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This in many respects agrees with Brown's description of D. Patersoni, Br., but both spathes are equally 
hispid. The spathes are in this species separated, the upper being distinctly pedicelled.— Leaves pilose, with rigid, 
spreading hairs, very much shorter than the numerous, strict, pilose scapes. Capitulum 4 inch broad. Spathes 
very broad, concave, hispid, with membranous margins, and very short, mucronate or subaristate apices. 
3. Centrolepis fascicularis (Lab. Nov. Holl. i. p. 7. t. 1); dense cespitosa, foliis basi pilosis 
scapis glabris brevioribus, spathis hispidis retusis aristatis, receptaculo epaleaceo, floribus 8-10 2-glumibus, 
glumis bifidis, ovariis 3-5, stylis basi connatis.— Desvauz, in Ann. Sc. Nat. 1828, xlii. t. 2. SJ. 4; Endl. 
leon. t. 49; Kunth, En. ii. 489. Desvauxia Billardieri, Br. Prodr. 252. (Gunn, 957.) 
Has. Abundant in wet, heathy plains, forming large matted patches.—(Fl. Dec., Jan.) 
DisrRIB. New South Wales and Victoria. 
A very densely-tufted species, 1-2 inches high, with membranous, pilose sheathes to the leaves, glabrous, 
rather rigid scapes, and hispid spathes, which are broadly retuse at the apex, and furnished with an erect, rigid, 
stout arista, as long as the lamina. Flowers numerous ; glumes two, bifid, ciliated. 
4. Centrolepis pulvinata (Rem. et Schult. Syst. i. 43) ; foliis scapos subeguantibus, spathis mu- 
ticis valvula inferiore hispidiuscula, superiore glabra, receptaculo paleaceo, stylis 6-7 distinetis.—Desv. in 
Ann. Sc. Nat. 1828, xlii. £. 2. f. 3; Kunth, En. Pl. iii. 489. Desvauxia pulvinata, Br. Prodr. 252 ; Guill. 
Ic. ith. t 17. 
Ha». Tasmania, Brown. 
Distris. South-west Australia. 
I have seen no Tasmanian specimens of this species, which is smaller than either C. fascicularis or tenuior, 
has awnless spathes, the lower of which only is hispid, has leaves as long as the scapes, and six to seven distinct 
styles. 
Gen. VIII. ALEPYRUM, Br. 
Capitulum solitarium, terminale, 1- v. pauci-florum, bracteis spathisve 2 inclusum. Flores hermaphroditi, 
uniglumes v. eglumes, monandri, mono-polygami. Utrieuli extus longitudinaliter dehiscentes. — Herbe 
pusilla, cespitose ; radicibus fibrosis ; foliis setaceis ; scapis filiformibus, nudis, indivisis ; spathis alternis, 
approximatis, aristatis muticisve. 
Alepyrum is a reduced form of Centrolepis, in which the flowers are few, and the glumes absent, or reduced to 
one. With the exception of a New Zealand alpine species, the genus is confined to extratropical Australia and 
Tasmania. The 4. monogynum is intermediate between Alepyrum and Centrolepis. (Name from a, privative, and 
Aervpov, a covering ; from the imperfect flowers.) 
1. Alepyrum monogynum (Hook. fil); dense ceespitosum, muscoideum, foliis subulatis culmos 
subzquantibus, spathis lanceolatis, floribus 2, gluma lineari-lanceolata, ovario solitario. (Gunn, 1434.) 
(Tas. CXXXVIII. 2.) | 
Has. Moist subalpine situations: margin of Lake St. Clair, and near Marlborough, Gunn. — (Fl. Jan.) 
Plants forming small, pale-green, dense tufts, 4 inch high, with numerous, matted, white, fibrous roots, some- 
what resembling Scleranthus.—Leaves as long as the scapes. Flowers two, enclosed in lanceolate spathes. Glume 
one. Ovary solitary.—PraATE CXXXVIII. B. Fig. 1, leaf; 2, spathes and flowers; 3, spathe; 4, flower and 
glume; 5, utricle, burst open; 6, seed; 7, diagram of spathe, glume, stamen, and pistil :—all very highly magni- 
fied. 
2. Alepyrum muscoides (Hook. fil.) ; caulibus dense ceespitosis muscoideis, foliis scapos superan- 
tibus, spathis lanceolatis aristatis inferiore longiore, floribus 4, gluma 0, ovariis sub-6-8. 
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