1752 • CLII. CYPEEACE^. [Kijltingai 



No second flower. Nut ovate, pale, much shorter than the glume. 



Larger glumes nearly equal, acutely keeled ', , . . • 2. K. inoiKjccpluila^ 



Central head, of spikelets oblong-cjliiidrieal, with or without 2 or more i 



shorter lateral ones. No second flower. Larger glume scarcely keeled. 

 Nut large, broad, usually very dark. Head ot spikelets usually single . 3. A', cyliiidrica. 

 Nut narrow, pale. Heads of spikelets 3 to .5 : i- J''- triceps. 



1. K. intermedia (intermediate), li. Br. Prod. 219; Benth FI. 'Aic^tr. \ii. 

 2~'l. Stems from a creeping rhizome, slender, 6in. to above 1ft. high. Leaves- 

 grass-Hke, about 1 line broad, much shorter than the stem. Involucre of about 

 3 very unequal narrow bracts. Flower-head single, globular, about S lines 

 diameter, the spikelets rather more acuminate and spreading than "in TT. mono-, 

 cf.phala, about 1-^ line long. The two larger glumes several-neryed without any- 

 very prominent" keel, the innermost considerably larger than the other, and 

 enclosing usually a second male-flower in a small hyali4e glume, the lowesf: 

 empty glumes .usually close under the larger ones and falling ofl' with . them.; 

 Nut ovate, pale-coloured, nearly as long- as the glumes.:^ A', bren' folia, Ivottb. ;' 

 Clarke in Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 589. . . ' ,, 



Hab.: Bockharapton, O'Sluvicaij \ Moreton Lay or' neigbbowhood, LelcUhurdt. A common 

 weed in southern localities. , . , 



This species apparently the commonestin Australia is also in Ne-w Calendonia and in East- 

 India. ■ - ■ 



2. K. monocephala (head single), Rotth. Ic. ct Descr. PI. 13, t. 4, f.Aj, 

 Pcnth. Fi. Austr. vii. 251. Stems tufted but often decumbent or stolouiferous atr 

 the base or from a long creeping- rhizome, rarely above Iftv high and often only 

 6in. Leaves shorter than the stem and very narrow in the typical form. 

 Involucral bracts long and narrow. Flower-head or spike globular or evoid,. 

 about 8 lines diameter or sometimes lengthening to 4 lines, solitary or very 

 rarely Avith a small one on each' side. Spikelets 1-fiowered, the larger glumes 

 nearly equal or the inner one rather longer especially when in fruit, many-nerved 

 with a prominent usually ciliate keel,. Nut broadly ovate or obovate, pale- 

 coloured, much shorter than the gluiii'e. — R. Br.' Ptod. 219 ; Kunth, Enum. ii. 

 129; Boeckel. in LinniEa,'xxxv. 427; /i'. yuwjfoi Mich. ; Kunth, Enura. ii. 132, 

 at least as to the Australian plant ;' Ciiprrus monocephalus, F. v. M. Fragm. viii.. 

 271. 



Hab.: Eockingliam Bay, DaUui:liij ;<Rockhan)pton, O'Shaiiesy.. A common Aveed in southern 

 localities. ' . . 



Var. latifolia. Leaves and involuci'al bracts 1^ to 2 lines broad. — Moretftn Bay", T.euhhardt; 

 Johnstone liiver, DaHac/»/ : Bockliampton, Tliotet. 



The species is common in tropical Asia and Africa. 



3. K. cylindrica (oylindric). Net's; Kunth, Enum. ii. 183; Benth. f I. Austr. 

 vii. 2.52. llhizome tufted or shortly creeping. Stems from 6in. to above 1ft. 

 high, the leaves much shorter. Involucral bracts rather long, spreading or 

 reflexed. Flower-heads nearly white, or spikes pblong-cylindrical, 5 to 6 lines- 

 long' when fully out, solitary or with a small globular head on each side. Spike- 

 lets 1-flowered, the larger glumes broader than in the other spefcies, ratlier above- 

 1 line long, nearly equal, the keel not very prominent, with 3 or 4 nerves on each 

 •side, the articulation usually immediately below the larger glumes leaving the 

 lower smaller one more persistent on the base of the stipes- or rhachis or falling 

 off separately. Nat broad, black, nearly as long as the glumes. — Bceckel. in 

 Linnfea, xsxv. 415. , , 



Hab.: Brisbane Biver, Moreton BaJ, F. v. Mueller, Bailey. Very common on sandy land, 

 inland. 



The plant scarcely differs from the East Indian one. 



4. K. triceps (3-headed), Rottb. Jr. et Descr. PL 14, t. 4, /. 6; Benth. FL. 

 Austr. vii. 252. Stems' tilftfed," not' creeping, but the rhizome at length rather 

 thick and shortly horizontal, from 6in. to about 1ft. high. Leaves much shorter- 



