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364 OXLIIL. CYPERACER, [Schaenus. 
tralia. Drummond, n, 336. The spikelets in Drummond's specimens 
are either very young or old and injured, and some of the above characters ma 
require modification from more perfect specimens, 
20. S. nanus, Benth.—Dwarf and densely tufted but perhaps annual. 
Stems $ to li in. high. Leaves radical, filiform, shorter than the stem. 
Spikelets terminal, erect, 2 to 4 together, sessile or very shortly pedi- 
cellate between 2 involucral bracts, 1 often longer than the inflorescence. 
Spikelets narrow-lanceolate, flattened, 3 to 32 lines long, with 4 to 5 
one gynous bristles 6, shorter than the nut or afi 
longer, very shortly ciliate, not plumose. Stamens 3. Nut obovoid- 
b ribs scarcely prominent, obtuse, tubercular-rugose.— 
x. Australia. Mount Elphinstone, Preiss, n. 17635 N. of Stirling Range, F. 
ueller. 
21. S. pleiostemoneus, F. Muell. Fragm. ix. 52,—8Stems filiform, 
3 to 6 in. high, leafless except a brown slender sheath at the base, oblique 
tapering into a short erect point. Spikelet MA 
terminal, erect, the subtending bract glumelike but tapering in n3 
short point, the spikelet lauceolate, flattened, about 4 lines long, wit 9 
or 4 flowers. umes membranous, brown, acute, l or sometimes 4 
outer ones empty and shorter. No hypogynous bristles. Stamens ^ 
to6. Nut small, obovoid, 3-ribbed, tubercular-rugose, but not see 
quite ripe. 
W. Australia. Putingup, north of Stirling Range, Maxwell. 
2. S. breviculmis, Benth—A dwarf densely tufted eng t 
Stems when in flower shorter than the spikelets and rarely 1 in. t0 fs 
when in fruit. Leaves much longer, attaining 4 to 5 in., very jart 
flat or subulate, dilated at the base into a short open sheath, the Sr 1 
leaves often reduced to linear acute scales. Spikelets 2 (somete. 
or 3 ?), erect, with 1 long leafy braet under the lower one and ere 7 
2 under the upper one, the 2 spikelets close together, 6 to 7 lines m 
i s. Glumes narrow, thi y membranous alm "in 
hyaline, with a prominent acute keel, and no outer empty rM e 
the subtending bract. No hypogynous bristles. Stamens 3, with ften 
anthers. Nut nearly globular, slightly 3-angled, tuberculate and © 
minutely hispid. 
WV. Australia, Drummond. 
23. S. deformis, R. B Fito e 
long, mostly eurved. Leaves at the base of the stem with pem 
densely bearded at the orifice and short subulate lamine with fine 
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