Oreobolus. | CXLIII, CYPERACER. 347 
by F. Mueller on the Bogang range the leaves are certainly not x mw and these 
come very near to the American 0. aa rte sepii The hypogynous scales 
assume more the aspect of perianth-segm is genus than in any other, and 
indeed Steely resemble the perianths of poe or of Restiacee 
15. REMIREA, Aubl. 
peen small, densely capitate, ya a single terminal hermaphro- 
dite flow Glumes 4, the 2 outer ones imbricate, the third larger, 
mem branous enveloping the fourth which i is thick aud fleshy, enclosing 
the flow No hypogynous scales or bristles. Stamens 3. Style 
y 1 : 
continuous w ith the Wu not thickened at the base, deciduous ; stig- 
2 glumes, ovoid-tr iquetr us, often slightly compressed.—Low branching 
perennial. Leaves via with short imbricate sheathing bases. pret 
ets very nume id oe spikes solitary or clustered an 
ovo 
surrounded by leafy voa bra 
The genus is limited to the apas pen species, which is dispersed along the 
sandy sea-coasts of most tropical co 
R. maritima, 45]. Pi. Gui. i. 45, t. 16, var. pedunculata.— 
oi 
s several together sessile in a terminal head or cluster sur- 
"viae by 3 to 6 involucral braets, the longest 1 to 2 in. long. Spike- 
t very numerous, — usually about 2 lines long, subtended by a 
Stume-like bract. Low nii re short, p second longer, both broad 
Ls ds nut.—Bocke Li ORE s gati XXX . 435 ; R. pede neulata, R. Br. 
rod, 236, Kunth, Enum. ii. 139; F. Muell. Fragm. ix 0. 
A, c, sland. Abundant on the sandy sea-shores of the iic coast, R. Brown, 
unningham, Dallachy. 
the typical American e African and som 
an Specimens, as in majority of th 
mhe East oo es, the branches are le ay gehn or quite up to “the mvolural 
hye In Australian vari common in the Malayan 
from } (59 Seveloped. i in India, th sin fal is produced above the leaves to a — of 
iene. hg: near 3 in., but there is no erence in the structure 
gon and ds Indian specimens inguished Ty Nees under thy ume of 
an Mana, Wall. are quite intermediate, the peduncle varying from a line or two 
foan inch in length. The genus, often placed next to Kyla epe HE resembles in 
infaresconse, has been more appropriately removed by Bæckeler d'un, pei 
ted yne. a to which it is more nearly china cou adiret ns. 
