Scheenus.] OXLIIL CYPERACEX. 371 
2 to 3 ft. high, but some specimens from various quarters marked as 
attaining 8 to 10 ft., leafless excepta brown sheath at the base more or 
^m bearded at the orifice, with a spreading obtuse rigid lamina of 1 to 
P 
hone or few and very short and unequal, rarely 1 as long as the nut. 
Stamens 3 or rarely 4. Nut obovoid, 3-ribbed, granular eee — 
Bockel. in Linnwa, xxxviii. 284; F, Muell. Fragm. ix. 29; Nees in 
Sieb. Agrostoth. n. 3. 
ome eensland. Rockingham Bay, Dallachy; Wide Bay, Leichhardt; Brisbane 
Iver, Bailey 
. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. INA. Woolls, and 
others ; north of Bathurst, v ring: New bag De C. Stua 
ustrali parently he me specie g George's Bii A. Cun- 
ningham, also n n: Illa 4 368. These specimens may, however, be rather 
referrible to S. fascicularis. The Phils group requires further study from the living 
E sag from specimens gathered in all the different stages of development of the 
41. S. sparteus, R. Br. Prod. 231.—Stems very slender but rigid, 
l to 2 ft, long, leafless except the brown sheaths at the base bearded 
at the orifice, with a short recurved subulate point rarely lengthened 
into a lamina of 2 or 3 in., and occasionally 1 or 2 similar sheaths with 
vm subulate laminze higher up the stem. Panicle narrow, loose, 1 
vi E iidem a flowe act oecasionally at some distance lower 
brown, hint 4 lines long, with about 3 flowers. Glumes acuminate or 
almost thai fringed with omit hairs or at my peoe, 5 or 6 
quer empty ones gradually shorter. ogynous bristles. 
Stamens A Nut ovoid or obovoid, obtusely Socata, ‘obscurely striate 
Smo 
N. 
arer rede o and 1 a er Denis May, al sien. Armitage without 
indication of the special station. 
tus, F. Muell. Herb.—Stems 1 to 2 ft. long (or more d 
4 S. vagina 
idle 8 except a few distant brown sheaths about } in. long, 
© orifice and bearmg usually an erect rigid narrow lamina of 4 to H 
the 
sheathing bracts like agri sheaths on the stem, the pee ones 
