iSde CLIl. CYPERAOEyE. [Cdrex. 



cylindrical, mostly about ^in. long and rather loose, the terminal one male, thfe 

 lower ones female or 1 or more of them with male flowers in the upper half, 

 all erect and sessile or the lowest shortly pedunculate, distant or the upper 

 ones crowded together. Glumes loosely imbricate, thinly membranous, the 

 females with a prominent keel produced into a fine point, the males obtuse or 

 shortly muconate. Utricle shortly stipitate, ovoid, usually longer than the 

 glume but shorter than its point, very faifltly or more distinctly many-nerved, 

 glabrous or minutely pubescent, with & . rather long conical beak. Style- 

 branches 3.— Boott, 111, Car. iv. 181 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 101, Fl. Nov. 

 Zf)l. t. 63; F. V. M. Fragm. viii. 255; C. lioyleam, Boott, 111. Car. i. 6, t. 19. 



Hab.: Brisbane River, JDc. Cluis. Prentice. 



Also ia New Zealand, the Himalaya and Japan. 



13. C. maculata (spotted), Buvtt in Trans. Lhm. Soc. xx. 128 ; III. Car. i. 

 9, f. 26 ; Benth. Fl. Aiistr. \u. 447. Stems long and weak. Leaves long, the 

 floral ones or outer bracts exceeding the inflorescence, the sheaths bordered by a 

 broad thinly scarious brown membrane. Spikelets several, 3 or 4 usually sessile 

 in a terminal cluster, of which 1 wholly male and 1 to 3 androgynous the male 

 flowers at the top, and 2 to 4 females more or less distant and pedunculate, the 

 lowest often far down on a long slender peduncle, but all erect, cylindrical, 

 mostly about lin. long. Glumes ovate or oblong, obtuse or scarcely mucronate, 

 thinly scarious, pale brown or hyaline. Utricles sessile, ovoid,' often compressed, 

 rather aeate or very shortly beaked, longer than the glume, very prominently 

 several-nerved. Style-branches 3. Nut 3-angM. — C. neurochlamys, F. v. M. 

 Fragm. viii. 258. 



Hab. : Brisbane Biver, Moreton Bay, P. v. Mueller, C. Stuart, Bailey ; Bockingbam Bay, 

 Dallachy. 

 Also in East India, as identified by Boott. 



14. C. Brownii (after Dr. R. Brown), Tuckerm. Enum. Gar, 21; Benth, Fl. 

 Austr, vii. 447. Stems 1 to 2ft. long, rather weak. Leaves long, the lowest 

 floral ones or outer bracts often exceeding the inflorescence, the upper ones short 

 and subulate. Spikelets usually 3 or 4, very near together at the end of the 

 stem, erect and sessile or nearly so, but sometimes the lowest more distant and 

 more or less pedunculate, the terminal one male, the others ferhale all -^rto fin. 

 long. Glumes more or less scarious, narrow or short and acuminate, the midrib 

 produced into a rather long point. Utricle ovoid, turgid or nearly globular, 

 usually dark-coloured in fruit, rather more than 1 line long, prominently many- 

 nerVed, abruptly contracted into a very short 2-toothed beak. Style-branches 3. 

 —Boott, 111. Car. iv. 161, t. 632, F. v. M. Fragm. viii. 250; C. striata, R. Br. 

 Prod. 243, Kunth, Enum. ii. 458, Sieb. Agrostoth. n. 16, not of Michaux. 



Hab.: Southern localities. 



G. lacisloma, 11. Br. Prod. 243; Boott, 111. Car. t. 532, appears to have been correctly 

 referred by F. v. Mueller, to C. Brownii, Benth. 



15. C. longifolia (leaves long), U. Br. Prod. 242 ; Benth. FL Aiistr. vii. 448. 

 Stems 2 to 3ft. high, with long rather broad leaves, the lower floral ones or outer 

 bracts long and leaflike, with long sheaths, Spikelets 6 to 20, the terminal one 

 male, 1 to l^^in. long, often tecbmpanied'by a cluster of shorter ones all male or 

 partially female, the others all pedunculate and female or with a few male flowers 

 at the base or at the top, 1 to 2in. long, the peduncles slender and usually 

 clustered 2 to 4 together in the axils of the long leaflike outer bracts or floral 

 leaves, the sheaths of the lower ones long. Glumes scarious, rather broad, 

 acuminate or obtuse and aristate, the keel usually prominent. Utricles obloilg- 

 elliptical, stipitate, prominently 3-angled, tapering into an entire or 2-toothed 

 beak] nearly 8 lines long including the beak. Style-branches 8. Nut short, 



