Schienus.] CLII. CYPERACE^E. 178T 



or the lower ones aristate, 2 or nively 3 outer empty ones shorter. Hypogynoua 

 bristles none or very small, 1 rarely as long as the nut. Stamens 3. Nut 

 obovoid, very obtuse, 8-ribbed, minutely striate or cancellate. — F. v. M. Fragm. 

 ix. 29 ; S. elatus, Boeokel. in Flora, 1875, 117 (from the char, given). 



Hab.: Islands ot the Gulf ot Carpentaria, /,'. lirown; Burdekin River, Armitage; Bowen 

 Downs, Birch (with remarkably large spikes) ; Mount Wheeler, Thozet. 



10. S. punctatus (dotted), /,'. Br. Prod. 232; Bentli. Fl.Amtr. vii. 372. 

 Stems 2ft. high or more, leafy. Lower leaves very long, .floral bracts gradually 

 shorter, all subulate-filiform almost from the sheath. Panicle 6in. to lft< long, 

 leafy, slender and loose. Spikelets very numerous, all pedicellate, lanceolate, 

 slightly falcate, more or less flattened, scarcely 2 lines long, rather pale brown, 

 with 2 flowers. Glumes thinly membranous, rather obtuse, 2 outer empty ones 

 shorter. No hypogynous bristles. Stamens 3. Nut ovoid-oblong, obtusely 

 8-angled, marked witti iuipressed dots. 



Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, It. Brown. ' 



11. Ssindatus (covered), F. v. M. llerh. ; Benth. FL Austr. vii; 372. Stems 

 slender, attaining about 1ft., at first clothed with long spreading hairs but tM 

 older ones often glabrous. Leaves few at the base of the stem, almost subulate, 

 1 to Sin. long, the outer one with a short open sheath, the inner sheath close and 

 slightly membranous at the orifice. Panicle very loose, with few spikelets, all on 

 long pedicels, solitary or clustered in the axils of short slender dark brown 

 sheathing bracts. Spikelets dark brown, lanceol§,te, flattened, about 3 lines long 

 with 2 or 3 flowers. Glumes very acute or the inner ones obtuse, 4 to 6 outer 

 empty ones giradually shorter with the points sometimes slightly spreading. 

 Hypogynoua bristles 6 or fewer, very irregular, 1 or 2 longer than the young nut, 

 the others often very small. Stamens 3. 



Hab.: Queensland, F. v. M. 



12. S. Brownii (after Dr. E. Brown), Hook. /. Hamlb. X. Zeal. FL 298 ; 

 Benth. Fl. Aiistr. yii. 378. Stems tufted, slender, often filiform, from 2 or Sin, 

 to near^lft. high. Leaves narrow-linear or filiform, a few at the base of the 

 stem with short points or laminae, 1 to 3 higher up with closed sheaths and 

 longer laminae. Spikelets few together in clusters or little umbels, the clusters 

 sessile or pedunculate, several from each sheath, the lower ones' distant, the 

 whole forming a narrow panicle or small irregular umbel, or reduced to 2 or 5 

 rather dense clusters. Bracts with brown sheaths and leafy points, Spikele(i? 

 linear or linear-lanceolate, brown or black, 2 to near 3 lines long, usually with 2 

 flowers. Glumes acute or the inner ones obtuse, 3 or 4 outer ones empty of 

 which the 2 outermost very much shorter, the keel often minutely ciliate; 

 Hypogynous bristles 6, very slender, from a little to very much longer than the 

 nut. "Stamens 3. Nut small, white, S-ribbed, minutely reticulate under a lens. 

 Chcetospora imberhiK, R. Br. Prod. 233 ; Bceckel. in Linnaja, xxsviii. 299 ; Sieb. 

 Agr0stDth..Ji. 27, Hook, f, Fl. Tasm. ii. 82, F. v. M. Fragm, ix. 35 ; Isolepis 

 margaritiferatMees in Herb. Berol. ; ~$drpns mnrgariiifertos, Bceckel. in Linnaaa, 

 xxxvi. 697 ; Cliatnspora tenuixaima, Steud. Syn. Glum. ii. 162, from the 

 char, given, not of Hook, f . 



Hab.: East coast, U. Broion ; Brisbane Biver, F. v. Mueller, Bailey. 



19. ELYNANTHUS, Nees. 



Spikelets clustered in a narrow panicle, with u'sually 2 hermaphrodite flowerg 

 close together on a short not flexuose rhachis, both fertile or one sterile. Glupoes 

 distichous, 2 to 4 outer ones empty and a small empty one close above the 

 flowers. No hypogynous bristles. Stamens 3; to 8. Style slender with a 



