Cyperm.] CLII. OYPERAGEiE. 1785 



9. C. cephalotes (capitate), VaJd.; Kimth, Emm. ii, 48 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 vii. 263. Stems from about 6in. to above 1ft. high. Spikelets small and 

 numerous, densely crowded into a sessile globular or conical compound head about 

 |in. diameter. Involuoral bracts with a lanceolate base, 2 or 3 very long, often 

 above 1ft. Spikelets imbricate or at length spreading, pale coloured or varied 

 with brown, flat, 2 to 3 lines long, and 1 to IJ line broad, 10 to 20-flowered, 

 the short rhaehis not winged. Glumes rather spreading, concave or navicular, 

 obscurely several-nerved, the acutely prominent keel sometimes minutely ciliate. 

 Stamens usually 2. Style undivided or unequally 2-cleft, rarely 8-cleft. Nut 

 ovate, flattened, rather shorter than the glume, the broader inner face next the 

 rhaehis, the back convex, the lower part of the pericarp thickened into a white 

 cellular mass projecting in 2 or 8 lobes up the angles of the upper thin seed- 

 bearing part, and falsely described as an adnate perigynium. — Anosporum 

 monocephahtm, Nees ; Boeckel. in Linnnea, xxxvi. 441 ; F. v. M. Fragm. viii. 272 ; 

 Cypenis Hookerianus, Thw. Enum, Ceyl. PI. 342. 



Hab.: Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. Rather widely spread over E. India. 



10. C. platystylis (style broad), U. Br. Prod. 241 ; BentJi. Fl. Austr. vii. 

 261. Stems tufted, rather stout, not above 1ft. high. Leaves rather broad, 

 shorter and mostly much shorter than the stem, with flattened acutely keeled 

 sheaths. Umbel very compact, of about 6 rayi, the longest under lin. Spikelets 

 6 to 12 in the clusters. Involucral bracts 1 or 2 longer than the inflorescence 

 and 1 or 2 short. Spikelets brown, flat but rather thick, 4 to 6 lines long, IJ 

 line broad, acute, the rhaehis not winged. Glumes very regularly distichous and 

 imbricate, broadly concave, the lower ones obtuse, the upper ones acute, the keel 

 slightly prominent sometimes produced into a short point, the nerves very faint. 

 Style 2 or 8-cleft, flattened or triquetrous in the upper part, the angles ciliate. 

 Nut oblong or oval-oblong, as long as the glume, the flat face next the rhaehfs, 

 the back convex. 



Hab.: Queensland, F. v. Mueller. 



The style is quite that ol Fimhrlttylii , all the other characters those of Cyperut. 



11 . C alopecuroides (Alopeenrus-like), Botth. Deacr. et Ic. PL 83, t. 8. /. 2 ; 

 Benth. Fl. Ansti: vii. 264. Stems tufted at the base, stout and triquetrous, 

 attaining 8 or 4ft. Leaves Shorter, rather numerous. Umbel large, compound 

 but very irregular, the rays rigid, erect, the longer ones sometimes at least Bin. 

 long, sometimes all short and compact, the spikelets very numerous, and densely 

 crowded all round the rhaehis, in cylindrical spikes of 1 to l^^in., occupying the 

 whole or the greater part of the secondary rays. Involucral bracts several, the 

 outer ones from a broad base sometimes 1 to 2ft. long, rarely all shorter than the 

 inflorescence. Spikelets lanceolate, not very flat, mostly about 2 lines long and 

 under 1 line broad, pale-coloured, 8 to 12-flo\vered, or rarely longer with more 

 flowers, the rhaehis angular but not winged. Glumes broad, concave, with 

 several not very prominent nerves, the keel prominent in the upper part only, and 

 often produced into a short spreading point, Stamens 2 or rarely 3. Style 

 2-cleft, 1 branch often very short, rarely 3-eleft. Nut obovate, scarcely half the 

 length of the glume, much flattened, the broad inner face next the rhaehis, the 

 back convex or with a raised central angle. — B. Br. Prod. 217 ; Kunth, Enum. 

 ii. 19 ; Boeckel. in Linnsea, xxxvi. 321 ; F. v. M. Fragm. viii. 263. 



Hab.: Shoalwater Bay, i?. iSrowu ; Ovaeemeve, O'Shanesy. 



' 12. C. pulchellus (pretty), B. Br. Prod. 218 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. vii. 265. A 

 small slender plant with the habit of Kyllinga wonocephala, but probably annual. 

 Stems rarely above Bin. high. Leaves much shorter, few and narrow or almost 

 setaceous, Spikelets numerous, in a dense globular sessile head 3 to 4 lines 

 diameter, Involuqral bracts usually 3, spreading or reflexed, tyro of them much 



