416 CXLITI. CYPERACES. [ Gahnia. 
Empty glumes 5 or 6, narrow, acuminate, almost aristate, the outer 
ones scareely shorter. Flowering glumes acute or obtuse, the inner 
one small and membranous. Flowers 2, both hermaphrodite, the upper 
one alone fertile. Stamens usually 3, but sometimes 5. Style-brauches 
3, undivided. Nut ovoid-oblong, smooth.—Cladiwm lanigerum, 2 
Prod. 287; F. Muell. Fragm. ix. 14 
P eds mt Port Lincoln, R. Brown, J. S. Browne; St, Vincent's Gulf, F. 
uetter. . 
Drummond ; Point Irwin, Oldjield. The leaves in these speci- 
mens are rather longer and the stems taller than in the South Australian ones. To 
them appears referrible Cladium medium, R. Br. 1. om King George’s Sound, — 
the flowers on his specimens are still very young. In Oldfield's specimens I fi 
generally 5 stamens but in Drummond’s there are 3 only as in the South A 
9. G. aristata, F. Muell. Herb. (as a Cladium).—Stems terete, 1 
to 2 ft. high. Leaves crowded at the base of the stem, long, m 
terete, and often chanelled but quite smooth, with long straight iln 
points, the brown sheaths bearded at the orifice with woolly wn 
Paniele long, narrow, almost spikelike but interrupted, the — 
branches distant, generally 2 or 3 of the partial panicles sessi 4 A 
shortly peduneulate within the sheath and all erect. Lowest Ain 
with a long brown sheath and erect subulate lamina often excee 5 
acuminate or aristate, the outer ones scarcely shorter, the po^ dd 
glumes shorter and obtuse, Flowers 2, both hermaphrodite, 9u 
upper one alone fertile. Stamens 3. Nut not seen. "M 
à 
W. Australia. Drummond, n, 889; Upper Kalgan River, Oldfield; Upper 7" 
River, F. Mueller, Miss Warburton. 
deusta, Benth.—Stems terete, 1 ft. high or rather more. 
10. G. M M 
Leaves shorter or nearly as long, with scabrous involute margins € rage 
k 
wer ones peduneu ate, th ermost 
Primary bracts long and subulate with black sheaths, the UP o 
and secondary ones gradually smaller and passing into the glum 
istat 
he margins especially near the base 
bearded on 
lines long, narrow-lanceolate. Empty glumes 3 or 4, long and "sd y 
acutely acuminate, slightly ciliate or bearded on the margins OF e 
ab : 
[à rous, the 2 es membranous, the innermost sm» alone 
aline. Flowers 2, both hermaphrodite, but the upper 999 ^. 3, 
fertile. Stamens usu Style-branches in the perfect e i 
indi ided. Nut ovoid-oblong, obtusely triquetrous, obtuse, Pu 
Bot shining. - Clodium deustum, R. Br. Prod. 237; F. Mu 
