Gahnia.] CXLIII. CYPERACEZX. 415 
the secondary ones almost glume-like, but all aristate. Spikelets the 
smallest in the genus, all distinct, sessile or pedicellate, scarcely 1 line 
long. Glumes about 3 empty, acuminate, the outer 1 or 2 shorter. 
Flowering glumes about as long as the innermost em one or the 
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tamens 3 or in most of the flowers examined 4. tyle-branches 3, 
undivided. Nut oblong, obtusely triquetrous, obtuse, rather shining, 
about as long as the glume. . 
N.S.Wales. Barren situations north of Bathurst, 4. Cunningham. 
Victoria, Higher drier parts of the Avon Ranges, F. Mueller. 
pes acute or with short points, the upper ones obtuse. Flowers 2, 
hermaphrodite, the upper one alone fertile. Stamens 5 or6. Style- 
ranches 3, undivided. Nut not seen. 
W. Australia, Drummond, n. 102, 253. 
7. G. ancistrophylla, F. Muell. Herb. (as a Cladium):—Stems 
slender, tufted, from under 1-ft. to 13 ft. high. Leaves chiefly at the 
base the stem and sometimes nearly as long, subulate, smooth, 
ending in long hooked or recurved points, the brown sheaths bearded 
at the orifice with woolly hairs. Panicle long and narrow, sometimes 
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not longer, or a few with awns slightly exceeding the spikelet. Glumes 
acute, scarcely aristate, 6 to 9 empty, the outer ones shorter, the flower- 
mg ones obtuse and membranous, the inner one small. Flowers 2, 
both hermaphrodite, the upper one alone fertile. Stamens 3 or very 
4. 8 
.G. i ra, Benth.—Stems slender, 8 in. to above 1 ft. high. 
ves mostly shorter, quite smooth, subulate, tapering into long fine 
e arrow, ; 
p artial panicles all erect, the bracts under the spikelets glume-like and 
ly longer than them. Spikelets 1} to 2 lines long, not clustered. 
