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minis emergentes. Culmi 1-3 pedales erecti simplices complanati sul- 
cato-striati intus fistulosi. Vaginæ caudicales compressæ amplexicaules 
integrænec fissæ, superne ligulâ parvareflexamunitæ et in laminam seu 
petiolum foliaceum instar folii Poæ annuæ extensæ. Vaginæ culmeæ 
remotiusculæ arctæ olivaceæ glabræ striatulatæ apice tenuiores acu- 
tiusculæ muticæ. Spiculæ masculæ oo in cymam paniculiformem ter- 
minalem erectam laxam pluristachyam pies singuke 7-8 cent. 
long. erectæ oblongo-ovatæ plurifloræ pedicello gracili imposito. 
Bractec arcte imbricatæ oblongæ sensim longeque acuminatæ flores 
inasculos fere duplo superantes. Perianthii segmenta 4 per paria de- 
cussata ; externa lateralia oblongo-lanceolata acuta naviculari-condu- 
plicata anguste alato-carinata; interna antero-postica planiuscula 
conformia tenuiora. Filamenta 2 capillaria. Antheræ flavidæ muticæ: 
Inflorescentia feminea masculine conformis nisi minus ramosa 
spiculisque paucioribus. Spiculæ oblongæ ovatæ acutæ 2-floræ 5-6 mill. 
quandoque ad 10-12 mill. long. Bracteæ oblongæ ovatæ ferru- 
gineæ subcoriaceæ longiuscule acuminato-aristatæ flores (aristà hand 
inclusa) vix æquantes. Perianthii segmenta externa lateralia Nei pA 
cula subfusca oblonga acuta naviculari-conduplicata ; segmenta in- 
terna late ovato-lanceolata externis parum longiora et latiora. Stami- 
nodia 2. Capsula compressa suborbicularis didyma 2- locularis vel- 
abortu 1-locularis oblique ovoidea. Styli duo simplices exserti. Se 
men fuscum obsolete impresso-punctulatum. 
In Australia a fluvio Glenelg's River Australiæ felicis saltem usque 
ad flumen Hastings River. Occurrit quoque sparse per tolam Tas- 
maniam, ibidem sicut in ACH continentali ad summas alpes pene- 
trans(F. Muell.). In Australi orientali ad Port dackson(R: Brown 
d etQ; C . Moore d'; Sieber 8; Lhotsky); Hastings River (Beckler (4); 
Twofold Bay (F. Mueller) ler) Q; Gaudichaud). In Australia felici, Victo- 
ria, Robertson) ; ad montes Grampians (F. Mueller Sullivan Q). In 
Tasmania ad Derwent River (R. Brown), prope circular Head et 
George Town (Gunn 962). Southport (C. Stuart 4). 
91. R. tremulus (R. Br. Prod. p. 245); culmis cæspitosis compres- 
sis sulcatis ; vaginis arctis foliaceo-mucronatis; spiculis masculis sub- 
globosis tenui-pedunculatis pendulis laxe paniculatim cymosis ; stami- 
nodiis nullis; stylis duobus. — Kunth Enum. 3, p. 416; Steud. Synops. 
2, p. 255; F. Muell. Fragm. 8, p. 70; Benth. FI. Austral. 7. ined. R. 
boe Steud. phi 2, p. 295. 
2% Rad fil i Culmi fertiles cæspitosi 30-100 cent. 
erecti compressi ancipites sulcato- striati vix fistulosi remote vaginali : 
Culmi steriles quam fertiles breviores magis ramosi. Vaginæ circa 
2 cent. long. arcte tubulatæ coriaceæ compressæ, ad m albido- 
SUITES AU Prodromus. 
