92 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [ Cyperacee. 
lato compressissimo hinc plano inde convexiusculo marginibus scabris, panicula coaretata ovato-lanceolata 
subdensa involucro breviore v. rarius longiore, ramis brevibus subsimplicibus, spiculis alternis approximatis, 
squamis ovatis acuminato-aristatis puberulis.—Kunth, En. ii. 316. L. squamatum, Lab. fid. Nees in Ann. 
and Mag. Nat. Hist. vi. 47. (Gunn, 983.) (Tas. CXLVII. A.) 
Has. Sand-hills: Circular Head and Georgetown, Gunn.—(Fl. April.) 
DistriB. New South Wales and Victoria. 
A short, robust species, 1-2 feet high, with broad, very flat leaves and culms for the size of the species, and 
a short panicle.—Cuims + inch broad, with scabrous margins. Panicle 1-2 inches long, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, 
with short, simple branches, bearing a few alternate but close-set spikelets. The erect, rigid, involucral leaf is 
generally longer than the panicle.—Of this species there are specimens in the British Museum, named Z. concava, 
Br.; it is well distinguished from the plant for which I have retained that name by the short panicle and long 
involueral bract.—PrATE CXLVII. 4. Fig. 1, spikelet; 2, scale and flower; 3, pistil and stamens :—all magnified. 
7. Lepidosperma angustifolia (Hook. fil.) ; gracilis, 3-4-pedalis, culmis 4 poll. latis compressis 
utrinque convexiusculis marginibus asperulis, panicula elongata tenui gracili, ramis brevibus gracilibus, 
spiculis parvis alternis approximatis, squamis acuminatis, sguamulis hypogynis lanceolatis. (Gunn, 576.) 
(Tas. CXLVII. 2.) 
Has. Penquite, near Launceston, Gunn.— (Fl. April.) 
A very slender species, with an erect, slender, sparingly branched panicle.—Culms 3-4 feet high, 4 inch broad, 
bases (and sheaths of the leaves) red-brown, much compressed but concave on both surfaces, solid within, margins 
most minutely roughened. Panicle a span long, with alternate, suberect or recurved, slender branches. Spikelets 
small, yy inch long, alternate, approximate, with acuminate scales.—PrATE CXLVI. B. Fig. 1, spikelet; 2, scale 
and flower; 3, pistil and stamens :—all magnified. 
8. Lepidosperma linearis (Br. Prodr. 235) ; 12-18-pollicaris, foliis falcatis culmisque 5-5 poll. 
latis utrinque convexis vix striatis marginibus leeviusculis, panicula v. spica ovata composita curva, ramis 
brevibus paucifloris, spiculis approximatis, squamis acuminatis puberulis, squamulis hypogynis ovatis aris- 
tato-acuminatis.—Kunth, En. ìi. 318. (Gunn, 1497.) 
Has. Tasmania, Brown; Penquite, near Launceston, Gunn.— (Fl. winter.) 
DIsTRIB. Victoria. 
This is possibly the Z. squamata of Labillardiére, whose figure it closely resembles in habit and size, ete., but 
Brown describes the eulms of that plant, of which I have examined specimens in the British Museum, as plane on 
one surface, which these are not, and the leaves as shining at the base, which also is not the case with this 
plant. The present is the smallest of the Tasmanian flat-culmed species; it forms large tufts 12-18 inches high, 
with numerous, rigid, curved, very narrow leaves, and culms ¿1 inch broad, convex and striolate (not grooved) 
on both surfaces, and very minutely roughened at the margins. Panicle 1-14 inch long, young and imperfect in 
my specimens, sparingly branched, and few-flowered. 
9. Lepidosperma globosa (Lab. Nov. Holl. i. 16. t. 14); gracilis, 1—2-pedalis, foliis falcatis, cul- 
mis d rz poll. latis utrinque convexis marginibus scaberulis, spica pauciflora composita, ramis 4—5 alternis 
brevissimis 2-3-floris involucris partialibus brevioribus, spiculis parvis turgidis, squamis acuminatis, nucibus 
trigonis, squamulis hypogynis minimis.— Kun, En. ii. 318. 
Has. Recherche Bay, Labillardióre ; stony places near Brown's River, Oldfield. 
Very similar to L. linearis, but less rigid.— Leaves faleate, margins smooth, sheaths shining. Culm erect, 
2015 inch broad, compressed, convex on both surfaces, margins scaberulous. Panicle, or rather, branched spike, 
the smallest and fewest-flowered of the flat-culmed section, not an’ inch long, erect, with three or four alternate, 
