Schenus.] CXLIII. CYPERACER. 369 
ft. much compressed or grooved on one side, the sheathing scales at the 
in S. scabri 
rigid but smooth. . Spikelets narrow and acute, scarcely compressed, 
+ to ] in. long though scarcely fully out, with 2 flowers. Glumes ob- 
tuse with short obtuse glandlike points as in S. scabripes, but about 10 
to 12 outer ones empty and gradually shorter. No hypogynous bris- 
tles. Stamens3. Nut not seen. 
W. Australia, King George's Sound, Oldfield ; Albany, F. Mueller, 
35. S. efoliatus, F. Muell. Fragm. ix. 32.--Stems rather slender, 
rushlike, terete and slightly striate, 1 to 2 ft. high, leafless except the 
close-sheathing seales at the base with very short obtuse ereet points, 
the sheathing floral braets distant, narrow, with very short or without 
int 
. mpty ones 
gradually shorter, the lowest 2 very short. No hypogynous bristles. 
mens 3. Nut obovoid, obtusely 3-angled, smooth. 
W. Australia, King George's Sound and Stirling Range, F. Mueller ; Kalgan 
River, Oldfield, 
anceolate, acute, flat, 4 to 5 lines long, with usually 2 flowers. Glumes 
, With whitish margins, not ciliate, about 5 outer empty ones gra- 
dually shorter. No ogynous bristles, Nut (aloose one in herb. Br.) 
obovoid-oblong, very obtuse, obtusely 3-angled at the base, quite smooth. 
W. Australia, King George's Sound, R. Brown, 
SERIES VIII. PaxrcvnATA.—Spikelets under i in. long, usually 
dark brown or black, often faleate, al! pedunculate, either numerous in 
a panicle usually secund, or few in a terminal cluster 
arded at the orifice, and often bearing a subulate or terete lamina of 
2102 in. Spikelets few in a terminal cluster and frequently another 
Cluster a little lower down, in the axils of very short bracts, all dis- 
“nctly pedicellate, linear-lanceolate, often faleate, slightly compressed, 
dark brown, 5 to 6 lines long, with 3 to 6 flowers. cc iliate on 
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