Sehonus.] CXLIIL, CYPERACER. 357 
SERIES I. MacnocEPHALZX.—Spikelets narrow, 5 to 6 lines long, 
sessile in a simple oblong or ovoid terminal head, with erect involucral 
l. S, cruentus, Benth.—Stems from a knotty almost bulbous 
base slender but rigid, 1 to 2 ft. high, Leaves at the base of the stem 
inner ones gradually more glume-like. Spikelets numerous, about 5 1n. 
long, with 2 or 3 lowers. Glumes membranous at the base, rigid at 
the end and acuminate, not fringed, outer empty ones usually 2, the 
lowest shorter, and a narrow empty one at the end of the rhachis. 
Ypogynous bristles 6, slender, not much longer than the nut. 
Stamens 3. Nut not seen ripe.—Chetospora cruenta, Nees in Pl. 
"emm ii. 85; Beeckel. in Linnsa, xxxviii. 203; F. Muell. Fragm. 
x. 3T. 
W. Australia. King George's Sound and adjoining districts, Preiss, ne 1790, 
Drummond, n. 108, 253, F. Mueller. 
This species is the nearest approach to Mesomelena in aspect, but the flexuose 
thachis, the bristles, the slender deciduous style, etc. are quite those of Schenus 
(Chetospora), 
Spikelets sessile and densely crowded, narrow-lanceo 6 to 8 lines 
long, with abo t 5 flowers. Glumes lanceolate, acutely acuminate, the 
Esto ually shorter but only 1 empty. ogynous bristles 
er ones gr Hi 
6, Ciliate especially dou: the base, aboutas long as the nut. Stamens 
TN Nut obovoid, very obtuse, rugose.—Chelospora compressa, Nees in 
E L Mioa ii.85; Bæckel. in Linnea, xxxviii. 291; F. Muell. Fragm. 
w. Australia, Swan River, Drummond, 1st coll. and n, 906; Preise, n. 1782. 
3. S. lanatus, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 19, t. 20.—Stems slender, 
6 to9 in. high. Leaves shorter, at the base of the stem, subulate, the 
sheaths bearded at the orifice with woolly hairs. Spikelets few, in au 
oblong terminal head or cluster, within black involucral: bracts, the 
lowest and sometimes the next also produced into a long erect. | 
lamina, the sheathing base woolly at the orifice. Spikelets narrow, 
