Cladium.] CXLIII. CYPERACEF. 407 
tralia. Mount Lofty Ranges, F. Mue. 
ue J slenifoliwn. Leaves flat, 1 to 2 lines e strongly striate, with a promi- 
nent m on each side. Inflorescence, e 2. 1-flowered spikelets, nuts, etc. 
quite as in the normal C. Rape embed except 
tppotching those of C. glo 
: S. Wales. New England, C. Stua 
Vice, oria, Goulburn et Upper Hume (Du F. Mueller. 
M Fragm. ix. 15, proposes to pnto this and the following C. schenoides 
with C. teretifolium. ‘They eat to me however to be constantly distinct 
nearly allied. I have ee seen any aut res specimen of Labillardiére's Lepido- 
sperma tetragonum, but the plate quoted so exactly represents the Cladium tetraque- 
trum that I feel no Vm as to its identity. The minute hypogynous scales described 
by those Ped vty seen By soe uh are probably the scars ui p4 the fallen s 
 Scheenoides, R. Br. Prod. 237.—Stems 6 in. to 
i 
without any raised midrib, rigid, sgt or ies ve Facute T eid 
id. . 
Pl. Noy. Holl. i. 18, t t. 18; S. fleas us, Nees in8ieb. Agrostoth. n. 18; 
Baumen schænoides, Bæckel Linnsa, xxxviii. 246. 
N.S. Wales, Port Jackson m neighbourhood, R. Brown, Woolls, C. Moore 
ers. 
a. On the Yarra, F. Mueller ; Mount William Flats, Su//ivan. 
Tasmania, Dry heathy places, Gunn, Archer and others. 
w. Australia, eae n. 331; Perongerup, F. Mueller. 
Var. elon ngatum. Ste d leaves ote 1 ft. or more, the panicle longer, the 
outer shea eathing br che wits à yar a ort lamina, 
d. Moreton Island, F. Mueller. 
= C. Gunnii, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 95, f. 148.—Stems slender 
rigid, terete, from under 1 to 2 ft. high or even more, leafless 
rete 
‘nicle narrow, interrupted, with few erect esee sometimes almost 
Spike-like, Lower vere bract with a short subulate or rarely a 
Slume-like, S ikelets seule: distinct, somewhat 
Glumes rather PAM us t at first but spreading when in fruit, the 
flowering on bcn Mie, uc y acuminate, often 3 lines long, 
