342 CXLIII. CYPERACE X. [Seirpodendron. 
Spikelets ovoid, 4 to 5 lines long, 2 to 3 lines diameter. Glumes 
closely imbricate, very broad and thin, many-nerved and readily splitting 
into as many shreds. Scales as long, apparently more than 6 besides 
the 2 outer complicate ones or bracteoles, but splitting so readily that 
I have been unable to ascertain their number. Stamens 6 or in one 
flower examined 7; anthers very long. Nut ovoid conical or nearly 
p 4 io 6 lines diameter, with 6 to 10 very prominent thick 
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Thw. Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 346, according to Kurz. 
Queensland. Daintree River, Fitzalan. 
The na specimen seen in herb. F. Mueller consists only of an inflorescence vith 
ripe nuts, but it agrees very well with some of the Archipelago ones from which I 
e ipti i i alf-rotten state 
; 12. LEPIRONIA, Rich. 
(Chondrachne, R. Br.) 
Spikelet solitary, lateral, with numerous hermaphrodite flowers. 
Glumes closely imbricate all round the rhachis, concealing the floral 
. Flowers flat. Hypogynous. sc 
numerous, 2 outer ones (bracteoles ?) placed right and left, complicate, 
the keel ciliate, the others narrow, fiat or nearly so, closely pac ed 
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The genus is limited to the single Australian species, which extends over the 
MAN Paps ud parts of East India and Midagan. The other species 1 
to the 2 by Miquel belong to Mapania (Pandanophylium) as now cO at 
tuted, which s in habit and in the reduced number of hypogynous scales 
Rich. in Pers. Syn. i. 70.—Rhizome creeping 
varying from 1 to 3 lines in thickness, 7!" 
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appearanee, enclosed at the base by a few bir loose sheathing scales; 
otherwise leafless, Spikelet apparently lateral, in the axil of an erect 
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and 4 in. long to oblong-fusiform and above l4 in. long, from 
pale brown to almost black and shining. ior dE numerous; 
