108 MONOCOTYLEDONEX. TRIGLOCHIN. 
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vestitum. Folia e basi cylindrica, dilatato-vaginante, complanata, 
obtusa, fluitantia, 4-10 mill. lata, scapum æquantia vel superantia, 
vagina antice fissa, superne mutica nec in ligulam producta. Seapus 
 Swpius unicus, simplex, cylindricus vel obscure angulatus, in parte 
superiore floriferus. Flores numerosissimi, in racemum densum dis- 
positi, sub anthesi sessiles, postea breviter pedicellati, pedicellis 
fructu semper brevioribus. Perigonii laciniæ exteriores late ovatæ, 
obtusæ, concavæ, interiores paullo minores. Ovaria 6 (rarius pat- 
ciora), anguste ovata, stigmate recurvo, intus papilloso coronata, 
uniovulata, 2 mill. longa. Carpella omnino libera, 7-8 mill. longa, 
recta vel plus minusve falcato-curvata, stigmatis vestigio acuminata. 
dorso tricostata, lateraliter compressa, parietibus coriaceis ; columna 
centralis nulla. Semina 5 mill. longa, plus minusve curvata, testa 
membranacea, lævi. Variat carpellis a basi curvatis, fere lunatis (var. 
eleutherocarpa Benth. 1. c.). 
8, gracilis; planta minor et in omnibus partibus gracilior; scapus 
^ 40-50 cent..altus; folia lineari-complanata, vix 1 mill. lata; flores 
omnino varietatis majoris, in spica remotiores (T. lineare Endl. ; 
dubium Brown ex specimine in herb. Brown in Brit. Mus. servato). 
In aquis stagnantibus Australie precipue extratropicæ et Tasma- 
niae frequens, à plerisque viatoribus collecta (Brown, Drummond 
n. 314, Preiss n. 2405 et 2406, Hügel, Caley, Wavra, Gunner, etc.). 
SECTIO III. — PSEUDOTRIGLOCHIN. 
Ovaria libera, carpella denique in fructum coalita. 
9. Tr. Maundii (Mueller Fragm. 6, p. 83); scapo erecto, superne 
florifero; floribus sessilibus; perigonio 2-4 partito, coriaceo-persistente: 
staminibus 6, loculis a basi diseretis, apice apiculatis; ovariis 94 
liberis, postea in fructum alatum coalitis. — Benth. Fl. Austral.f. 
p. 169. Maundia Ito RUM Muell. Fragm. 1, p. 22. 
9| Herba erectasc. 1 met. alta. Rhizoma vix notum, bipartitun? 
. et fibrillis radicalibus obduetum. Folia imperfecte nota, scapum sub- 
æquantia, semi-cylindrica, intus lacunosa, c. 7 mill. lata, vaginantia- 
Scapus erectus, cylindrieus, intus lacunosus, superne floriferus. Flores 
in spicam plus minusve laxam dispositi, sessiles, post anthesin div 
ricato-patentes. Perigonium pro parte abortivum ; laciniæ ex 
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