370 CXLIIL CYPERACEJ. [Schaenus. 
the margins, about 5 outer empty ones gradually shorter. Hypogy wei 
bristles 6 or fewer, very unequal, one frequently as long as the nut i 
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W. Australia. King George's Sound, R. Brown ; Swan River, Preiss, n. 1802, 
also Drummond, 1st coll. and n. 105, 911, 912. 
This and the following two species appear to pass almost gradually into the - 
melanostachyus, but can scarcely be united with it as varieties. 
bearing an erect subulate point of 1 to 2 or rarely 8 lines iras 
er , harrow, dense, turned to one side, 1 to 2 . lon Spi oe 
clustered, but or most of them very shortly pedicellate, narrow; 
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with 2 or 3 lowers. Glumes scarcely ciliate, 5 or 6 outer e i puit 
gradually shorter. Hypogynous bristles none or rarely 1 shor ? 
Stamens 3. Nut not seen. 
W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, 1st. coll. and n. 110. 
rm he :cle rather 
on-short peduncles, the lower clusters distant, or the pauicie bracts 
more compound with the lower branches elongated. Sheathing br? 3x 
: s 
to 4 outer empty ones shorter and more obtuse. No bypogy ce 
bristles. Stamens 3. Nut obovoid, scarcely rugose.—F. Muell. Frag" 
x. 29; Sieb. Agrostoth. n, 7, 
; - Near Brisbane, Bailey. Ü. 
W. M. Wales. Pu Jacks to the Hino Mountains, R. Brown, Woolls 
Moore, and others; Hastings River, Bechler, h Island, 
daresi Port Phillip, Lachmann ; near Brighton, F. Mueller ; Frenc 4 
Lå . T ion! 
S. Australia. S. brachyphylius, F. Muell., from Mount Lofty Ranges T - 
by F. Muell. Fragm. ix, 29, under 5, melanostachyus, appears to me to be qui 
tical with S. órevifolius, Qidfeld s 
: King G 's So . Brown ; Murchison River, 
also in Drummond's collection, n 912. 7 Frown; Murehi 
22 S. melanostachyus, R, 5r. Prod. 23]. Stems terete, usually 
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