Chorisandra, | CXLII. CYPERACER. 345 
most narrow and more entire. Stamens about 12, alternating with 
the scales.— Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 84; F. Muell. Fragm. ix ix. 18. 
Victoria, Hopkins River, F. Mueller. 
Tasmania. Wet places near George-town, Gunn. 
S. ^re Lofty Range, F. Mueller ; Port Lincoln, S. M. B 
W. Aus King George's 's Sound and T A aE F. Mu ello > Muir, 
Quia i sm n. 176 riae River, Preiss, n. 1867, 1869; Port Gregory, 
Beeckeler in Linn»a, xxxvi 2, unites this with the C. pendere: from 
Which it differs in the Ks ace i stems, the shape of the glumes, 
3. C. multiarticulata, Nees in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, v 
Stems from a thick creeping rhizome 1 to 14 ft. high, icon or less 
marked with transverse septa, sometimes ever and very ippa 
Sometimes fewer and faint. Leaves few, often as long as the 
stem, the others short or all reduced to aes ee sheaths. Spikelets 
ei obular, sessile, the bract Pipes uus the stem not at all or scarcely 
dilated at the base. Glum broad, the outer ones orbicular, 
very obtuse, entire or "r “slightly denticulate ciliate. Flowers flat- 
tened, but not so much as in C. spherocephala. Hypogynous scales as 
Jong as the glum me, 2 sates ones broadly spathulate, complicate, with 
ciliate keels; about 12 inner ones spathulate, entire or scarcely denti- 
culate, the innermost narrower. Stamens about as many as scales and 
alternate with them 
W. Australia. "A River, Drummond, lst coll. ; also n, 198 and 356. 
ui Sorrow II. Crmpanrza.——Spikelet ovoid-globular, half-immersed in 
dilated base of the involucral bract. Floral scales all oblong- 
Spathulate and slightly concave. 
ig c. cymbaria, R. Br. Prod. 221.—Stems from a thick creeping 
see 2 to 3 ft. high or even more, rigid, rush-like, more or less 
s tinctly marked with transverse septa. Leaves few, erect, terete and 
syam often longer than the stem, with long loose open sheaths or 
et 
ena erect but half immersed in the dilated base of the erect 
cra 
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mun ad a alternating with the apg scales (or opposite the 
T ones). ee 1} lines diameter, with about 8 
bord prominent Gece bs.—F. Mue ell. axes ix. 18. 
N. Brisbane vue ponds Bay, F. Mueller, Leichhardt, Bailey. 
Pea seth Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 28, Woolls ; near Cape Howe, 
unip and Tabernacle — Gipps' iat E Ate 
MES Drummond, n. 388. These specimens in fruit and 
nare. -— ENUM seen are in flower only, but all appear to belong to one species, 
a very zone one is in the Isles of Pines, New Caledonia. 
