eso EG pio 
Cladium.] CXLIII. CYPERACEE. 409 
6. C. Preissii, F. Muell. Herb.—Stems 3 to 4 ft. high, much 
flattened with rather acute edges below the inflorescence, the flowering 
glabrous like the rest.—Baumea Preissii, Nees in Pl. Preiss, ii. 75 ; 
Beckel. in Li . 
W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, Preiss, n. 1735; Port Gregory and 
Murchison River, Oldjield. 
7. C. laxum, Benth.—Stems 1 to 2 ft. high, much flattened. 
Leaves at the base of the stem equitant, vertically flat, sometimes as 
long as the stem but usually much shorter, straight or falcate, acute, 
l to 3 lines broad. Panicle loose, thyrsoid, 2 to 4 in. long or some- 
times the lower branches distant and pedunculate in the lower sheath- 
b flowering ones. Stamens e- 
Peas 3. Nut small, obovoid, crowned by the white adnate base of 
he style.—Chapelliera laza, Nees in Pl. Preiss. ii. 76; Bawmea laxa, 
Beckel. in Linnea, xxxviii. 245. 
8 W. Australia. King George's Sound, Preiss, 5. 1763, Marwell, Oldfield ; 
eters River, Preiss; Murchison River, Oldfield. ~ Evidently very closely allied to C. 
the i, although placed by Nees in a different genus on account of the adnate base of 
style being more distinct, at least in the specimens seen, in 
edges, ending in a flat point, those higher on the stem or sages 
i i ing into the 
pikelets in erect clusters as | , glomeratum, 
smaller; glumes ciliate as in that species, but with only one herma- 
