Scleria.] CXLIII. CYPERACES. 429 
branched. Fertile spikelets more or less androgynous, or at least 
with empty glumes above the female flower. Stamens 1 to 3. 
5. S. Brownii, Kunth, Enum. ii. 349.—Stems slender, 1 to 2 ft. 
high. Leaves long and narrow, rather rigid, very scabrous or nearly 
smooth, the sheaths often pubescent and slightly fringed at the orifice, 
the floral leaves or bracts similar, the upper ones shorter, but all leaf- 
like and distant. Spikelets androgynous or male, 2 to near 3 lines 
long, several together in axillary and terminal sessile or pedunculate 
usters. 
not of Poi 
o: Australia. Arnhem South Bay, R. Brown; Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 37, 
Queensland. Rockhampton, O’Shanesy and others; Nerkool and Herbert's 
Mb Bowman; Oxley's Station, Leichhardt; Dawson and Burnet Rivers, F. 
ueller, 
8. pallidifiora, Boeckel. in Flora, 1875, 119, from Gladstone, Amalia Dietrich, is 
Probably referrible to S. Browniti. 
6. S, lithosperma, Willd. ; Kunth, Enum. ii.349.—Stems slender, 
1 to 13 ft. high. Leaves very narrow linear and rather long, some- 
times almost filiform, the sheaths acutely 3-angled, usually pubescent on 
the sides and slightly fringed at the orifice, the upper ones passing 
rter and more subulate. 
narr 
Stamens in each; in the male spikelets the glumes and flowers more 
Rumerous and the stamens often 3. ut ovoid, smooth and shining 
or rarely slightly tuberculate. Outer persistent disk broadly eupular, 
entire, inner adnate one reduced to a brown ring or quite obsolete.— 
Beckel. in Linnea, xxxviii. 451 ; F. Muell. Fragm. ix. 21; S. capillaris, 
#. Br. Prod. 240; Kunth, Enum. ii. 349; Hypoporum capillare, Nees 
in Linnea, ix, 303 ; H. Sieberi, Nees in Sieb. Agrostoth. n. 97. 
o0, Australia. Arnhem S. Bay, R. Brown; Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 6, 171 
» 817. 
