Lepironia.] CXLIII. CYPERACES. 343 
nd sho 
flat, the anthers and style-branches only shortly protruding from under 
the ue Hypogynous scales toe about 16 (said to be 8 only in 
Some extra-Australian specimens), the two outer complicate ones or 
braeteoles with a ciliate keel, the others buo or oblong-linear, shorter 
than the glume. Stamens 8 or more, alternating with the inner scales 
or opposite the outer ones, apparently variable in number. Style 
glabrous. Nut flat, broadly ovate or almost orbicular, rounded at the 
end or almost acute, smooth or nearly so, without the longitudinal ribs 
of Chorisandra.—Kun th, Enum. ii. 366 ; Miq. Ill. Fl. Archip. Ind, t. 
m. F. Muell. Fein: ix. 17; Chonibvaalne aPticutatà, R. Br. Prod. 
Queensland. East Coast, R. Brown; Moreton Bay and environs, M'Gillivray, 
F, ea, Leichhardt, Bailey. 
N.S. Wales. Port a a tee R. Brown ; Richmond River, Mrs. Hodgkinson. 
Some of the Australian specimens ihe remarkable for their very large almost black 
ne Mage et, in others it is lig M brown and — as in the majority of Asiatic 
ar at first sight pem mblance to the Restiaceous genus 
j vee in vila. afl He Goria the cb structure, the spikelet is more 
strictly terminal and erect. 
13. CHORISANDRA, R. Br. 
ipkeleis (or heads) solitary, lateral, with numerous herp 
Wers (or andro ga spikelets). Glumes bia mbricate 
or more, alternating with the inner or opposite the outer scales. Style 
eeply divided into 2 stigmatic branches. Nut biconvex or 
ves rk at the base of the stem, lon ng terete and stem-like, or all 
reduced to sheathing scales. Spikelet globular or ovoid. 
The genus is endemic in Australia with the exception of one species which extends 
to New Ca Caledonia. The typical section is closely allied to Lepironia with which 
ich to u it essential structure of the spikelet is the same 
is well as the general h e, the only differenc ooser 
Peete the glumes of the globular spikelet, the flowers not quite so flat and 
pea ing above or on a level with the glume, gi kelet the ap- 
ce of a globular head umerous small spikelets. a -— 
fere striking in the section Cymbaria in So the $ the 2 outer scales a are sipociy = 
the others and the ture mo memei 
Consider the spike as a head, the flowers as jan spikelets. Wn and the scales as razdh of 
which the majority have each a stamen in their axil the inner ones nes opty and the 
atral pistil ' asin any subtending F aie] But et te explanation of the structure 
