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rather longer than the oblong-linear anthers, which open in terminal 
pores, rarely splitting down the sides of the cells. Ovary and capsule 
glabrous.— Benth., l.c. 
Hab.: Thursday Island, EZ. Cowley. Not previously met with in Queensland, 
but has been found in several localities of North Australia. 
Order CENTROLEPIDEZ. 
CENTROLEPIS, Labill. 
C. aristata, Rem. et Schult., Fl. Austr. vii, 206. (Desvauxia 
often a few of them nearly 4 line broad and above 1 in. long. Scapes 
1 to 2 in. high, or in luxuriant specimens twice that height, flattened 
in each bract from 6 to about 20, intermixed with hyaline scales, some 
Yary narrow and entire, others broader and jagged at the end, always 1 
under each stamen, and 1 under or by the side of each ovary, with a 
few apparently additional ones. Carpels of the ovary few, varying 
from 8 or 4 to 6 or 7.—Fl. Austr. Le. 
ab.: Queensland, F. v. M. 
Order CYPERACEZ. 
CYPERUS, Linn. 
C. platystylis, 2. Br., Fl. Austr. vii..264. Stems tufted, rather 
igh 
the nen ciliate. Nut oblong or oval-oblong, as long as the glume, 
that at face next the rhachis, the back convex. The style is quite 
veal Fimbristylis, all the other characters those of Cyperus.—F. 
Hab, : Queensland, P. ®. M. 
CAREX, Linn. 
