Fimbriitylis.] CLII. CYPEKACEJE, 1765 



often the uppermost empty or with imperfect flowers. Stamens 3. Style 

 slender, nearly glabrous, more ciliat^ at the base ; branches 3. Nut obovoid, 

 8-ribbed, white, tuberculate. 

 Hab.: Bodkingham Bay, Dallachy ; Kockhampton, O'Shanesy. 



25. F. obtusangula (obtusely angled), F. v. M. Fragm, i. 198 ; Benth, I'l. 

 Ansir. vii. 815. Stems 1 to l^ft. high. Leaves numerous and short. 

 Involucral bracts very short, the longest 3 to 5 lines long, rigid and almost 

 pungent. Umbels slightly compound of few rays. Ivolucral bracts shorter 

 than the rays. Spikelets 1 to 3 on each ray, pale brown, broadly ovate and 

 about 8 lines long. Glumes numerous, imbricate all round, obtuse, with 

 usually a nerve on each side of the keel. Stamens 3. Style flattened and 

 ciliate. Nut broadly obovcid-clavate. ' ''7' 



Hab.: BoyrenVp^na, Birch. 



26. P. miliacea (Millet-like), VaJd ; Kunth, Enum, ii. 230 ; Benth. Fl.Austr. 

 vii. 316. Apparently annual. Stems tufted, slightly or very prominently 

 4-angled,,6in. to about 2ft. high. Leaves from much shorter to nearly as long, 

 linear, tapering to a fine point; the sheathing base broad and open. Umbel 

 compound, sometimes small with the longest ray about lin., sometimes above 

 Gin. long and very compound, the ultimate rays or pedicelg usually horizontally 

 spreading: Involucral bracts small an,d linear or rarely 1 nearly as long as the 

 ray. Spikelets globular or nearly so, from f to nearly i J line diameter. Glumes 

 numerous, closely imbricate all round, broadly ovate, membranous, obtuse or 

 scarcely mucronate, the keel fine but prominent, and frequently a broad brown 

 streak on each side, the margins pale, sometimes hyaline. 'Stamen 1.' Style 

 glabrous ; branches 8. Nut small, obovoid, whitish, 8-ribbed, granular 

 tuberculate or almost muricate.— Boeckel. in Linnsea, xxxvii. 43 ; F. v. M. 

 Fragni. ix. 12; Trichelostyles miliacea, Nees ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. Prsef. 48. 



Hab.: Between Norman and Gilbert Bivers, Gulliver; Boeihampton, O'Shanesy. 

 Hab.: Common in tropical Asia, the Mascarene Islands, and in tropical America. 



27. p. microcarya (nut small), t. v. M. Fragm. i. 200; Benth. Fl. Austin 

 vii. 316. Apparently annual. Stems tufted, slender, angular, from 3 to 4in. to 

 above 1ft. high. Leaves much shorter, rather numerous, flat and rather flaccid, 

 from J line to nearly 1^ line broad, with short open sheathing bases. Umbel 

 slender, irregular, but very compound, the rays and pedicels filiform, the longest 

 rays 1 to 2 or rarely Sin. long. Involucral bracts narrow and leafy but shorter 

 than the rays. Spikelets not clustered but numerous, the smallest in the genus, 

 brown, narrow-lanceolate, about i line long when first out, lengthening to 1 or 

 1\ line or very rarely rather longer when old, not f line broad, with 6 to 12 or 

 rarely more flowers. Glumes loosely imbricate all round, acuminate, the point 

 sometini.es slightly spreading, the keel very prominent and sometimes slightly 

 ciliate, especially in the outer ones, 1 only empty. Stamen 1. Style nearly 

 glabrous, branches 8. Nut obovoid, whitish, with 3 prominent ribs, usually 

 tuberculate. — F. cyperoides, F. v. M. Fragm. ix. 11, not of E. Br. 



Hab.: Between Norman and Gilbert Eiveri, Gulliver ; Port Denison, Fitzalan ; Boyd Eiver 

 and Dry-beef Creek, Leichhardt ; Herbert's Creek, Bowman ; Eockhampton and neighbourhood, 

 Thozet, O'Shanesy; Sftingixxve, Wuth. 



28. P. cyperoides (Cyperus-like), if. Br. Prod. 228; Benth. fl.Amtr.m. 

 317. Stems from a creeping rhizome, slender but rigid, 6iil. to above 1ft. high. 

 Leaves not numerous, very narrow or subulate, erect, with long open sheaths. 

 Umbel compound, with filiform rays, the longest about lin. long. Involucral 

 bracts few, subulate, the longest much shorter than the inflorescence. Spikelets 

 not clustered, narrow, acute, brown, 2 to 3 lines long, ^ to f line broad, with 2 



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