Cyperacea. | FLORA OF TASMANIA. 95 
Disrgis. New South Wales and Victoria ; New Zealand. 
Culms stout, tufted, 2 feet high, glabrous, terete, not jointed, soft, with several leaves at the base, and one or 
more above. Leaves terete, subulate. Panicle contracted, 2-4 inches long, with membranous, spathaceous bracts. 
Spikelets very numerous, fascicled, with dark, red-brown scales. Nut three-angled, polished. 
2. Cladium laxiflorum (Hook. fil.) ; culmis teretibus, foliis elongatis tereti-subulatis caulinis nullis, 
panicula breviuscula subramosa pauciflora, spiculis subalternis unifloris, squamis ovato-lanceolatis acutis 
glabris, bracteis subspathaceis, nuce obovoidea turgida apice vix incrassata. (Tas. CXLVIIL A.) 
Has. Swamps near New Norfolk, Oldfield. 
This very distinct species resembles the Australian C. glomeratum, Br., in the terete culms and radical leaves, 
but it is smaller, has no leaf on the sheath or the culm, and the inflorescence is very different. Panicle 14-2 
inches long, of three or four few-flowered branches, arising from spathaceous, long, acuminate bracts. Spikelets 
small, few, not fascicled. Scales pale red-brown, quite glabrous, acute. Nut broadly obovoid, somewhat trigonous, 
with an obscurely thickened, grooved, blunt apex.—PrATE CXLVIII. 4. Fig. 1, spikelet; 2, scale and flower; 
3, pistil; 4, nut :—all magnified. 
3. Cladium junceum (Br. Prodr. 237); aphyllum, culmis gracilibus strictis teretibus basi et sub 
apice vaginatis, vaginis ungue brevi verticali lateraliter compresso terminatis, spiculis spicatis paucis sub- 
geminis sessilibus unifloris, squamis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis dorso scaberulis, muce trigona obovoidea 
apice incrassata hemispheerica puberula.—Kunth, En. ii. 304. Lepidosperma striata, Herb. Mus. Brit. et 
Nob. in Fl. N. Zeal. i. 219, non Br. (Gunn, 969.) 
Has. Abundant in wet, sandy, and heathy places in the northern parts of the Island.—(Fl. Nov., 
Dec.) (v. v.) 
Distris. New South Wales, Victoria, and New Zealand. 
A densely tufted, slender, wiry species, with long, stout, sheathed runners, recognized at once by the terete, 
naked, leafless culms, which bear at the base a long appressed sheath, terminated by a short, laterally flattened, 
sickle-shaped claw or leaflet. The inflorescence is a very short, simple, or sparingly branched, few-flowered spike, 
about an inch long.—I erroneously referred this plant to Lepidosperma striata in the “New Zealand Flora,’ from 
finding it so named in the British Museum Herbarium. 
4. Cladium Gunnii (Hook. fil.) ; culmis nudis gracillimis strictis foliisque paucis »quilongis tereti- 
bus levibus basi vaginatis, vaginis appressis obtusis, panicula gracili, ramis 1-floris brevibus alternis remotis, 
bracteis aristatis, squamis lanceolatis acutis glabris, nuce levi ovoidea breve stipitata obscure tricostata 
apice in mamillam crassam abeunte supra basin subconstricta.—Gahnia sulcata, Mueller? (Gunn, 1498.) 
(Tas. CXLVIII. 2.) 
Has. Near Formosa, Gunn.—(Fl. Dec.) 
Disrris. ? Victoria, Mueller. 
Culms quite leafless above, very slender, terete, wiry, densely tufted, 1-2 feet high. eaves as long as the 
culms, also terete, subulate. Sheaths red, long, with acute apices. Panicle 1-3 inches long, very slender, simple, 
few-flowered, with erect, alternate, rather short branches, arising from small, aristate bracts, and bearing one or two 
small spikelets. Scales pale red-brown, linear-lanceolate, acute. Nut turgid, with a short pedicel, obscurely con- 
stricted above the base, its sides smooth and polished, dark-brown, with three obscure ridges; apex thickened, but 
not conspicuously so.—This is very nearly allied indeed to Gahnia sulcata, Mueller, if it be not the same plant; 
but it is more slender, and the branches of the panicle are shorter.—PraATE CXLVIII. B. Fig. 1, spikelet; 2, scale 
and flower ; 3, pistil; 4, nut :—all magnified. 
5. Cladium tetraquetrum (Hook. fil.) ; robustum, culmis vaginatis compressis, foliis radicalibus acute 
