402 OXLII. CYPERACER, ( Cladium. 
Section I, EvorapruM.—Panieles densely eorymbose. Flowers 
in the spikelet usually 2, one only or rarely both fertile, without any 
terminal empty glume or only a very minute one. Stem leafy through- 
out with flat leaves. 
1, C. mariscus, R, Br.; Kunth, Enum. ii, 303.—Stems 3 to 6 ft. 
high, terete, leafy throughout and often producing tufts of leaves or 
eafy branches from the upper axils. Leaves nearly erect, flat, the keel 
t 
empty glume. Stamens 2 or rarely 3. le-branches 3 or rarely 2. 
Nut nearly as long as the glumes, almost drupaceous, the exocarp thick 
especially the upper end and sometimes corky, the endocarp much 
shorter and hard.—Beeckel. in Linnsza, xxxviii, 232 ; Reichb. Ie. Fl 
Germ. t. 287; F, Muell. Fragm. ix. 14, 
Queensland. Rockhampton, Thozet ; Bowen Downs, Birch. 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson and Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Woolls and 
others, 
Victoria. Port Phillip, R, Brown ; Yarra River, Adamson, F, Mueller ; War- 
namboul, Sullivan, 
S. A 
ustralia. Tamunda, Behr z Lofty Range, Torrens River, P Mueller. 
Widely dispersed over the tropical regions of the New and the Old Ta 4 
over more temperate Asia and Europe, in North America replaced by a nearly 
species. 
SECTION I UMEA.—Panicles loose or thyrsoid or MS : 
Flowers in the spikelet solitary, or if 2 or 3 the lower one only fertile, 
with usually a small terminal glume either empty or with a agent 
ry flower. Leaves chiefly at the base of the stem, tere a 
or vertically flattened, or all’ reduced to sheathing scales (except ^ 
insulare ?). 
‘the oar general habit, i i in the structure 
of the spikelets, th habit, inflorescence, and to a certain degree in 
era 
ons. distribution of th ies between the two Et 
adopted by Beeckeler does not appear to mie: to: ba justifod either by r, 
