410 CXLIIL CYPERACEA. [ Cladium. 
Victoria. Melbourne, Adamson ; Portland, -Allitt ; St, Kilda and Queenscliff, 
F. Mueller, 
ia. Derwent River, R. Brown; Near Hobarton, Gun»; Swanport, 
Story. 
S. Australia. Port Adelaide and other localities on St. Vincent's Gulf, F. 
Muelkr, Blandowski. 
d inflorescence are so nearly those of Gahnia trifida, that „the speci- 
mens of the two have often been confounded, and R, Brown's character appears to 
have been chiefly taken from the latter. 
25, GAHNIA, Forst. 
(Morelotia, Gaudich. Lampocarya, R, Br.) 
Nut obovoid ovoid or almost fusiform, obscurely or not all 3-angled, 
usually smooth and shining when fully ripe, the endocarp hard, smoot 
or transversely rugose inside, the exocarp but little thickened.— 
along the inside or with involute margins so as to appear terete, pee 
ending in long subulate points.  Panicles either e loose few 
drooping, or long and erect or spike-like. Spikelets black or in a 9 à 5 
aments i i i 
The genus extends to New Zealand, the Malayan Archipelago and the Pacific 
islands. Ofthe Australian species, one appears to ie general over a great part of the 
area, the others are all endemic. eae UnA 
: y i by recent bo as generically distinct 
Cladium, has been recently united with it by F. Mu c 
Gahnia and the section Baumea of Cladium, neither the nut nor the stamens the two 
constant ve characters in some few cases the habit of species of the 
n 
ere th. 
» and above the flower or flowers cael 
4h i x nes H the 
the one or two flowering glumes are much shorter, and the fertilo flower heise 
spikelet, there being no imperfect flower above i. Baumea never has ait 
