14 ICONES PLANTARUM. 



(Mexico), G, chiapensis, A. Gray, with the dense spike of C spicata, 

 but with shorter broader flowers, and very much longer stamens. The 

 leaves are also more rounded at the base and tomentose-pubescent 

 underneath. — G. Bentham. 



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Fig. 1, Flower. 2. Anther before opening, and back view when open. 3 Calvx 

 4. Nutlet. ^ ^ 



Plate 1216 



CAEPHA ALPINA, 7?. Br. 



Ctperace^, Tribe RnTNCHOsroRE^. 

 C. alpina, B. Br. Prod. 230. 



Hab. Mountains of Tasmania, Victoria, and New Zealand, chiefly 

 at an elevation of from 4,000 to 5,000 feet. 



Caules e basi perenni 4-6.pollicares v. in specJminibus veo-etioribns 

 sttbpedales. Folia ad basin caulis eo mnlto breviora, rigidnla, obtusa 

 plana v. concava, |-li lin, lata, vagina lata membranacea apcrta v! 

 folii intimi breviter clausa. Ivflorescentia breviter corymbosa, nunc in 

 capitnlum conferta, nunc magis evoluta, sesquipollicaris, fasciculis 

 inferioribus breviter pedunculatis. Bradem involucrantes 2 exteriores 

 f oliacea?, inflorescentiam saepius sequantes v. breviter superantes • 

 bractese interiores parv», glumacesB. Spiculce l-florte, compress^' 

 lanceolatae, vix 4 lineas excedentes in speciminibus miuoribus 6-7 lin' 

 longae in vegetioribus. GIuvkb disticLge, ssepins 4, tenuiter'membra- 

 naceae, fere byalina) etsi rigidulaj, praeter costam enerves 2 extlmaj 

 vacuae breves, tertia maxima pariter vacua, qnarta florifera' ea paullo 

 minor. SetoB bypogynae 6, post anthesin auctae, plmnosffi glumam 

 superantes, demum recurvo-patentes sub fructu persistentea pappnm 

 basalem simnlantes. Stamina 3. Ovarium styli basi incrassata com eo 

 continua terminatiim. Stigmata 3, filiformla. Nux ovoidea fcrc 2 lin. 

 longa, styli basi rigida pamm incrassata coronata. ' 



_ Tbe genus Carpha, as establlslied by Brown, included five Austra- 

 lian species, which, as he suggested, were not very closely allied it 

 has since been variously extended or reduced, and F Mueller* >— 

 proposed to merge it into Cimtospora. In the Flora Australiensis I h- 



ave 



.uuugut X. muie naLurai to limit it to the species here figured, one 

 closely allied to it from the extreme south of America, and a New 

 Caledonian one with a large panicle of small spikelcts.— Q-. Bentttam. 



Fig. 1. Spikelet. 2. The same, the small outer glumes removed. 3. Plbtil 4. 



Fruit. 



