412 CXLIH. OYPERACES, ( Gahnia. 
Panicle very black, 3 to 6 in, long. S, Eastern species. 11. G. radula. 
i 4 ft. long . . 12. Œ decomposita. 
Panicle large, with spreading or drooping branches. 
Outer empty glumes acuminate or aristate, not much 
rter than the inner. 
Panicle dense. Nuts at length red. . . . . . . 13. G. tetragonocarpe. 
Panicle loose and drooping. Nuts at length black . 14. G. xanthocarpa. 
Outer glumes numerous, short, obtuse or slightly É 
acuminate. . . . . . . , . . . . . , . 15. Q. peittacorum. 
Srerrow I. Lampocarya.—Spikelets with a single terminal vun 
phrodite flower, or rarely with a second male or imperfect one. Panicle 
long and narrow, the spikelets in compound clusters or short spikelike 
branches, sessile or shortly pedunculate along the main rhachis. 
short compound sessile spikes in the axil the upper or floral leaves, 
forming a dense spikelike slightly interrupted leafy panicle ; 
leafy bracts very long, with sho ths, pper gradually shor er 
glumes.—Beeckel. in Linnza, xxxviii. 944; Lampocarya aspera, 
Prod. 238; Cladium asperum, F. Muell. Fragm. ix. 12. 
N. Australia. Taylor's Range, F. Mueller. - Rock- 
d. Keppel Bay, Broad Sound and Shoalwater Bay, R. Br eh More- 
y, Dallachy ; Rockhampton, O'Shanesy, Thozet ; Ipswich, Nernst; 
. Peel's 
~ es. Ag Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Bees, pA sid ; eri 
Range, A. Cunningham; Hastings River, Beckler ; Macleay River, C. AWBITÀ 
mond River, Mrs. Hodgkinson; Clarence River, Wilcox; southward to Ma 
A. Cunningham, 
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Also the same or a very closely allied species in New Caledonia and "a 
Islands ; and the Sandwich perse d G. globosa, H. Mann, or G. mucronata, 
may also be not really distinct. Pan 
Hezalepis seabrifolia, Beckel. in Flora, 1875, 118, from Brisbane S pid nuts of 
Dietrich, appears to me to be that state or variety of G, aspera, in wbioh. de 
a straw-colour or rarely dark brown and opaque are not yet forced out y Wales 8$ 
