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rather distant, short branches, each 4 inch long, bearing two or three spikelets, shorter than the bracts from whose 
axils they spring. Spikelets small, J inch long, close together. Scales acuminate. Nut trigonous, with very small 
hypogynous scales. 
10. Lepidosperma squamata (Lab. Nov. Holl. i. 17, t. 16); pedalis, foliis angustis strictiusculis 
culmisque subeequilongis +--> unc. latis utrinque convexiusculis et lineis profunde sulcatis notatis, vaginis 
nitidis, panicula ovata, ramis paucifloris.— Br. Prodr. 235; Kunth, En. ii. 318. 
Has. Tasmania, Zabillardiöre, Brown. 
I have no specimens of this, which I follow Brown in referring to Labillardiere's Z. squamata, though L. linearis, 
Br., appears to me more closely to resemble Labillardiŵre's figure. The present differs from Z. linearis chiefly in 
the shining sheaths of the leaves, and slender grooves on the leaves and culms. 
b. Oulm and leaves angled. 
11, Lepidosperma tetragona (Lab. Nov. Holl. i. 17. t. 17); culmo pedali obtuse angulato, foliis 
tetragonis, panicula coarctata, ramis parum divisis.— Br. Prodr. 235. An Kunth, En. ii. 819? L. aus- 
tralis, Nod. in Fl. N. Zeal. i. 279. Vauthiera australis, 4. Rich. Fl. N, Zeal. 107. t. 20. 
Has. Recherche Bay, Zabillardiere. 
Distris. New Zealand. 
I have seen no Tasmanian specimens of this species, which I have described in the ‘Flora Nove Zelandie ’ 
as L. australis.—A tufted, rigid, almost leafless, Rush-like Sedge. Culms 1-13 foot high, quite smooth, irregularly 
three- or four-angled, compressed or tetraquetrous, striated. Sheaths with rigid, subulate, compressed, three- or 
four-angled, erect leaves, 2-8 inches long. Spikelets crowded, spiked or fascicled, pale-brown, forming a terminal, 
short, oblong capitulum 3 inch long. Bract shortly sheathing, with a subulate, erect point. Bracteoles mucro- 
nate, striate; scales six to eight, acuminate, terminal one with a single flower. Stamens and stigmas 3.  Hypo- 
gynous scales six, connate into a six-lobed cup.—Kunth appears to have described Cladium junceum for this plant. 
c. Culm and leaves terete or nearly so. 
12. Lepidosperma filiformis (Lab. Nov. Holl. i. 17. t. 15); cespitosa, gracilis, 12-18-uncialis, 
culmis basi polyphyllis foliisque subfiliformis strictis erectis subcompressis, spica 2-3-flora involucro «equi- 
longa, spiculis anguste lanceolatis bracteolam aristatam subsequantibus, squamis lanceolatis acutis, sguamulis 
hypogynis subulatis.—Chapelliera pauciflora, Nees, fid. Mueller. (Gunn, 1439.) 
Has. Recherche Bay, Zabillardiere ; Arthur's Lakes, Gunn ; wet ground near Brown's River, O/d- 
Jield.— (F1. Feb.) 
DistriB. Victoria, near Mount Abrupt, Mueller. 
A perfectly smooth, very slender, tufted species, much resembling Cladium Gunnii, H.f., 12-18 inches high, 
with numerous slender, erect leaves at the base of the culm.— Leaves grooved down the front, terete or very slightly 
angular or compressed. Spike simple, 4-4 inch long, of two or three alternate, erect spikelets, arising from the 
axil of an erect, subulate, involucral leaf. Spikelet narrow, + inch long.—Mueller's specimens have an obscure 
groove down the culm as well as on the leaves; the nut is grey, obovate, trigonous, and the hypogynous scales are 
very minute. 
Gen. XI, OREOBOLUS, Br. 
Flos solitarius, glumis deciduis 2 inclusus. Perianthium e squamis 6 biseriatis cartilagineis, post lap- 
sum nucis pedunculo elongato persistens. Stamina 3. Stylus deciduus ; stigmatibus 3. Nus obovata, 
crustacea, apice areola depressa. — Planta humilis, rigida, cæspites convexos amplos in summis montibus 
efformans ; culmis divisis, foliis distiche equitantibus v. undique imbricatis dense vestitis; foliis lineari- 
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