Scheenus.] CXLIII. CYPERACE®. ' 359 
globular, 4 to 5 lines diameter. Involucral bracts 2 or 3, subulate, 
spreading, slightly dilated and striate at the base, the bracts within 
the head glume-like but rigid and striate. Spikelets very numerous, 
sessile, narrow, about 2 lines long, with 2 or 3 flowers. Glumes acute 
or mucronate, keeled, striate, dark brown, only one empty outer one or 
even all flowering. No hypogynous bristles. Stamens 3. Nut ovoid, 
prominently 3-angled, smooth, ; 
W. Australia: King George's Sound, Menzies (Herb, Hook.) 
. 7. S. Drummondii, Benth—Stems slender, 1 to lg ft. high. 
Leaves few, at the base of the stem, very much shorter, subulate, the 
sheaths glabrous.  Flower-head globular, 3 to 4 lines diameter, and in 
One specimen a second head below the terminal one. Involucral 
rae i ery 
ypogynous bristles 6 or fewer, longer than the nut and ciliate with a 
few long hairs, or sometimes all very small. Stamens 3. Nut ovoid, 
prominently 3-angled, smooth and shining, at length very dark 
coloured or almost black.—Chetospora nitens, var. ? R. Br. Herb: ; 
C. microstachya, Nees in Pl. Preiss. ii. 84 ; Boeckel. in Linnea, xxxviii. 
295; F. Muell. Fragm. ix. 37 (a name preoceupied in Scheenus) ; 
Gymnochete Drummondi, Steud. Syn. Glum. ii. 156. 
. Australia. King George's Sound and adjoining districts, R. Brown, Drum- 
mond, n, 114, 333, F. Mueller. 
The spikelets are nearly those of S. nitens, but much smaller, very much more 
ec mig a terminal head with several bracts, not thrown to one side by the 
-e empty e above Hypogyn S 
Tizid, rather longer than the nut, ciliate especially below the middle. 
Stamens 3. Nut obovoid, prominently 3-ribbed, minutely Im , 
