346 CXLII. CYPFRACER. [ Ohorisandra. 
e 
ogynous scales or bristles when present filiform or flat. 
14. OREOBOLUS, R. Br. 
Spikelet 1-flowered. Glumes 3, imbricate. Hypogynous pes 
Besides the Australian species, which is also in New Zealand, there is one from. 
Antarctic and Andine South America, closely allied to it. 
pe ceola 
long as the nut, and often persistent after it has fallen away. | " 
ovoid-oblong, obtuse.—Kunth, Enum. ii. 367; Boeckel in we 
xxxviii. 230 (misspelt Oreobulus) ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 94; F- 3 pe 
Fragm. ix. 20; O. distichus, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Soe. Vict. 1 d 
and in Hook. Kew Journ. viii. 335; O. pectinatus, Hook. f. Fl. 
Victoria. Summits of all the Alps from Mounts Baw-baw and Buller to Mount 
Kosciusko, F. Mueller. +42 of all the 
Tasmania. Table Mountam (Mount Welhngton), R. Brown ; summits 
mountains at an elevation of 3000 to 5000 ft., J. D. Hooker. ree 
This genus is always characterised after Brown as having two glumes with | 
without a si i scale. Inallt i ume 
Victoria, Now Zealand and South America, I have invariably found three € Sect 
ovary the mi tly intermediate in 51 
between the first and the third. The Ne een differs ei m the Aus 
tralian one in the leaves never distichous, with thicker broader sheathing bases, 
specimens from Tasmania, as well as in some Victorian 
