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complicato-carinata, interiora tenuiora plana. Stamina 3, filamentis filiformibus ; antherze 
oblong:e, dorsifixze, 1-loculares, rima unica dehiscent Pistilli radimentum 0. Spicul:e 
9 oblongs v. angustze, solitarite v. 2, erecto, sessiles, glumis rigidulis demum apice 
patentibus, inferioribus paucis vacuis. Perianthium valde compressum, segmentis tenuibus 
sepe hyalinis, exterioribus complicatis carinis late alatis. Staminodia 0. Ovarium sessile, 
compressum, 1-loculare, 1-2-ovulatum, ovulo altero tamen mox abortiente ; styli 2, a 
basi distincti, superne v. fere a basi introrsum subplumoso-stigmatosi. Fructus nuceus, 
subteres, leviter compressus, ecostatus, nitidus, pericarpio duro indehiscente.—Caules e 
rhizomate squamoso erecti, juncei, simplices v. in ramos paucos virgatos divisi. Vaginsz 
pauc:, dissitze, persistentes.  Bractesm spatl sub infi tia d et sub spicula 9 
angustz, erect, complicate, persistentes. Spiculwe d' in panicula paues, ad axillam 
spathz pedicellatzs, nutantes; 9 erectz, swpius solitarim terminales, additis rarius 1-2 
inferioribus sessilibus, omnes brunneze nitidul nec scariosce. 
Species 6, Africze australis ineole, Mast. im DC. Monogr. Phanerog. i. 823 (Thanochorti $ 2). 
Riottb. Descr. et Ic. Pl. t. 2, f. 5, t. 8, f. 0 (Restio). 
Masters hoe genus eum Zha;unochorto jungit, cui certe proxime affine, sed character e pistillo 
synearpico nee monocarpieo eonstaus videtur, et quodammodo habitu et charaeteribus nonnullis 
minoribus comitatur. 
10. zypolena, R. Br. Prod. 21. (Calorophus, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. 78, t. 228. 
Calostrophus, P. Muell. Fragm. Phytogr. Austral. viii. 86, 88.)—Flores dioici, spiculis 
d co-Horis rarius 1-floris, 9 1-floris, glumis imbricatis, bracteolis 0. Fl. 4: Perianthii 
segmenta sepius 6, angusta, glumacea v. tenuia. Stamina 3, filamentis filiformibus ; 
anthere oblong:, dorsifixee, 1-loculares, rima unica dehiscentes. Pistilli rudimentum 0. 
Fl. 9: Perianthii segmenta 6, tenuissima, fere hyalina, brevia lataque v. rarius lanceolata. 
Staminodia 3 minima v. 0. Ovarium 1-loculare, l-ovulatum, apice sepius plus minus 
corneo-incrassatum ; styli v. styli rami 2, filif i tigmatosi. Fructus nuceus, 
ovoideus v. obovoideus, teres, tatus, apice i ius v. squalis, pericarpio duro 
indehiscente.— Caules e rhizomate repente tenues, ramosi, interdum ramosissimi, sub- 
flexuosi. Wagin:e persistentes. Spicul:e sepius parvze, d nunc secus ramos solitariz v. 
gemins, sessiles, swpe distantes, nunc ad apices ramorum paniculatte ; 9 ad apices 
ramorum solitariz v. 2-3-nse. 
Species 17, Afrieze australis, Australie extratropiee v. Novze Zelandim incole. Mast. in DC. 
Monogr. Phanerog. i. 364, excl. $ 1; in Journ. Linn. Soc, x. t. 1 A. Benth, Fl. Austral. vii. 237. 
Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. t. 137. 
Genus in series 3 sequentes dividendum :— 
1l. Tenues. .Spicule d secus ramos dissitze sub bractea spathacea solitariz sessilesque v. geminwe 
altera sessili altera breviter pedicellata. Styli v. styli rami 3 v. 2. Species Australiane cum una 
Novo-Zelandieca. Y 
2. Restioidee. Spicule d in panieulam parvulam laxam disposita, omnes pedieellatz, | Styli 
rami 3. Species 2, Australian. Planta d'a speciebus nonnullis Hesíionis v. Leptocarpi wgre 
distinguenda. 
3. Africane. Spieule d subsessiles, paniculatz v. secus ramos dissite, Styli rami 2, Species 
11, austro-Afrieanze. 
17. mypodiscus, Nees in Lindl. Introd. Nat. Syst. ed. 2, 450. — (Leucoploeus, ANees in 
Lindl.l.c. Boeckhia, Kunth, Emwm. Pl. iii. 448.)—Flores dioici, spiculis d multifloris, 
9 1-floris, glumis imbricatis, bracteolis 0. Spicule d globose v. ovoide:, glumis rigidulis 
subulato-acuminatis. Perianthii segmenta 6, rarius D, angusta, 2 exteriora subcarinata. 
Stamina 3, filamentis filiformibus ; antherz oblongw, dorsifixze, 1-loculares, rima unica 
dehiscentes. Pistilli rudimentum 0. Spieule 9 masculis angustiores, glumis oo vacuis 
arcte imbricatis brevius quam in masculis aristatis. Torus intra perianthium nunc brevis- 
simus nunc crassus, papillis carnosis tuberculatus. Perianthii segmenta 3-06, tenuia v. 
fere hyalina, nunc ad basin stipitis brevia, nunc basi stipiti adnata, ovario paullo breviora. 
Ovarium ovoideum, basi v. fere ad apicem papillis carnosis obtectum, junius sepe 2-locu- 
