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Section VI. — Spikeleta small, numerous, terete or scarcely flattened, 1 or 

 2- flowered, the short enclosed rachis bordered by hyaline wings. Flowering 

 glumes imbricate when more than 1. Style 3-cleft. Nut triquetrous. 



Spikelet usually with 2 perfect flowers, in small globular clusters in a 

 compound umbel of many rays. — 7 . C. decompositus. 



Spikelets with 1 or rarely 2 perfect flowers, in loose cylindrical spikes in a 

 compound umbel. — 2. C. Ajmstrongii. 



Spikelets usually with 1 perfect flower, in dense ovoid or 3-lobed heads in a 

 simple umbel. — 5. C. conicus. 



1. C. angustatus, R. Br. — ^North Coast, R. Brown ; Port Darwin, Schultz 

 (No. 259). 



2. G. Armstrongii. Benth. — Port Essington, Armstrong ; Port Darwin, 

 Schultz (No. 731). 



3. C. articulatus, Linn. — Port Essington, Armstrong. 



4. C. carinatus, E. Br. — North Coast, R. Brown ; M'Adam Range, F. v. 

 Mueller ; between Norinan and Gilbert Rivers, Gulliver. 



5. C. conicus, Boeckel.—La,ndeT Creek, G. F. Hill (No. 299), 10/6/1911. 

 Edith Creek, Gilruth and Spencer, July-August, 1911. 



Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; Port Darwin, Schultz (No. 603, 709.) 



6. C. dacUjloles, Benth.— Launder Creek, G. F. HiU (No. 318), 10/6/1911. 

 Recorded. Attack Creek, M'Douall Stuart. 



7. C. decompositus, F. v. M. — Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown 



8. C. difformis, Linn.— Lake Woods, G. F. Hill, (No. 488), 2/8/11. 

 Recorded. Charlotte Waters, Giles. 



9. C. diphyllvs, Retz. (C. corymbosus, Retz.). — Port Essington, Arm- 

 strong. 



10. C. elevsionides, Kunth. — ^Nebo, Gulliver. 



11. C. exaltatus, Retz. — ^North Coast, R. Brown ; Albert River, Henne ; 

 Flinders River, F. v. Mueller. 



12. C. flavicomus, Mich. — (C. Hochstetteri, Nees). — Head of Sturt's 

 Creek, F. v. Mueller ; Arnhem's Land, M'Kinlay. 



13. C. fulvu^, R. Br. — Charlotte Waters, Giles. 



14. C. Gilesii, Benth. — Charlotte Waters, Giles. 



15. G. Qunnii, Fooyfc.— Lander Creek, G. F. Hill (No. 298), 10/6/11. 

 Recorded. Dampier's Archipelago, A. Cuimingham, Walcot. 



16. C. Haspdn, Linn. — Brunswick Bay, A. Cunningham ; Upper Vic- 

 toria River and M'Adam Range, F. v. MueUer ; Port Darwin, Schultz (No. 310) ; 

 Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. 



17. C. Holoschoenus, R. Br. — Edith Creek, Spencer and Gilruth, July- 

 August, 1911. 



Recorded. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; Amhem Land 

 and Upper Victoria River. 



18. G. Iria, iinw.— Darwin, C. E. F. Allen, (No. 20,), January, 1914. 

 Recorded. Sturt's Creek, F. v. Mueller. 



19. G. polystachyus, Rottb. {var. laxiflora, Benth). — Amhem Land, F. v. 

 MueUer. 



20. C. pukhdlus, R. Br. {G. leucocephalus, Retz.). — Arnhem Bay, R. 

 Brown ; GuK of Carpentaria, F. v. Mueller. 



