108 NEW SPECIES OF WEST AUSTRALIAN PLANTS, 



Differs from C. arisfata, Room, et 8chult., principall}'^ in tin- 

 leaves and fewer parts to the flower. In foliage and habit it 

 approximates to C. huminima, F.v.M. 



RESTIACE^. 

 Restio stenostachyus, sp.nov. 



Rhizome rather stout, creeping, enveloped in reddish wool. 

 Stems slender, erect or flexuose, simple or with few branches, 

 terete, sulcate, glabrous, 1-2 feet high. Sheathing scales closely 

 appressed, pale brown, mucronate, with tufts of reddish wool in 

 the axis. Floral bract similar, closely embracing the base of the 

 spikelet. Spikelets in both sexes of a reddish colour, solitary and 

 terminating the branches, or with 1-2 axillary lower down, from 

 narro\v-ovate and 2 lines to cylindrical and J inch or more in 

 length. Flowers numerous within each spikelet. Male spikelet 

 with 2 empty glumes, lanceolate-ovate, tapering into acute rigid 

 points, ciliate on the bracts and margins with woolly hairs; flower- 

 ing glumes similar. Perianth very flat, segments G, 2 outer ones 

 lanceolar, complicate, ciliate on the back with reddish wool, 4 

 inner ones flat and almost hyaline. Anthers red, much exserted. 

 Rudimentary ovary minute. 



Female spikelets with glumes rather broader than in the males, 

 with white, scarious, ciliate margins, a little reddish wool on the 

 back, 3 outer empty ones. Perianth similar to the male. 

 Staminodia minute or none. Ovary flat, 2-celled; styles sliglitly 

 connate at the base, nearly as long as the ovar}' and much exserted, 

 stigmatic in the upper half. Ripe capsule not seen. 



Log. — Burswood; in wet spots (9; in March, 1900); near 

 Causeway, Perth (^; April, 11)01; W. Y. Fitzgerald). 



In habit and inflorescence approximates to E. de/ormis, R.Br., 

 but differs materialh^ in the vestiture and the structure of the 

 spikelet. 



HvpoL.ENA fasciculata, sp.nov. 



Rhizome tufted, slightly woolly. Stems pubescent with wliite 

 spreading hairs, rarely glabrous, under 18 inches high; branches 



