Carex, ] CXLIII. CYPERACER. 447 
floral ones or outer bracts similar but with very short sheaths, the 
upper ones small. Spikelets in our specimens 4 to 10 males in a ter- 
minal cluster, the central one 1i in. long, the outer ones much shorter, 
and 3 or 4 lower down females or androgynous, } to 1 in. long, 1 or 2 
young to characterise, Style branches 3. 
T ia. Woolnorth, Gunn. This is evidently a distinct species, although 
the specimens are too few and not far enough advanced fora full description. 
. 25.? C. maculata, Boott in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 128; Lil. Car. 
1. 9, £ 26.—Stems long and weak. Leaves long, the floral ones or 
outer bracts exceeding the inflorescence, the sheaths bordered by a 
b 
broad thinly scarious brown membrane pikelets several, 3 or 4 
usually sessile in a terminal cluster, of which 1 wholly male and 1 to 
androgynous the male flowers at the , and 2 to 4 females more 
F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 2 
Queensland. Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, F. Mueller, C. Stuart, Bailey ; 
Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. ; 
N. S. Wales. Tweed and Richmond Rivers, C, Moore. 
Also in East India, as identified by Boott. Pa 
26. C. Brownii, Zuckerm. Enum. Car. 21.—Stems 1 to 2 ft. long, 
rather weak. Leaves long, the lowest floral ones or outer bracts often 
exceeding the inflorescence, the upper ones short and subulate. Spike- 
e usually 3 or 4, very near together at the end of the stem, erect 
an i i 
o 
all j to $ in. long. umes more or less scarious, narrow or short and 
acuminate, the midrib produced into a rather long point. Utricle ovoid, 
` turgid or nearly globular, usually dark-coloured in fruit, rather more 
than 1 line long, prominently many-nerved, abruptly contracted into 
à Very short 2-toothed beak, Style-branehes 3.—Boott, Ill. Car. iv. 
161, t, 532, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 250; C. striata, R. Br. Prod. 243, 
Kunth, Enum, ii, 458, Sieb. Agrostoth. n. 16, not of Michaux. 
N. S. Wales, Hunters and Williams Rivers, R. Brown; Hastings River, 
C. Moore ; Richmond River, Faweett; Archer's Creek, Leichhardt. 
Victoria. Hume and Curdie's Rivers, F. Mueller; Ballarat, Bacchus, CiL 
C. lacistoma, R. Br. Prod. 243; Boott, Ill Car. t. 532, appears to have been 
correctly referred by F. Mueller, to C. Brownii. 
27. C. alsophila, F. Muell. Fragm. viii, 257.—A tall plant with 
