Cyathochete. | OXLIII. CYPERACER. 851 
The genus is endemic i a Australia and mogh technically allied to Carpha and 
Mesomelena it is widely different in habit. ees in c x. 300, n. the genus in 
Warten species 1. € clandestina. 
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sheath. Western . 2. C. avenacea. 
Ban about 2 ft, Spikelets. Monk d in. + dong, s several in 
ach sheath. Eastern species. . . 3. €. diandra. 
clandestina, Benth.—Stems terete, attaining 7 or 8 ft. Leaves 
cw at iin base, often above 1 ft. long, xm a sheaths of 2 
stem, the uppermost gradually shorter with short points. Spikelets 
usually 2 within each sheath and scarcely protruding from it or 1 on a 
longer quinis each one nearly 2 in. long, narrow and scarcely 
ened. Glumes about 4, not distichous, the 2 outer empty ones 
Shorter, . Hypogynous bristles 4, rigid, xn than the d UMS 
almost plumose below the middle. Stam s 2, the filam 
With 2stigmatie branches. Nut oblong, crowned by the hardened base 
E NU lint seen fully formed.—Carpha clandestina, R. Br. 
d. 231 ; Rhynchospora Mete Spreng Syet. 1:294; oras 
Cobain F. Muell. Fragm 
ps W. Australia. King s 8 Eu R. Brown; Wilson's Inlet, Old- 
be 2. C. sihi vin Benth,—Stems rigid, attaining 2 ft. or more, terete 
d hi en nee. Leaves at the base of the stem shorter, erect, 
with | incurved or eee margins e ending in long linear 
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State, thes outer empty ‘ones short Hypogynous bristles in the 
€tmaphrodite flower not very long, iiite at the base and none in the 
hardened base of 8 style but ‘ot seen Lae —Car Pee avenacen, Br. 
Prod, 20; ; Rhyne 
