376 CXLIII. CYPERACES. [ Scheenus. 
leafy, forming floating masses often above 1 ft. long, the leaves as well 
as the branches more slender than in S. oh Spikelets solitary and 
teri al or with another lower down the branch or peduncle, = 
brown, very narrow linear, 2 lines long, with 2 flowers lun 
narrow, almost obtuse, one outer empty one rather shorter. Hypogy. š 
nous bristles 6 or eee rather longer than the nut, ciliate almost 
lumose. Stam ut small, ovoid, prominenti 3-ribbed, smooth 
ut cie d ed with a minute pubescent point. grea s 
natans, F. «t rame fii 
W. Australia, Drummond. 
por S. fluitans, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 81. ¢. 141 B.—Stems uu 
submerged, slender and weak, branched, leafy, forming short dense tufts 
in shallow stagnant water, or intricate floating masses 1 to 2 ft. long in 
s falling off from the ripe nut as in the rest of the gen d 
M neuly 1 line long, urn 3-ribbed, smooth but often ‘tippe 
ya minute pubescent point.—F. Muell. Fragm. i ix. 28. 
Tasmania. South Esk River, Gunn. 
ovoi 
19. ELYNANTHUS, Nees. 
Spikelets clustered in a narrow panicle, with usually 2 hermap pt 
dite wists close together on n a short not flexuose rhachis, both fer 
ase 
gmatie branches 3 or 4, filiform. Nut = 
crowned by the hard ovoid or oblong persistent base of ‘ile style, so 
times as as itself and either continuous with it or slig p n 
ri iris] rit. Perennials with the habit of the narrow pani 
irs South. Africa, t ihe iude of en pË Maris deri require revision. The 
nearl: 
and the style ee as in Caustis, 
Spikelets about 6 tines es long, densel t 
vindice in the axils of leafy b; eed a 6 to "me LE. octandrut 
Spikelets 14 to 2 lines ia few ee the 
sheathing braci Stamens 
E. revolutus, N Sami ee ee hives, f ae n "1769, is 
