Cladium.] CXLLLI. CYPERAOE E, 403 
. C. insulare, Benth.—“ Leaves 5 to 6 ft. long; flower-stem 
2 ft. higher" (O. Moore). Panicle much-branched, erect or rather 
flexuose, 6 to 8 in. long and nearly as broad. Primary bracts loosely 
smaller, more acute or aristate, passing into the glumelike bracts sub- 
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shortest. Flowers 2 or 3, all hermaphrodite but probably only one 
fertile, their glumes about as long as the empty ones but narrower, 
and a small terminal glume either empty or with a rudimentary flower. 
Stamens 3. Style-branches 3. Fruit not seen. 
|. S. Wal Lord Howe’s Island, side of Mount Lingbird, C. Moore. The 
Specimens seen consist of panicles only, but indicate a species very differen an: 
other known to me, approaching perhaps in some respects the C. artieulatum, though 
the flat points to the bracts indicate flat blades to the leaves. 
3. C. articulatum, R. Br. Prod. 237.—Stems 3 to 6 ft. high, terete 
but marked with more or less distinet transverse septa almost disap- 
pearing below the panicle. Leaves erect, terete and stemlike, the 
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pound, somewhat nodding, 1to 14 ft. long, the very numerous branches 
and peduncles clustered within sheathing bracts, of which the lowest 
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hermaphrodite flowers, but usually only the lower one fertile. Glumes 
broad, membranous, acute, the upper ones gradually narrower and 
More obtuse but not shorter, 2 or rarely 3 outer ones empty and some- 
times almost aristate, and the terminal one usually small empty or 
with an imperfect flower. Stamens 3. Style-branches 3, short. Nut obo- 
void, at first triquetrous, the broad obtusely conical or ovoid solid apex 
Otten as long as the nucleus or —F. Muell. Fragm. ix. 14 ; 
243. 
y Seenslana, Rockingham Bay, Dailachy; Bowen Downs, Birch; "Brisbane 
ver, Moreton Bay, F. Mueller, Leichhardt and others. 
ok - Wales. Port J Hunters River, R. Brown; Paramatta, 
colls ; New England, C, Stuart. 
ee ia. e Yarra, Adamson, Robertson, F. Mueller; Lake Terang, F. 
veller ; Mount William Creek, Sullivan. 
S ia. Onkaparinga, F. Mueller. S edd 
NM Australi ing George's Sound, R. Brown, Maxwell, o Swan 
Ver, Drummond, n, 358 or 858, and Murchison River, Oldfield. 
Also in New Zealand and in New Caledonia. 
4. C. arthrophyllum, F. Muell. Fragm. ix. l4.—Very closely 
allied to the seven variety of. C. glomeratum, and intermediate as 
Were between that and ©. articulatum. Stems terete Sad oe 
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