Scleria.] CXLIIL CYPERACEE. 431 
and shining or slightly reticulate. Disk anne with 3 broad obtuse 
lobes, the outer one not prominent.—R. Br. Prod. 240; Beeckel. in 
Linnea, xxxviii. 511 ; F. Muell. Fragm. ix i 
and. Endeavour River and Bay of Inlets, Banks and Solander ; Rock- 
hampton, Zhozet ; Fitzroy Island, ram The species is also in the Pacific islands 
and perhaps in the Malayan Arc hipe 
« Greeffeana, Beckel. in ifors 1875, 121 (from the char. 
lon Spikelets numerous, unisexual, e males about 2 lines long 
Stamens usually 2 zlobular, white, tubercular- rugose or nearly 
smooth, glabrous or sparingly pubescent. Outer persistent disk at 
cda Ew cupular, inner adnate disk with 3 broad lobes denticulate 
N. Australia, Near Providence Hill, F. Mueller. 
y aeenslan Cape York, A^ Gillieray; Cape Grafton, A. Cunningham ; Port 
ackay, Amalia Dietrich (if correctly identified). 
0. ebecarpa, Nees; Kunth, Enum. ii. 357.—Stems 1 to 3 ft. 
high, glabrous as well as the fo liage. Leaves 2 to 3 lines broad, the 
sheaths more or less winged on the angles. Terminal panicle 1j to 3 
m, long, not much branched, with 1 or sometimes 2 leafy bracts and a 
Second smaller panicle on a long peduncle in the axi a leaf h 
low "n. r ants. small and subulate. Spikelets usually 3 
together in little cymes or clusters, 2 male 1 , the males 
ow, under 2 lines long, with numerous flowers. Stamens 3. 
Flowering glume of the females very broad, about 1 line long, with 2 or 
Suter empty ones. Nut globular or ovoid, white, smooth and shining 
but BE under 1 Bigs long. Disk adnate, with 3 acute lobes.— 
Beckel. in Lin æa, xxxviii. 478 ; F. Muell. Fragm. ix. 21; S. Dietrichie, 
Beckel. in Fiora, 1875, 121, (from the char. given). 
N. Australia, arwin, Schultz, n. 816. 
Queensland. Wide Den bad Bidwill ; — Bay, Dallachy. 
N. S. Wal Richmond River, Danger 
oed Spread over tropical Asia. Some f Dallach losel resemble 
specimens o achy's closely 
cias speci species, but the disk- “lobes "ope to be obtuse, they are however scarcely suffi- 
spec 
ll. S. chin ensis, Kunth, Enum. ii. 357 —Stems 2 to 3 ft. high, 
glabrous as well as the foliage. Leaves 2 to 5 lines broad, the — 
i or less winged on the angles, the ligula membranous, often 
lines long, but on other leaves short. Terminal panicle dense, aad 
