84 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [ Cyperacee. 
squamis perplurimis, fasciculatis, undique imbricatis, omnibus floriferis, exterioribus majoribus, masculis 
monandris, subterminali hermaphrodito monandro. Nux compressa; stylo valido, basi subincrassato : stig- 
matibus 2, crassis, elongatis.—Herbæ Juneiformes ; culmis cæspitosis, teretibus, basi foliatis ; foliis teretibus, 
basi vaginatis ; vaginis fissis ; capitulo atro-purpureo, excavatione culmi sessili. 
A very remarkable genus, unlike Cyperacee in habit, and quite resembling many species of Juncus in the 
tufted habit, terete culm and radical leaves, which latter have split sheaths.—Spikelets very densely aggregated 
into a globose head, which is sunk in a canal on the side of the culm, of very numerous, fasciculate scales, 
which are equal in length, and imbricated all round ; the majority of these are male, and have each one stamen; 
the central flower alone is hermaphrodite, and consists of one stamen and one compressed nut, with a stout style 
and two stout stigmas.— C. enodis is a rigid, glabrous herb, a span to 18 inches high, with striated, unjointed 
culms and leaves, both of which terminate in subulate, almost pungent apices. Capitulum dark purple-black, 2-2 
inch in diameter, depressed, with two or three concave, very broad, coriaceous, involucrate scales at its base. Spike- 
lets broadly obovate. Scales obovate-cuneate, all trifid, or sometimes quadrifid (more or less irregularly), the points 
acuminate, a little recurved; back and margins towards the apices woolly with purple hairs; inner scales much 
narrower and more membranous, hyaline. Anthers yellow. Pistil dark-purple. (Name from xwpis, apart, and 
avnp, a man ; in allusion to the solitary stamens.) 
l. Chorizandra enodis (Nees, Pl. Preiss. ii. 73) ; culmis foliisque inarticulatis gracilibus, capitulo 
depresse globoso exserto, squamulis 3—5-fidis obovato-cuneatis apice lanatis. (Gunn, 1401.) 
Has. Wet places near Georgetown, Gunn.—(Fl. Oct.) e 
DisrarB. Victoria (Hopkins River), Mueller; Swan River, Drummond. 
Gen. VI. CARPHA, Banks et Sol. 
Spicule fasciculate, erectee, uniflores. Squame distichee, inferiores minores, vacuz ; 2 superiores sub- 
opposite, magna; terminali anguste lineari. Sete hypogynee 3-6, longe plumose, squamis æquilongæ. 
Nuz stipitata, prismatica, obovata ; stylo basi longe fusiformi, persistente; stigmatibus 2—3.— Herbs cespi- 
tose ; foliis Zinearibus ; culmo tereti; fasciculis spieularum bractea foliacea subtensis. 
There are only three species of this genus known to me, of which the present is closely allied to C. schonoides 
of Fuegia, and the third (C. deusta) is a native of New South Wales. The C. alpina is a tufted, grass-like herb, 
with numerous, rigid, narrow-linear, radical leaves, 2-4 inches long, with rather blunt apices, concave faces, and 
glabrous or scaberulous sides and margin.—Culms slender, erect, cylindrie or rather compressed, a span to a foot 
high, with one or two leaves. ` Cauline leaves or bracts with a long, entire sheath, each bearing a peduncled, sub- 
corymbose fascicle of large, pale-yellow, shining spikelets; lower fascicle (when two) on a long, slender, inclined 
peduncle. Spikelets $ inch long, of about five or six distichous scales, of which the two lowest are small, subulate, 
lanceolate, and empty; the two succeeding are very large, opposite, concave and compressed, lanceolate, acuminate, 
scarious, enclosing one flower between them ; the uppermost scale is linear and small. Hypogynous sete in two 
series, as long as the longest scales, densely plumose. Nut prismatic, with a short style, having a long, conical, 
persistent base. Embryo large, almost globose, but broadly conical at both ends, and hence somewhat shortly fusi- 
form, its lower half surrounded with a layer of indurated albumen, its upper small, with softer albumen above it. 
(Name from xapdos, chaff; in allusion to the glumaceous texture of the scales.) 
1. Carpha alpina (Br. Prodr. 230); foliis rigidis anguste linearibus obtusiusculis supra concavis, 
fasciculis spicularum subcorymboso-paniculatis, inferioribus gracile pedicellatis squamis pallidis, setis hypo- 
gynis 6 longe plumosis apicibus nudis.— 77. N. Zeal. i.273. (Gunn, 1485.) 
Has. Not uncommon on the mountains, alt. 4-5000 ped.—(Fl. Dec., J an.) (v. v.) 
Dsg, Mountains of Victoria and New Zealand. 
