i802 CLII. CYPEEAOE^ [Cared. 



Spikeleti usually few, androgynous, Jn a Bhott terminal spike. Style- .'^ 



branckes 2. , ■ 

 Spikelets 3 to <5, ovate, gceen or pale-eoloured, male at the base or 

 sometimes wliolly female. 



Outer bract much longer than theJnfloreacence 1. C. invtrsa. 



Spikelets 6 to 12, male at the top, the spike sometimes compound at 



the base 2. C. chloraiitha. 



Spikelets numerous, androgynous, in a long narrow panicle. 

 Panicle very narrow and spikelike, the partial spikelike branches short 

 and erect. Style-branehes 2. 

 Stem 3-angled. Utricle ciliate on the angles, with a very short beak 3. 'C.paniculata. 

 Stem 3-angled. Urtiele not ciliate, with a long beak . ■ ..... i- C. declinala. .. r 

 Panicle narrow but loose, the short branches spreading. Style- 

 branches 3 . . . 5. C. fissilis. 



Panicle loo?e. Spikelets not so numerous as in the preceding species > 



and J to Jin. long. Style-branches-2 . . . . .... . . . . 6. C. gracilis. 



Spikelets 3 to 6 or rarely more, the terminal one male, the lower ones 

 female or shortly male at the top and distant. Style-branches 2. 

 Spikeless all sessile or the lowest scarcely pedunculate. 

 Glumes mostly obtuse. Spikelets under 2in. / <|^ 



Spikelets pale-coloured. Utricle abruptly contracted into a short 



truncate beak 7. C, conlracta. 



Spikelets dark-coloured. Utricle not beaked or tapering into a 



short beak : . . . 8. C vulgaris. 



Glume acute. Spikelets mostly above 2in 0. C acuta. 



Spikelets all pedunculate, narrow, dark-brown 10. €. labolepil. 



Spikelets 3 to C or rarely more, the terminal one male or female at the 

 top, the lower ones chiefly female and sessile or the lowest shortly 

 pedunculate. Style-branches 3. . 



Terminal spikelet male, cylindrical. Female ones oblong or cylindrical, 

 distant. . : 



Stems 3 to Sin. Leaves usually longer, tufted. Female spikelets 

 mostly with a few males at the base. 

 Utricles Corky, ovoid, with short beaks, 3 lines long ...-.'.. 11. G. pumila. 

 Utricles not corky, pvoid, with short beaks, 1^ line long . . . . li. C.breviculmis. 

 Spikelets several, cylindrical, the terminal male, the lower ones females 

 or ehiefly so and mostly pedunculate. Style-branches 3. Stems tall. 

 Utricle ovdid, usually dark-coloured, scarcely beaked, very prominently 

 many-nerved. 



Glumes ovate or oblong, obtuse IB. C, maaulata. 



Glumes narrow, acute or with long points 14. C. Brownii. 



Utricle tapering into a distinct beaJk. ^ Peduncles usually :long. 

 Spikelets erect or scarcely spreading, usually 2 or mors from the same 

 sheatli. ■ Glumes rather broad, acuminate or aristate . . . . . 15. C.longifoUa. 



Spikeleti Reading or pendulous. Glumes and utrioles4apering into 

 long points '. . .■■ V .„ . , . ._ . . ^ , . . * . i . ; 16. Cpseudocyperui. 



1. C> inversa (inversed), H, £n l^rod. 242; Benth. hi, Austr. vii. 4S8. 

 Stems in the: typical form from a few in. to above 1ft. high. Leaves shorter, 

 narrow. Spikelets 3 to 5, all sessile in a terminal cluster or short spike, rarely 

 reduced to a 'single one, or with an additional axil^ry one rather lower down, all 

 usua% aud)fOgynous, ovate, 3 to. 6 lines long. Outer leaflike bracts 1 to S, 

 longer than'jthe inflorescence. Glumes very thin and almost hjalijc^e, with a 

 green 1 or 3'nerved keel. Male flowers at the base of the spikelet sometimes 

 numerous occupying half the spikelets, more frequently fe\r only and sometimes 

 quite deficieiat, rarely 1 or 2 males at .the end of the spikelet. Female flowers 

 usually rather numerous. Utricle much flattened, 1| to 2 lines long including 

 the^beak, ovate or obovate, several-u^rved, with green ciliate edges, tapering iiito 

 a bifid beak short in the typical form, nearly as long as the utricle in the larger 

 variety. Stgrle-branches 2. _ Nut much flattened, nearly ^es^ile. — Boott, 111. Car. 

 iv.-isi, t. 486 to 488 ; "Hook. f. Fl. Taam. ii. 99 ; Bceckel. in Linnsea, xxxix.-69» 

 F. V. M. Fragm. viii. 252. . 



, Hab.: Brisbane, and Dawson Si vers, i\ v. Mueller ,, hoGkhaivaptoni O'Shaneay; Boakingbam 

 Bay, Dallachy. 



