Evandra. | CXLIIL. OYPERACEX. 425 
W. Australia. King George's Sound and adjoining districts, R. Brown, Drum- 
mond, n. 397 ; Preiss, n. 1719, Oldfield, F. Mueller and many others. 
^ie of the anthers not so long as in Æ. aristata.—Hook. le. 
W. Australia. King George's Sound, R. Brown ; also Drummond, n. 362. 
Trize IV. ScrnERIEX.—Flowers strictly unisexual in unisexual or 
androgynous spikelets. No utricle enclosing thefemales. Ovary and 
uut seated on a disk. 
30. SCLERIA, Berg. 
(Diplacrum, R. Br. Sphsropus, Beckel.) 
flowers always solitary in the spikelet, the males usually several, 
i spi mes 
Site the lamina. Spikelets in clusters or smal] corymbose or oblong 
: m terminal and axillary, or in a large compound terminal 
cle. 
— genus is generally spread over the tropical and subtropical regions of the 
or ding also i te i 
and the Old World, exten into the temperate regions of North 
. the thirteen Australian i widely spread over tropical 
Asia, two or three of them also in ca, two are at least Malayan 
maining six appear to be endemic. No species has 
n in New Zealand. The habit of the genus is very variable, but not more 
than that of Schenus, and although it has been divided by Nees and others into 
ozen 
and distinct sectional characters beyond 
the fo wing series are founded chiefly on inflorescence. 
Sers I, —-Smallannuals. Spikelets small, strictly unisezual, in little 
Szillary or terminal sessile clusters, the males with 1 to 3 flowers, 
Two upper glumes of the female spikelets enclosing the 
Sooko Us 19. 3 45. OU E ees 
nut and 1. S. caricina, 
