352 CXLIIL CYPERACER. [ Cyathochete. 
synonym ; Tetralepis dps went Syn. Glum. ii. 159 ; Chetospora 
avenacea, T. ll. Fra Esas 
2 ft. long. Lower leaves no ot seen; upper ones with endi half-open 
very enti third Toe and a fifth or even a sixth ea pogy nous 
i R. 
Spreng. Syst. i. 197. I Okatupora diandra, F. Muell. Fragm. ix. 89 
C » S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Wells, dt 
alvert. 
18. SCHGENUS, Linn. 
(Cheetospora R. Br. Isoschoenus and Helothrix, Nees. Gymnochxta, Steud.) 
Spikelets aciei pend panieulate or solitary, with 2 or gar 
(rarely 6) flowers, RN hermaphrodite e: a or the upperm 
G 
1 empty, the Thais ba nen e" Pamies between the empty ait 
. mens 3 or very rarely : 
rarely slightly thickened towards the base, deciduous; stigm 
branches 3, filiform, sometimes almost plumose. Nut obovoid ov 
smooth re eulate foveolate or tuberculate.—Us lly perennials, the 
stems often rigid and leafless below the inflorescence 
radical or at the base of t em, narrow or sub * 
brown sheaths, or in a few species the stem leafy, eithert em 
rigid or short and ifo d Spikelets W 
subtended by glume-like brata, and the outer bracts of the pa 6 
us an involucre with or without leaflike lamine; when panica: 
the peduncles spikelets or branches of the panicle clustered wi within 
