Gahnia.] OXLIII. CYPERACER. 417 
S. Australia, Memory Cove, R. Brown; Port Lincoln, J. S. Browne; Lake 
Alexandrina, F. Mueller, 
ll. G. radula, Benth.—Stems 14 to 3 ft. high. Leaves very long, 
with involute seabrous margins, ending in long subulate points. Panicle 
compound, thyrsoid, black, usually 8 to 6 in. long, but sometimes much 
longer, with numerous erect branches. One or two lower bracts with 
long subulate leafy points or lamin», the others gradually smaller and 
more glume-like. Spikelets very. numerous, black, not clustered, erect, 
narrow, 2 to 3 lines long. Glumes altogether 6 to 8, 2 or 3 outer ones 
empty acute or acuminate, the inner empty ones shorter and obtuse, and 
the almost hood-shaped flowering ones closely enveloping the flowers 
Flowers 2, both hermaphrodite, but the upper one alone fertile. 
Victoria, chiefly about Melbourne, Robertson, Adamson, F. Mueller and others ; 
French Island, Beveridge. 
M ia. Derwent River, R. Brown ; Hobarton, Gunn ; Swanport, Herb. F, 
ueller. 
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flowering of the specimens or to distinct varieties. Sieber’s specimens, th, 
n. 11, erroneously named by Nees Cladium filum, may belong to G, radula, but the 
spikelets are still too young for determination and I Lr lie no specimen of the 
There seems to be much diversity in the degree of development of the inner 
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12. G. decomposita, Benth.—Stems “in dense tussacs 6 to 9 ft. 
high” (Oldfield). Leaves very long, rigid, with involute very scabrous 
: ) adium decompositum, R. Br. Prod. ; 
Eee Nees in Pl. Preiss. ii. 87; Cladium Preissii, F. Muell. Fragm. 
W. Australia. King George's Sound, R. Brown, Oldfield, F. Mueller; Swan 
— Preiss, n, 1806, dion d, n. 16. In these Swan River specimens the bracts 
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