Mesomelena. | CXLIII. CYPERACER. 379 
F. Muell. Fragm. ix. 36; AMesomelena Preissii, Nees, in Pl. Preiss. ii. 
88 ; Lepidosperma uncinatum, Nees, l. c. ii. 93. 
W. Australia. King George's Sound, R. Brown and others, and thence to 
Swan River, Drummond 1st. coll. and n. 251, 894, Preiss, n. 1760, 1761, 1777, 1786, 
1791; Murchison River, Oldfield. E r ee 
The northern specimens are generally taller and stouter than those from King 
George's Sound, the spikelets often 4 lines long, the glumes sometimes with broad 
hyaline margins. The lamine of the outer bracts very variable. 
2 Va 2. M, deusta, Benth.—Stems densely tufted on a horizontal rhizome, 
rigid, 6 in. to 1 ft. high. Leaves much shorter, all radical with open 
head ovoid or turbinate, i to i in. ute s 2, ct, the 
sheaths as long as the spikelets, black and rigid with scarious hyalin 
margins, and erect leafy points, $ o e outer bract 
dark-coloured. Glumes not strictly distichous, 4 or 5 empty ones 
nearly of the same length, the pubescent keels ending in short points, 
rather longer and more obtuse on the outer ones, the inner ones with 
ensland. Brisbane River, Bailey. ; 
N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, A. Cunningham and many others; New 
England, C. Stuart, ©. Moore ; Beronda Station, Leichhardt. 
hermaphrodite. Glumes obscurely distichous, 1 or 2 outer empty ones 
i "Ing to rigid dark-coloured points, the sides broadly membranous 
Closely enveloping each other, the outer flowering one brown in the 
"ind With broad almost hyaline margins closely wrapped round the 
ers, the inner glume round the fertile flower exceedingly thin. 
