MACLOSKIE : CYPERACE^E. 



267 



(N. Zeal., Tasman., S. Austral., Chili, etc.), W. Magellan, Port Eden; 

 Fuegia to Cape Horn; at Packewaia in Beaver Ch.; Staaten I.; Falklands, 

 abundant. 



(Fig. G-H in Engl. & Pr. ii, 2, 114.) 



7. ELYNANTHUS Nees. 



Low or rush-like, with narrow leaves and few-flowered spikelets, the 

 upper flowers male, the lateral hermaphrodite ; several sterile scales dis- 

 tichously imbricating the base of the spikelets, which form a close or lax 

 panicle. Stamens 3, rarely more, to 8. Style 3-branched, broad at base. 

 Achene broadly ellipsoid, obtusely triangular, the angles costate. 



Benth. & Hook. Gen. PI. iii, 1063, distinguish these from Schcenus 

 by their terminal panicles, non-flexuous rachis, habit and nut. 



Species 30, chiefly in S. Afr., with scattered species in S. Austral., New 

 Zeal., and extra-trop. S. Amer. 



i E. ANTARCTICUS (Hook. f. sub 

 Chcetospora]. 



Culm cespitose, terete, leafy at base, 

 leaves narrow-linear, rigid, scarcely 

 equalling the culm, semiterete, gla- 

 brous. Spikelets i -flowered; about 6 

 of them in a short panicle, shorter 

 than the 5-leaved involucre. Scales 

 distichous, keeled, unbearded. Setae 

 6, capillary, exceeding the achene. 



(Mts. of S. Chili) ; Cape Tres Mon- 

 tes; N. & S. Fuegia; W. Magellan. 

 (Dusen.) 



2. E. LAXUS (Hook. f. sub Ckcztospom}. 



Culm 30-60 cm. tall, cespitose. 

 Leaves about as long, only i mm. 

 wide, striate, margins serrulate. Pan- FIG. 45. 



icle lax, 6 Cm. long, with longer bracts Elynanthus laxus. Inflorescence, spikelet and 



the pedicels i-spiculate. Spikelets 2- 



flowered, with 5 scales, the highest with a male, the next with a 



