382 CXLIII. CYPERACER. 
22. TRICOSTULARIA, Nees, 
(Discopodium, Steud.) 
Spikelets in a spikelike or loose or much-branched paie with | to 
8 flowers, the upper one fertile, the lower sterile or male or deficient, 
stem. "Spikelets rather ae sessile or pd rris or ra 
tered in the axils of sheathing bracts of which the lower ones hav 
sometimes leaflike lamin, or rari billy paniculate. : 
Besides the Australian species which are endemic, there is one in Cey po 
another in Borneo. The nut is nearly that of Schænus, but p flowers w s 
than one are close together without the more or less flexuose rhachis charact 
of Schenus, and it is the terminal not the lower one which is specially fertile. 
loo: leafy. Leaves linear or 
at e, è chieti “radical Spikelets 2 to 24 lines, 
oe e 3 flow 1. T. paludosa. 
ey of 2 or Pvn spikelets, ers shortly : 
subulate or redu ced to sheathing : 2. T. pauciflora. 
Segre short and spikelike, Spikelote. mi eee ‘No 
ves besides the sheathing scales at the base of the 
Spikelets ec eet scarcely 2 lines. Outer bracts 
ines l acq compressa. 
capta sche fully 2 lines, Outer bracts erect, 6 
9 lines long 
4. 7. Nesi. 
Panicle compound, “rather dense, spreading. Spikelets 
us, cluster pad 1 “flowered, Hi to 2 lines s bes. i des 
vane radical, lin . 5. T. fimbristyloiaes. 
T. paludosa, Benth—Stems slender, rather weak, 6 i she 
tt. hi gh. Leaves at the base of the stem much shorter, itin fé 
to the 
the axils of cmd mm the lower bracts distant with Pls linear- 
Nut ovoid, finely meng smooth or ane aranular— 
paludosu, R. am 33; F. ~ ell. Fragm. ix 
Toan oreton Bay, F. 
S. Wales. gp Jackson, Pe Brown, F. Mueller, Gulliver. 
