Seleria.] CXLIII. CYPERACE E. 433 
the short branches of the partial ae rather less numerous but 
still a. in the female. Outer bracts or floral leaves lo ong and 
distant, the upper ones gradually shorter and more approximate. 
Spikelets Medis 2 lines long.” Glumes in the males numerous, obtuse 
or nearly so, 3 or 4 outer empty ones more acute or acuminate, with 
dark brow n margins and keels or brown all over. Stamens 3. Female 
spikelets 1 rather larger, with 3 or 4 acute or acuminate glumes, and no 
empty one above the flower. Nut globular, tuberculate, more or less 
E Disk with 3 very broad spreading membranous truncate 
obes., 
ensland. Suttor River, F. Mueller; Rockingham Bay, Dallaehy ; Rock- 
hampton, 0 O Shanes Y, Thozet and others; Springsure Cliffs, Wuth; Brisbane River, 
Bailey ; Archer’ s Creek, Leichhardt. 
Very different in aspect as well as in character from any other Scleria known -to 
me. The male MOSciqens in herb. F. Mueller are numerous, the females very few. 
Turs EX.—HFlowers strictly unisexual, in unisexual or 
NONE aus Gave the females enclosed in an utricle or perigynium 
31. UNCINIA, Pers. 
Flowers unisexual, in a single terminal- tired, pike male 
at the top. Glumes imbricate all round the is. Stamens in the 
males 3 or rarely fewer, without hypogynous bristles or senlon. Ovary 
in the females enclosed in a bottle-s aped utricle or perigynium con- 
tracted at the top, with a small oblique or 2-toothed orifice and at the 
Ec mu minds to New Zealand and extra-tropical South America, and one 
1n Mexico and the West Indies 
sos es filiform. Spikelets loose, 3 to 9 9 lin . 1. U. tenella. 
Leaves linear, Spikelets dense, oblong, 9 to 12 y long. . 2. U. compacta. 
aves and stem: Sese wat Spikel ets narrow in. 
ng. 
lon 
Leaves narrow-linear. Male flowers 3 or 4. Glumes all d 
acute or Purto 1 . 8. U. riparia, 
Leaves almost filiform. Male flowers rather numerous. r 
Lowest glume produced into a filiform .. 4. U. debilior. 
L U. tenella, R. Br. Prod. 241.—Stem and leaves filiform, in dense 
tufts, rarely above 6 in. ioe Spikelet loose, narrow-oblong, 3 to 9 
dies es long, with about 6 to 12 female flowers and 3 or 4 males at the 
the: Male glumes small, — very thin a: 2 only in ox 
flowers examin e lumes lanceolate, ac 
m a oo keel, about m lines long. Ut dd rts 2 long as 
