*£$] The \\ctomn Natuhilnt ill 



FLORA OF VICTORIA; NEW S«OM AND OTHtR ADDITIONS— U 



TV N. A. WakUjejo, Noble Park 



Genut JUNCOS: A Giont Sp-ecies of (he JUNCI GENUINE 



Hitherto Undescribed, trad Comments on Others or* the Subgenus 



Il'KCirS IMGHNS spi nory. disTinefivdiua Subgenus t~*cuui>;i insejooila oh 



eturarreres w*fttMU-*S jini di.iciiminatida; rulnns altmimis (160-175 cm. 



in typo) percrassis (ad basis ± 10 mm d mHorcseeutwm versus u 5 nrtii. 



in diamet.)i medulla interrupt* j inflore&eentia nujnu \ 12-20 nn. !onj»a|, 



perlava, diffusa. unisexual i ; Honbus sal par vis i}etidnihu segments. 



circa 1.3 mm. longis (3 iuterionhus perlate alatis), nnsi.ulmi* stamina 



6 wd ovarium nullum geremibus. ftmineis starnmodiis 6, capsula ovonlea 



ciica 1.5 nim. longa. 

 HOLOTVPR: Swamp between Princes Hmhwav and JLatrobe Kiver, 

 1 mile west of Rosedale, Victoria; N. A WaVcfield Vo- *H5 ; 22/1/1957; 

 kindle specimen; (MEL: duplicate; to be still lo K and NSW*). 



Plants- unisexual, forming extensive thicket > In tfertfouCiW callow vvaWrj 

 rtifconies stout, much branched; culms about 2 metres or more high, cylin- 

 drical, about 1 cm. or more in diameter at base and 5 mm, towards the 

 in|1or<-*.~cuce, smooth, pale the siith almost cork-like and vzrv much inter- 

 rupted, leafless; ba^al sheaths up to 36 cm. long tyro 15 mm wide, rulr 

 brown to srraw-rohiural. widely dilated j inHorescence up to -0 cm. long, 

 dirfuse, much branched, the longest branches l>are fur up to $ cm., the fcflw 

 dtviMOUd hair-like, bearing up to 3,000 oi' more mm.nV flower*, the ertet 

 flora] bract 15-95 cm. long ; outer perianth segments 1 .5 -J imrl. long', acute ; 

 lOnei segments about 1-1,5 mm. long y obio.se, broadly winged; stamens 6, 

 reduced to flat staminode^ in female flower* , ovary lacking in rustic flowers 

 sTijnna? wholly free; capsule 1-1.5 mm, long, broadly obovatc, the apex 

 tr.me^te; seeds few. 



JtMCHS nt<ynj fti'OW5 abondaniy iu lagoons ai;d waterways of the uppet 

 Murray Kiver district, in which area J. W. Willis reports plants up ir» 

 M tepT {iS metres) in bright. It < aippslainl, ihe species" covers some arrr : . 

 ot swamp in the type locality (near Rosedale), it fill-, the extensive MeLeod> 

 Moras* on the western fringe of Bain;*dale 7 and there is a minor occurrence 

 in a tiny lagoon near the 1'rince.s Highway at Brodribb Kiver. Besides the. 

 type niaietlaf, there arc In (h? Melbourne National Herbarium qwcimcns as 

 follows: 



Waugaratta, 3881, collector unknown, (female) ; Goulhurn Kiver, \V l ; . 

 Gates, !89t, fmalc) ; fiftucfcflk. banks oi Kiewa River, R-alc-igk; A Black. 

 11/9/1940. ( female > ; McLeod* Monu>, Baim.yJale, Tv A. Wakefield 

 No. 4891, 31/1/1957, (male) ; flrodribb Kiver, K. A. WakeJield No. 4>*I P 

 JJ/1/1*J57. ffemale) , Column, per Australian Taper Manufacturers Ltd,, 

 U/ll/1940, (male). 



/ tnycvr is evidently (he larger! Jvutm> m tlrc world, and it appears ^40 

 to be ibe only dioecious 5f>ecirs oi the prims. 



JUXCUS SURSKCUKDHS sp nov. aflfims J. ra/iuln Rnrh. (-:ptonim rdim 



cttiTusa). sf»d recedit: culnus Iraud i;cabridis. medulla iulenuipta, inrlorcs- 



ccnttae axibus UcviIjus, floribus apiiroximatla 



1IQLOTYP1C : rriuce-S Highway, west of Providence Poutls, eastern Vic- 



lona. H. Am W.ikendd Kb, '1o7i; ^/l/]Qj7, under P.ut-sttyptvs r&h&q 4 



with J\ pofynnttH'titos Buch,, J oushodi Hk f.i /, ftitUn'o Buch- and /. fiili- 



sttulis Buch. 



.Rhizomes tittle-hranched; culms few, up to 60 ein. hi^b, normallv about 

 I mm. diam. slroAgly striated; longest Ira.sal sheath slrOiuily stfialod, dull 



* MEL — iCutiunal Hcibutium uf Vmiuriu, .Mdltuurtit: K — Ryvj! Bytantc Gulden?* 

 Ktw : "KiiftUnd; NSW — National Htrbariurtt of New South W»li'5. Sydnc, 



