Gahnia.] CXLIUI. CYPERACEA. 419 
same glume, outer one male and very gr iin the inner one herma- 
phrodite and fertile. Stamens in each 4 or rarely 5 or 6; filaments 
moderately or very long after flowering. Siglo brndidbén usually 4 of 
equal length, but one om aa deeply divided so as to appear 5, at 
least in the rather numerous flowers examine Nut ovoid, hatd( 
very smooth and shining, f. a rich brown red she quite ripe or rarely 
pale Hersam reeh 2 lines long in the larger Tasmanian form scarcely 
above half s long in some varieties.—R. BE Prod. 238 ; Hook. f. Fi. 
Tasm. ii. 97; Bæckel. in Linnea, xxxviii. 345; Cladism fium and C. 
radula, Nees in Sieb. Laer, n. 11 and 12, not of R. Br.; Cladium 
ud F. Muell. Fragm. ix. 18; G. Sieberiana, Kunth, Enum 
River, Mrs orkaan. 
i Portland, All 
y Tasmania. Abun dant fos the island, J. D. Hooker; King's Island, 
ate, 
S. Australia. Rivoli Bay, F. Mue 
W. Australia.? There is a specime aem in the Hookerian herbarium marked 
King Geor rge's Sound, Collie, but as there is no jo oU eee in our herbaria from 
that well-searched locality it is probable there is some mist 
The species, easily distinguished ng all the large black cure hg by the 
mone T of short c loei ^ imbricate pub eos is Mr ariable in of these 
icm ume rds d r less obtuse; in the length to w iid pru E ts protrude — 
TE I eras and especially in the size of ane nu ; r typical 
amanina form, A which I have only seen a very few x 8. Walos specimens, the 
e is about 2 lines long. In the majority of the N. S. Wales specimens and a few 
uu southern pais the spikelets are smaller, the glumes rather less obtuse, the 
un usually but not always less conspicuous and the nuts very much smaller, 
: : pe I 
gi 
fred, perhaps notripe. I should also, from the de escriptions, refer to the small- 
ted Port Jokin ler = G. Urvilleana, Kunth, Enum. ii. 332, dit ri gonio. 
E oxylepis. Glumes rather fi d more acuminate, but I can find no other 
ce. i 
diff 
26. CAUSTIS, R. Br. 
(Eurostorrhiza, Steud.). 
"Sasi with d oo flower and often 1 male one below 
P. "o D unisexual by abortion. Glumes 3 or 4, im- 
bia a = row He achis, acuminate or aristate, @ or 2 outer emp 
M slender, der, with D ck hard hunter n base ; "gman 3, 
the seri 
