414 CXLITI. CYPERACER, [Gahnia. 
with empty glum 
specimens examined. Stamens 3 or rarely 4, at length much elongated. 
Nut small, obovoid or ovoid, black and shining when quite ripe.— 
Cladium melanocarpum, F. Muell. Fragm. ix. 18 
N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown ; northward to New England, C. Stuart ; 
Hastings River, Beckler, C. Moore; near Bulli, Johnson; southward to Nangat 
Range, Twofold Bay, F. Mueller. 
mor. Il. 
hermaphrodite flower and a second male, or if hermaphrodite sterile, 
below i : i d 
> 4. G. Sieberi, Bæckel. in Linnea, xxxviii. 343.—Stems terete, 2 
ft. high or more. Leaves long, with involute scabrous margins, ending 
er s rat on ort, W 
oblong or spikelike clusters of spikelets. Lower bracts with long 
subulate leafy points or lamin, the upper ones graduall smaller and 
the secondary ones passing into glume-like bracts subtending the spike- 
m 
alone fertile. Stamens in all the flowers examined 4. Style-branches 
3, undivided. Nut oblong, smooth, 3-angled.— Didymonema_filifolia, 
Presl, Diss. 1829 and Symb. Bot. 6, t. 3, and on his authority Aisne 
teretifolia, Presl, in Isis. 1828; Gahnia psittacoram, Nees in ee 
Agrostoth. n. 13, not of Labill; Melachne Sieberi, Schrad., accor P 
to Nees in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, vi. 50; Caustis Siebert, Kunth, 
Enum. ii. 307 ; Cladiwm Sieberi, F. Muell. Fragm. ix. 14. 
N.S. Wales. Port J i ls, Sieber, The habit 
approaches that of G. melanocarpa, but the characters are rather those of tho fll 
5. G. microstachya, 
terete. Leaves few at the base of the stem and nearly as long, "ht 
scabrous invol ins, ending in long subulate terete SIT. 
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