400 CXLIII. CYPERACES. [ Lepidosperma. 
shorter. Scales under the nut ovate, acuminate and sometimes shortly 
setiferous.—F. Muell. Fragm. ix. 27; L. tetragonum, Nees in Sieb. 
Agrostoth. n. 49, not of Labillardiére. 
N.S. Wal Port Jackson, F. Mueller, Woolls, eT 
— Streletzki Para and Wilson’s promontory, F. Mueller. 
F. Mueller, Fragm. ix. 24, refers some of the specimens with r denser 
spikelike goose to the New Zealand L. enr ice Hook. f., but besides some mi ; 
rh that species has never (in a ber of pir. I have examined) 
ond barren flower, which T have found in all the Australian ‘specios of 
abeam 
35. L. carphoides, F. T Herb.—Stems slender, terete, e d 
grooved on one side, about t. high. ae similar but shor 
in short sessile partial spikes. Sheathin g bracts usually as long as me 
enclosed partial spikes, rigid, Stig acute or produced into a subula e 
pai or short lamina. Spikelets Aing black, 4 to 5 lines long, Hr 
n flower besides the perfect one. Glumes narrow, rigid, acutely 
sit adie or almost aristate, diudly 2 ' outer empty ones, the lowe 
rather shorter. Scales under the nut ovate-lanceolate acuminate.— 
L. striatum, F. Muell. Fragm. ix. 27, not of R. Br. 
vi ia. SUR River, Robertson ; Portland Bay and Grampians, F. Mueller ; 
Moyston, Sullivan Point, 
o 
o 
S. Australia. St. Vincent's Gulf, F, Mueller, Blandourki; Boston 
Wilhelmi, Port Lincoln, S. F. Browne. 
W. Australia. King George's Sound, Menzies ; Point Henry, Oldfield. 
24. CLADIUM, P. Br. 
(Baumea, Gaudich. Chapelliera, Nees.) 
Spikelets variously paniculate, with 1 to 3 hermaphrodite flowers hi 
usually the lowest alone fertile. Glumes few, imbricate all rou" i 
to 3 or very rarely 4 outer ones empty, and usually a small one 4 the 
the perfect flower, either empty or with an imperfect kiero 
flowering glume not shorter than the outer empty on y deos 
ous bristles. Stamens 3 or rarely fewer. Style deciduous, uec 
Leaves, either terete, and continuous or marked with irate 
verse septa, or vertically flattened, very rarely with the inve 
margins of eben. 
The genus in its typical form extends tropical te regions as 
MR Mews end Or A acne but defende erupit or at 4t cost three 
