— Elynanthus.) CXLII. CYPERACER, 377 
known to me but probably not a oungenet, ful is bees as having linear-filiform 
leaves with revolute margins. Spikelet a terminal irregularly decompound 
cluster, with 2 or 3 involueral ino 3 ^ 6 ir in. E. Glumes 7, 3 or 4 outer empty 
LS long-lanceolate acuminate, uppermost 1 or 2 also empty but small and 
ie me e intermediate ones floriferous. Stamens 8 or 9. Style Sulcus at the 
ase 
l. E. octandrus, Nees in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, vi. 48, and in Pl. 
Preiss. ii. wir ems from a thick bulblike es l to 2 ft. high, 
angular, leafy. Lives flat but narrow, rigid, tapering into long 
subulate points, the radieal ones with short open sheaths, those on the 
stem few, distant, with long close sheaths, passing ee the floral bracts. 
Spikelets in dense clusters or oblong heads of } in. or more, several 
W. Australia. King George’s Sound to Swan inse F. Mueller, Muir, Drum- 
mond, lst coll., Preiss, n. $020 1771, Oldfield ye other: 
Z 2. E. capillaceus, Benth.—Stems filiform, 4 to 14} ft. long, ier 
C PESEpO i MO long sheath at the base, either truncate or with 
3etaceous lamina or point. Panicle small and narrow, the spikelets 3 or 
e 
He y: bracts with short subulate points. Spikelets very narrow, 
H to 2 lines long. lumes acute or acuminate, 3 or 4 outer empty 
Nat rather shorter. Flowers usually only one fertile. Stamens 3. 
À eu crowned by the ovoid persistent base of the style as long as 
itself as n Caustis.— Chetospora ge Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 81, 
t ALA; C. capillaris, F. Muell. Fragm. ix. 34. 
T ia. Curdie's Inlet, Walter ; base of Mount Abrupt, Sullivan. 
Ba asmania. Hospital Bay, South Huon River, Oldfield ; Southport, C. Stuart; 
y of Fires, DBissil 
w. tiie Point Henry, Oldfeld. Possibly some error in the label. 
On e; examining more than a dm ong from different specimens I ha 
table to detoct an any trace of the 3 hypogynous scales d o the plate, ER 
Must be very exceptional o; pana some mistake of the artist 
20. MESOMELZENA, Nees. 
(Gymnoschenus, sap 
Spikelets numerous in a dense head enclosed within the sheaths = 
the involucral bracts, with 2 flowers, de upper one fertile, the low 
