422° CXLIIL, CYPERACER. [ Caustis: 
C. flexuosa, smaller than in O. recurvata. Stamens in the males and 
filaments in the females 4 in all the specimens examined. Nut ovoid, 
oot or thickened base of the style much smaller ‘than the nut 
N. S. Wales. Berrima, Mi pd Meer where it is much used for carpet brooms. 
Victoria. Grampians, F. Mue 
. C. dioica, R. Br. Prod. 239.-- Stems rigid, knotted and almost 
lbo at the base, 6 in. to 14 ft. high, unisexual, the males witk 
short erect flowering byiteélióh and few short subulate barren ones, the 
aristate, slightly pubescent, the outer ones rather rigid. Stamens 
. Female spikelets smaller, all on recurved rigid flattened oF 
angular pedicels mixed in with the clustered branchlets, the at 
more membranous than in the males. Barren fimo ur z^ t 
Fragm. ix. 19; 0. hexandra, Nees in Pl. Preiss. ii. 88. - 
W. Australia. Lucky Bay, R. Brown ; King George's pol and neighbour 
pravae n. 94, Preiss, n. 1697, F. Mueller ; Swan River, Preiss, n. 1698; 
chison River Oldfield. 
e specimens from Drummond's first Swan River collection are d 
able for kr the Teaf-sheaths being mint into linear-subulate erect or Sprea 
27. ARTHROSTYLES, R. Br. 
- Spikelets with a single hermaphrodite flower or rarely with a second 
uis er. Glumes several, all inb the Wepermaskd 1 or2 empty imbricate 
all round the rhachis, Hypogynous bristles none, Stamens or per 
nodia 6, filaments 3 short vith, nel t e 3 muc p 
very deciduous (or without?) anthers. Style haizi , thickened om 
base, articulate and falling off below the thickening ; Ms 
tigma 
3, ae ee densely cottony-woolly. Nut obovoid-globulas tb ged 
-angled, very obtuse.—Perennial, ieee cept the sheath 
at the base. . Spikelets in a small terminal he m^ 
for 
The genus as above ch to the single Au an species 
the three from the Mascarene Islands, from Coyle [o hi syle 
associated with it have neither the ts nor the peculiar Er of ds they 
Ind Bhe-ahepe of the keita all ayes them a very different as Whe 
aspect. 
iated with Fimbristylis from which they tire 
nearly as Ky s docs from C chaps a 
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