Lepidosperma.] CXLIII. CYPERACEA, 389 
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perfect one. umes acute or obtuse 
and shortly mucronate, 3 or 4 outer empty ones gradually shorter. 
Seales under the nut short and acute, 1 or 2 sometimes setiferous.— 
uell. Fragm. ix. 24. 
W. Australia, Drummond, n. 346; Darling Range, Preiss, n. 1762; King 
Out Sound, F. Mueller ; Karri Dale, Walcot ; Blackwood and Canning Rivers, 
SERIES 2. LoNGITUDINALES.—Stems flattened but very convex on 
both sides and sometimes hollow. Panicle narrow and dense, spike- 
like or with erect spikelike branches. 
8 t 
ones shorter. Scales under the nut narrow but thick, often tapering 
lamina rarely exceeding 1 in. Spikelets crowded, 24 to 3 lines long, 
with 1 rarely 2 barren flowers besides the perfect one. Glumes acute 
or acuminate, 2 or 3 outer empty ones rather shorter. Scales very 
Small when in flower, thickened but not so much enlarged under the 
io as in most species and narrow, not setiferous.-—Nees in Pl. Preiss. 
Queensland. Brisbane River, Bailey ; Pine River, Eades. 
DM ‘ Pet. sa RD Brown; Blue Mountains, Woolls; New 
England, C. Stuart, also in Leichhardt's collection. 
Victoria. Glenelg River, Robertson. 
- Australia, Drummond ; Swan River, Preiss, n. 1758, 1764. 
8. L longitudinale, Zabill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 16, t. 13.—Stems 3 
