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erecti, simplices juncei v. virgat i aphylli. Vagin: secus caulem plures, 
persistentes v. (in L. macra et L. Pagus decidus. Inflorescentia utriusque sexus 
subconformis. Panicula nune dense polystachya, sepius tamen. angusta s ad spicum 
interruptam reducta.  Bractew sub panieul:e ramis v. sp late v. 
anguste, nec magn:e spathacec ut in Dovea. Spicule laxe, glumis angustis v. parvis 
dissitis ut in Anarthria ; bracteolz sub floribus szepius 2, in speciebus paucis desunt. 
Species 15, quarum una Novo-Zelandica, ezterz omnes Australie extratropiee incole. Benth. FT. 
Austral. vii. 214. — Mast. in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. i. 224, t. 1. — Beauv. ex Desv. in. Ann. Sc, Nat. 
ser. 1, xiii. £. 8, . 3. — Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. t. 135. 
SronapAxTRUs, F. Muell. in. Trans. N. Zeal. Inst. vi. 889; Kirk, ibid, x. App. 41, est Lepyrodia 
Traversi, F. Muell, Fragm. Phytogr. Austral. viii. 79, species Novo-Zelandica, serius ab auctore 
generice distincta ob fructum nuceum l-spermum. Nobis videtur, tanquam adhue nota, Lepyrodie 
species vera, L. scariose, Br. proxime affinis, sed elatior, panieula majore floribunda. Specimina 
mascula non vidimus, feminea quee a Cheesmannio e Nova Zelandia accepimus omnia fructifera sunt, 
stylis jam delapsis. Fructus obliquus, inzqualiter 3-queter (abortu?) l-loeularis l-spermus, peri- 
carpio tenui prominenter 3-costato, demum hine in longitudinem dehiscens. 
5. Restio, Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. 13, ii. 735. (Rhodocoma, ANees in. Lindl. Introd. Nat. 
Syst. ed. 2, 450. Megalotheca, F. Muell. Fragm. Phytogr. Austral. viii. 98.  Ischyrolepis, 
Steud. Syn. Pl. Glwm. ii. 249. Craspedolepis, Steud. l.c. 264.)— Flores dioici, spiculis 
utriusque sexus oo-floris v. foemineis rarissime masculis l-floris, glumis imbricatis, 
bracteolis 0. Perianthii segmenta 6 v. interdum 5 v. 4, rarissime in fl. 9 deficientia, 
2 exteriora swpius carinata. Fl. d: Stamina 3, filamentis Phe E anthere oblongie, 
dorsifixze, 1-loculares, rima unica dehiscent Pistilli rudi i v. Szepius 0. 
Fl. 9: Staminodia 3 v. 0. Ovarium 2- v. 3-loculare; styli 2 v. 3, distincti v. basi 
breviter connati, fere a basi introrsum stigmatosi, sspe plumosi. Capsula compressa v. 
3-quetra, ad angulos dehiscens.— Caules e rhizomate squamoso erecti, simplices v. ramosi, 
virgati v. flexuoso-ramosissimi, aphylli. Vagins sepius plures dissitze persistentesque. 
Inflorescentiz d' et 9 nune subconformes, nunc valde diverse ; spieulwe d sepius pani- 
culatze, secus ramos pedicellatz v. sessiles ; 9 ssepe sessiles v. subsessiles, solitarice fasci- 
culatze v. spicatze, interdum tamen uti d paniculatze. In planta juniore vagin:e inferiores 
interdum lamina brevi instructze, planta adulta semper aphylla videtur. 
Species deseripts& ad 100, plures tamen adhue imperfecte note, Afriee australis et Australie 
ineole. Kunth, Enum. PI. iii. 382. Mast. in. DC. Monogr. Phanerog. i. 232, t, 1 (excl. R. loxocaryo), 
et. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 4. 15. — Benth. Fl. Austral. vii, 220. — Rottb. Descr. et Ic. Pl. t. 2, f. 2,4, 
4.8, f. 1. Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. t. 226, 227. — Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. t. 135. 
Genus a Mastersio post Kunthium in sectiones 2 ad pistillum 2- v. 3-merum divisum, a Benthamio 
ad spieulas 9 1- v. oo-floras, charactere utroque nee semper constante nee habitu diverso comitato. 
Inflorescentia d quam maxime polymorpha, sed vix sectiones distinetas praebet. 
6. Dovea, Kunth, Ewwm. Pl. ii. 497.— Flores dioici, spiculis utriusque sexus pauci- 
floris v. presertim 9 l-floris, glumis imbricatis, bracteolis 0. Perianthii segmenta 6, 
glumacea, 2 extima paullo breviora acute carinata, csetera subplana. Fl. d: Stamina 3, 
filamentis distinctis ; antherw oblongse, dorsifix:e, 1l-loculares, rima unica dehiscentes. 
Pistilli rudimentum minimum, 3-fidum. Fl. 9 : Staminodia minima v. 0. Ovarium 3-locu- 
lare ; styli 3, distincti, crassiusculi, TOGUTVI Breroreum  DiloBo- stigmatosi. Capsula dura, 
subgloboso-3-dyma, loculis 3 in longit ibus.—Caules in rhizomate brevi 
conferti, erecti, rigidi, simplices, robusti v. tenues, ima basi SIUE, Vaginsz secus 
caulem dissitz, laxo, deciduz, ad nodos annulum fuscum reli Infi ti 
terminalis, spiculis spicatis, spicis brevibus sul ilibus densis simplicib isve, in 
panieulam nune angustam densam hinc inde interruptam nune breviorem laxiuseule jn: 
SP RAMS dispositis; inflorescentia 9 masculo simplieior, esterum similis. — Bracte:e 
spathacec magn:e, coriacez, coloratz, sub spicis ramisve inflorescentize, sed cito decidu:e. 
Species 6, Africe australis ineolee. Mast. in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. i. 306, t. 2, et in Journ. Linn, 
Soc. x. t. 1 B. 
