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1. Calorophus elongatus (Lab. Nov. Holl. ii. p. 7. t. 228); culmis basi subfastigiatim ramosis, 
ramulis gracilibus elongatis flexuosis, vaginis ore barbatis, amentis masculis 4—6-floris bractea obtusa bar- 
bata suffultis, glumis 6 linearibus, amentis foemineis 1—3-floris, floribus remotis inferiore 2-glumi ceteris 
6-glumibus.—JVees, in Pl. Preiss. ii. 68; Nob. in FI. N. Zeal. i. 207. — Restio lateriflorus, Br. Prodr. 247 ; 
Kunth, En. i. 419; Sieb. Agrostoth. 29 et 39. Leptocarpus squarrosus, Nees, im Sieb. Agrostoth. 38. 
(Gunn, 599.) 
Var. 8. minor; humilis, fastigiatim ramosus, ramis brevibus gracilibus, amentis masculis 1-2-floris, 
foemineis solitariis.—C. minor, Nob. in Fl. N. Zeal. 1. 267. 
Has. Abundant throughout the Island, in sterile, swampy places. Var. 8. Alpine marshes, alt. 
3—4000 feet.—(Fl. Nov.) (v. v.) 
DrsrnrB. South-eastern and South-western Australia; New Zealand (both varieties). 
Culms pale-green, rigid, wiry, 2-3 feet long, flexuous. Branches slightly compressed. Sheaths with a more 
or less woolly mouth, and patent or recurved apex. The var. B is a much smaller and different-looking plant, 
which I described as a doubtfully new species in the New Zealand Flora; but Gunn considers it the same as 
C. elongatus, and except in its smaller size and fewer flowers, I can find no difference between the Tasmanian 
lowland and alpine states. The New Zealand var. minor has very much more woolly sheaths, with ereet apices. 
Calorophus flexuosus, Nees, and O. erispatus, Nees, are both very nearly allied to this variety, and in some respects 
intermediate between it and C. elongatus. 
Gen. VI. APHELIA, Br. 
Spica solitaria, terminalis, disticha. Sguame@ 1-3-flore, omnes uniflores, hermaphrodite, v. inferiores 
1 v. 2 masculze, 1-3-flore ; floribus uniglumibus, monandris ; cæteræ feminez, uniflore eglumes v. 1-glumes, 
gluma postica monogyna.  Ufricu/us monospermus ; stylo filiformi.—Herbe pusille Cyperi parvuli facie ; 
radicibus fibrosis ; foliis omnibus radicalibus, filiformibus; scapo nudo, indiviso ; spicula compressa, ovata 
v. oblonga. 
A very curious little genus, of which the Tasmanian and Victoria species differ from the original South-west 
Australian A. cyperoides, described by Brown, in the glumes being unisexual, and in the lower scales of the spike 
having several male flowers, and the rest bearing a solitary female one. I have examined four species of this 
section; all are South-west Australian, and two of these are here described.—Minute, tufted, annual, herbaceous 
plants, about an inch high, with capillary leaves and scapes, the latter bearing a solitary, flat; distichous, erect or 
inclined, ovate spikelet. Lower scales longer than the others, forming a kind of involucre, more coriaceous, with a 
subulate, herbaceous limb and apex, and membranous margins. Glumes solitary, of male flowers, minute, lanceo- 
late, membranous, hyaline. Stamens with filiform, flattened filaments, and one-celled, linear anthers. Upper scales 
8-10, broadly ovate, cucullate, obtuse, green, with broad, membranous margins. Utrieulus membranous, linear- 
oblong, bursting externally down the middle. (Name from agens, simple.) 
l. Aphelia Gunnii (Hook. fil.) ; spica inclinata, squama inferiore mascula solitaria aristata invo- 
lucriformi, ceteris femineis ovatis obtusis ecarinatis medio setosis. (Gunn, 1499.) (Tas. CXXXVIII. 
C.) 
Ham. Wet places: Formosa, Gunn.—(Fl. Nov.) 
Disrris. Victoria, Mueller. 
An exceedingly slender leaved and culmed annual weed, scarcely an inch high, with a small, inclined spike.— 
Pirate CXXXVIII. C. Fig. 1, spikelet; 2, lower scale and male flower; 3, upper scale; 4, female; 5, utriculus, 
burst open; 6, seed; 7, diagram of spikelet :—all magnified. 
