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107. F. solidifolia F. v. M. 



Derby ; Goody Goody, May, Meda, Lennard, Fitzroy, Hann 



Rivers (W.V.F.)."^ 

 On dry sandy rises. 



108. F. microcarpa F. v. M. 



Goody Goody, May, Meda, Lennard, Fitzroy, and Ord Rivers 



(W.V.F.). 

 On dry sandy rises. 



109. F. barbata Benth. 



Dampier's Archipelago (Walcott) N.W. coast (Alex. Forrest) ; 



Sunday Island ; Broome (W.V.F.). 

 In sandy spots. 



110. F. arthrostyloides (W.V.F.) n. sp. 



Rhizome thick and short, the roots woolly-tomentose ; stems 

 leafless and densely tufted, erect, slender, 5-angled, very 

 scabrous, with scattered setulose bristles ; sheathing 

 scales bristly-hairy, the basilar ones membranous, broadly 

 lanceolate, terminating in short subulate points ; cauline 

 sheaths near the base, few, terminating in filiform points 

 of |in. or less in length ; spikelets 1 -flowered, 1 to several, 

 sessile in a terminal head, each spikelet ovate, glabrous 

 or slightly pubescent ; outer bracts several, 2 quite or 

 nearly as long as the spikelets, lanceolate *ubulat(?, mar- 

 gined by long bristly hairs, those subtending each spikelet 

 gradually passing into the glumes ; glumes 3-4 only ; inner 

 flowering glume conspicuously keeled, obscurely 5-7 

 nerved, ovate-lanceolate, the 2nd the longest, the others 

 gradually smaller, lanceolate, acute, keeled, obscurely 

 7-nerved ; flowers hermaphrodite, stamens 3 ; filaments 

 short ; anthers linear terminating in almost acute white 

 tips ; style compressed, glabrous, much thickened at the 

 base, conspicuously articulate on the nut and deciduous 

 at the articulation after flowering ; style-branches 3, 

 recurved, simply stigmatic or slightly plumose, as long as 

 or slightly longer than the entire portion of the style ; nut 

 ovate, globose, obtusely triangular, on a short thick stipes, 

 tuberculate. Artesian Range (W.V.F. ). 



Stems 1^— 2ft. high. Sheathing scales reddish-brown. 



Spikelets 3-4 lines long, brown. Anthers nearly 2 lines long, 

 yeUow. Nuts above 1 line long, white. 



Among sandstone and quartzite rocks. The species is separ- 

 ated from Section Abildgaardia of Fimbristyhs by the 

 1-flowered spikelets. It closely approaches Arthrostylis , 

 R. Br. 



