ICONES PLANTARUM, 31 
Puate 1343. 
CYATHOCHZETE CLANDESTINA, Benth. 
Cyperaces, Tribe RHYNCHOSPOREZ. 
C. sip aS Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 351.—Carpha clandestina, 
R. Br, Prod, 231. 
Has. West Australia, my George’s Sound, Brown, Oldham. 
Caules teretes, erecti, usque ad 7-8 ped. alti. Folia ad basin caulis e 
vaginis distiche imbricatis ne pedalia v. longiore, rigida, superne 1 
lin. lata, vaginis 2—3-pollicaribus membrana lacera coronatis, pauca 
secus caulem vagina longa tnintas revi. Bractew florales secus caulis 
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gradatim breviores brevius acuminate. Spicule intra quamque brac- 
team sepius 2, vix exserte v. una longius pedunculata, singule fere 
2. eter anguste, vix compre sse, 2-floree Hlume seepius 
2 exteriores vacue, 2 interiores longiores latiores flores arcte invol 
ventes, quorum superior hermaphroditus, inferior masculus v. sterilis. 
bus. ata filiformis, longe exsertus, ramis cs 2 filiformibus. 
Nuz Se — basi indurata coronata, bene matura tamen adhuc 
ignota.— G. Brn 
Fig. 1. Braet aa out showing the spikelet. 2. Hermaphrodite flower. 
PLatTe 1344. 
RHYNCHOSPORA RUPPIOIDES, Benth. 
Cyperace®, Tribe RHYNCHOSPOREA. 
R. (Eurhynchospora) ruppioides, Benth. sp. nov., aquatica, caule 
foliis bracteisque submersis filiformibus, inflo rescentia irregulariter 
vmbellatim _composita, spiculis singulis pedicellatis, setis hypogynis 
6, styli ramis stigmatosis 2. 
AB, Ceylon, in ponte near Colombo, Thwaites ; Paraguay, marshes 
at Caaguaza, Balansa, n. 2550. 
aules submersi ian ei ramosi, foliis a basi lineari- fliformi 
longe capillaceis. Inflorescentia compo osita, irregulariter fasciculato- 
subumbelliformis, radiis umbelluliferis, umnbellulis aliis ad fas — 
bractearum longe ¢ mi Sem reductis aliis spiculas paucas 
pedicellatas ferentibus. Spicule anguste, acuminate, 4-6 lin. sae 
