Mesomelæna.] CXLIII. CYPERACEA. 381 
cephala, but too young for accurate description in our specimens.— 
Chelospora anceps. R. Br. Prod. 233 hætospora re Nees in PI. 
Preiss. ii. 275; ft. elongata, F. Muell. Fr ragm. ix. 30. 
W. Australia. Ki ing George's Sound and peg abo E < districts, R. Brow 
Drummond, n. 267, Preiss, n. 1560, F. Mueller and oth A more Select 
series of specimens may prove this to bea variety only of M. eter ed : 
21. CARPHA, R. Br. partly. 
Spikelets in a loose terminal cluster or cor ymb, or in a species 
not Australian, in a long panicle, with 1 flower. Glumes several, dis- 
tichous, membranous, pale brown, the outer empty ones gradually 
short ypogynous bristles 6, long, plumose, spreading and pap- 
pus-like Lol the fi Stamens 3. Style branches 3. Nut ene 
ngie 
eeN leafy at the base 
Besides the Australian species, which is also in New Zealand, there is one nearly 
allied to itin Antarctic and Chilian South America, and a third with a different habit 
but a Congener in essential characters in New Caledonia. Frown, aueisded five 
e 
in which the glumes are not distichous now form the genus Cyathocheta, and the 
fourth in habit as bts as in the orega vite! other characters appears to be better 
placed in Mesomele 
l. C, alpina, R. Br. Prod. 230.—Stems under 6 in. high in high 
alpine situations, attaining 1 ft. when luxuriant. Leaves at the base 
hort i e or concave, 3 to 1i 
only and mu rter, rather rigid, obtuse, flat oneave, i to 14 
lines broad, wit membranous open sheathing bases. Cory 
tial clusters loose and shortly peduneulate. Involucral bracts usually 
2, leaflike and longer than the infloresce er ones smaller 
narrow and more glumelike. Spikelets flat, lanceolate, pale-coloured, 
varying from 4 lines in the smaller specimens to 6 s long 
luxuriant o Glumes usually 4, distichous, son, very thinly mem- 
branous or almost hyaline but rather rigid Bus the outer ones 
much shorter, and above the flower a small narrow empty glume. Hy- 
269; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 84 ; Hook. p "PL ja 1216; Magi "arid 
alpina, na Syst. i. 195; Carpha nivicola, F. Muell. in Trans. 
Phil. Soc. Viet. i. 111. sud i in Hook. Kew Journ. viii. 335; Cheetospora 
alpina, F. Muell. Fragm. ix. 39. 
Victoria, Hardinge = Range c Md 
g, Tasmania, Table M untain (Mount Wellington) R gie Un a 
mountains aan clevation of 4000 ga 5000 ft., J. D. Hooker. 
Also in New Zealand. 
