60 THE FLOBA 01" THE NOETHERN TERRITORY. 



Series III. — Glomeratce. — Spikelets more or less clustered on the rays of 

 the umbel, and always a central cluster of 2 or more in Ueu of the single central 

 sessile spikelet. Leaves usually numerous. 



Spikelets not above 2 lines long in clusters of 2 or 3, interspersed usually 

 with a few solitary ones. — 10. F. cymosa. • 



Spikelets in clusters of 3 to 10. 



Leaves long, rather glaucous. Spikelets 1 to 1| lines long. — 26. P. 

 multifolia. 



Leaves and inflorescence silky-hairy. Spikelets 2 lines long. 36. — F. 

 macrostachya. 



Series IV. Capitatce. — Spikelets collected in a single terminal head. 

 Glumes obtuse, membraneous. Involucral bracts concealed under the 

 head or rarely 1 one prominent. 



Nut tuberculate. — 7. F. capitata. 

 Nut large. — 7a. F. compacta. 

 Glumes mucronate. Involucral bracts spreading, 1 to 3 longer than the 

 head. Nut smooth or nearly so. — 35. F. Schultzii. 



Section V. Oncostylis. — Style bulbs persistent after the style has fallen, 

 but articulate on the nut and often at length deciduous. — 4. F. barbata. 



1. F. acicularis, R. £r.— Darwin, C. E. F. Allen (No. 165), March, 1914. 

 Recorded. Arnhem Land, F. v. MueUer ; Port Darwin, Schultz (No. 79). 



2. F. cestivalis, Vahl. — ^Near M'Adam Range, F. v. Mueller. 



3. F. androgyna, R. Br. — N. Coast, prob. Arnhem Land, R. Brown. 



4. F. barbata, Benth.—Hxigh. R., G. F. HiU (No. 135), 4/5/11 ; Pine 

 Creek, C. E. F. AUen (No. 83), Feb., 1914. 



Recorded. Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; Dampier's Archipelago, 

 Walcot ; Depot Creek, Upper Victoria River, F. v. MueUer ; Port Darwin, 

 Schultz (No. 170, 211). 



5. F. Brownii, Benth. — Islands off the North Coast, of Arnhem Land, 

 R. Brown. 



6. F. cmspitosa, R. Br. — Arnhem Land and GuU of Carpentaria, R. 

 Brown ; Upper Victoria River, F. v. Mueller ; Sweers Island, Henne. 



7. F. capitata, R. Br. — Upper Victoria and Fitzmaurice Rivers, F. v. 

 MueUer. 



7a. F. compacta. — ^TurrUl, Darwin, C. F. Allen. 



8. F. cardiocarpa, F. v. M. — Darwin, C. E. F. Allen (No. 21), January, 

 1914. 



Recorded. Upper Victoria River, F. v. Mueller. 



9. F. corynocarya, F. v. M. — Depot Creek, Upper Victoria River, F. v. 

 Mueller. 



10. F. cymosa, R. Br. — Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria and Prince 

 of Wales Island, R. Brown ; Escape CUffs, Hulse. 



11. F. cyperoides, R. Br. — Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. BrowTi ; 

 Providence Hill, F. v. Mueller ; Port Darwin, Schultz (No. 658). 



12. F. debilis, F. v. M. — Depot Creek, Upper Victoria River, F. v. MueUer. 



13. F. denudata, R. Br. — Arnhem Land, N. Coast, R. Brown ; Victoria 

 River, F. v. MueUer ; between Norman and Gilbert Rivers, GulUver. 



14. F. depauperata, R. Br. — Arnhem Land, N. Coast, R. Brown. 



15. F. dichotoma, Vahl. — ^Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. 



