Lepidosperma.) CXLIII, CYPERACER. 399 
filiform but rigid, 1 to 13 ft. high. Leaves few, much sor mostly 
reduced Spike 
sinple, gg veer, rarely above 1 in. we the rhachis vicem or r &oaroely 
Shea 
I Mount Srdliigton,  dippr T F. Mueller ; Curdies Inlet, 
Tasma Arthur’s Lake, Gunn; Brown River, Oldfield ; South Esk River, 
C. Stuart ; ami Story. 
and but ver Wes striate. es shorter, terete or Ls so. 
Panicle harrow and spikelike but interrupted, usually 3 or 4 in. long, 
the spikelets densely crowded on short branches in secondary ob- 
Scales scarcely perceptible ‘at the time of owering, narrow acuminate 
and not Er thick under the nut.—L. confine, Nees in Pl. Preiss. ii. 
; f. ll. Fragm. ix 
S W. Australia. Kin ing George’s Sound, R. Brown; Forest Hill, Muir; north o 
Rire Range, Maxwell; Swa » Ri iver, Preiss, n. 1794; : also rdi n. ” 259, via 
Specimens n. 257 may be a arge stout form with the panicle looser, its branches 
more developed, but the flow: e in too young a state to poe aes Brown’s 
tpm are in ME with the Howe = e r branches of the p e rather long, 
in PIRA Bre quite smooth, slightly grooved on one side but not "sinc striate as 
scabrum, Teg selections of the specifi cim is therefore unfor 
^s Beckeler, Linnga, xxxviii. 329, unites this species with the Z. chinense, Nees, which 
i to the Chinese se p 
lt ét Kunth, Enum. ii. 319. — Stems slender but rigid, 
o 24 ft. high, angular or terete and grooved on one side. Leaves 
lamina or point nearly as long as the inflorescence. Spikelets — 
G1» 23 to 25 ins s oni with 1 barren flower besides the preter o 
: lumes narro or acuminate, 2 or 3 outer empty or e rator 
