888 CXLITI. CYPERACE X. [Lepidosperma 
leaves the same. Panicle larger and looser, very compound, 6 in. to 
above 1 ft. long, the branches or partial panicles clustered in the 
sheathing bracts, but more or less peduneulate and the glumes much 
more mucronate or acute. 
WV. Australia. Drummond, n. 273, 275; King George's Sound and as ap. 
coast, Muir and others ; Blackwood River, Oldfield and others. Possibly a variety © 
L. gladiatum but the differences constant in all the specimens from the various 
collectors. 
L. rupestre, Benth.—Stems 2 or 3 ft. high, 3 to 5 lines broad, 
8. 
with broad acute flat margins and a raised centre as in L. gla tatum 
and leaves the same. Panicle broad, very compound, 3 to 4 in, long 
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ally shorter. Bristles or scales minute or scarcely conspicuous at t 
Pd Australia. Rocks, Murchison River, the stems very sweet-scented, 
ld field. 
4. L. elatius, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holi. i. 15, t. 11.—8tems 3 to § 
: : g glu nd 
hyaline at the time of owering, thiekened, act ucro but not "i 
. Br. Prod. 234; Kunth, 
Enum. ii.316; Beeckel. in innæa, xxxviii. 316 ; Hook. f. Fl. atn 
90; F. Muell. Fragm. ix. 25; Chetospora concava, Nees in Ann. 
Hist. ser. 1, vi. 47. 
Victoria. On the Yarra, Sullivan ; Dandenong and Disappointment Moun 
F. Mueller ; Mount Macedon, Walter, in damp soil 
Derwent River, R. Brown; common in forests and in damp 
throughout the island, J. D. Hooker. 
To ie Nees in Pl. Preiss. ii. 90 —Stems stout, a 
, Sor 4 ft. to twice that height, flat but thick, with 4 acute qur 
Leaves similarly thick and 4 angled, dilated at the base into à "i ft. 
sheath. Panicle loose and very compound, pyramidal, 6 in. t0 © 
