432 CXLHI. CYPERACER. [Seleria. 
branched, 2 to’ 4in. long, and 1 or 2 smaller axillary ones lower down. 
Outer bracts or floral leaves long and leaflike and numerous subulate- 
acuminate bracts within the panicle protruding far beyond the spikelets. 
Spikelets numerous and crowded, unisexual, usually 1 female and lor 
2 males in each cluster, the males narrow about 2 lines long, the 
females with much broader glumes. Nut globular, white, irregularly 
tuberculate-rugose and sometimes aperiogly pubescent. Disk adnate, 
with 3 broad lobes from very obtuse _to almost acute; outer disk 
iid Veg ciue —Beckel. in TEN xxxviii. 486; F. Muell. 
gm 20. 
Fragm 
Queensland. Rockingham Bay, Dallach, y ; Dunk and Goold Islands, M*Gillivray ; 
Lower Herbert River, Herb, F. Mueller 
Also in the Malayan Archipelago and South China. It is very closely proce 
S. sei geriet: Nees, and to S. malaccensis, Boeckel. in which however the leaf-shea 
are not winged. 
RIES V. AOT aucle le single, large, loose and very 
DNE. on a long terminal peduncl 
12. S. oryzoides, Presl; Kunth, Enum . 356.—S ems from a 
creeping rhizome, tall, stout, glabrous as oer as ae folia,^. Leaves 
erect, the lower ones long, i to $ in. broad, longitudinal: jv aan 
Panicle terminal, peduneulate — the last leaf, ovate, 6 to : peii 
very Sopoond , with numer rect or slightly spreniing slender 
small, 
bu 
nous in Indian ones, the subtending bracts small, lanceolate, glu ori 
like, keeled, with short points. Glumes of the female nee ovate- 
lanceolate, acute or almost obtuse, 3 or 4 outer empty on pri amet : 
shorter and a small empty one above the flower. Glumes of wl male 
rrow i 
Md Vigo prominent, obseurely 3-lobed. —Beeckel. in | Linnas, 
1. 492. 
Y Between M‘Adam and Providence Hil, F. yan 
por tropical Asia, and the same or a closely allied spea in tr zen 
f M Australian specimens are in flower only but agree 
SERIES VI. Diotce.—Spikelets strictly dicecious, small, densely 
clustered in numerous short axillary and terminal panicles. 
. S. sphacelata, F. Muell Fragm. ix. 20.—Stems 14 ee 
high, glabrous as well as the foliage. Leaves lo: d n but 
recurved margins and keel s scabrous, the sheaths acutely seangled 
. not inged, Ys id ligula. Panicles numerous, 1 to near 2 1. ied 
axils, the lower ones netia mi tpt 
the Spikelets i in ara eB ye plant very numerous and densely clustere 
