384 CXLIII. CYPERACEJE. [Tricostularia. 
but the lower one sterile. Hypogynous rei very short. Nut 
obovoid, with 3 ribs very prominent on the and sometimes slightly 
pubescent, eet at the base, but not distinctly stipitate. —Che- 
tospora Neesii, Boeckel. in Linnea, xxxviii. 2 7; F. Muell Fragm. 
ix. 
W. Australia, Drummond, n. 329, 356, mi Preiss, n. 1728; Swan River, 
Miss ameet Blackwood River, Olapela Mrs. Hard 
Var. elatior. Stems — “ ft. high or more. E 14 to 2 in. long. Outer 
Ds bc bracts striate, 4 in. long, eS atm a 
Discopodium Drummondii, Syn. Glum, ii. Pen includes this and the pre- 
species, 
T. fimbristyloides, Benth.—Stems from a thick rhizome 1 js 
ft. Js striate or angular. Leaves at the base only, shorter than 
O ones m 
glumelike. Spikelets in clusters of 2 to 6, narrow, brown, 13 to 2 kei 
ong, 1-flowered, the rhachis not elongated.  Glumes m embranone 
acute, obseurely distichous, 2 outer empty ones, the lowest shorter pos x 
more acuminate, and close above the flower a narrow empty 87 
loidos F.M uell. F ragm. i 
Austr . Near mines Hill, F. Mueller ; Port Ess d i, A ae 
This species is very nearly allied to the Cla ie oisi Thw. E Jon, and to 
353 (Lepidosperma zeylanicum, Boeckel. in Linnæa, xxxviii. 332) from Cerio, gen. 
E 
are never any traces of hypogynous bristles. The Coda o 
of some ien of Rhynchospora and Scleria, rather than of Fimbristylis. 
dick 
c 
gynous bristles are usually minute but rigid, they do not however grow ciet 
scales as in y eso 
23. LEPIDOSPERMA, Labill. e: 
Spikelets paniculate, sessile, scarcely flattened, with 2 or mo 
flowers, the upperm ne alone fertile, or rarely only 1 flower, the deo 
ry sh es almost dis tichous, several or only 1 or 
Hyposy 
on, usually vote like or very thin and hy: kened 
minute at the time En flowe ering, enlarge ed. under the fruit, "- : 
white and almost spon 
in 
or 5. Sgir slender and cr i with 3 T rarely 4 ae or 
stigmatic. branches. Ov vary cro steams by a thick he misphert 
