210 CXLII. RESTIACEA, 
Ovary 1-celled with a single ovule, Styles or style 
branches 3 
Female spikelets several-flowered as well as the 
males. Pericarp usually Td atorally o 6. LEPTOCARPUS. 
Foihale spikelets Song Mee Nut Spare : 7. HYPOLÆNA 
Ovary 1-celled with a single ovule. ragas vided. 
Female spikelets rek Stems much-branched. 
eathing scales persistent : 8, LoxocARYA. 
Female quo several-flowered as well the 
males mostly simple. Sheathing Faille 
9. LrPIDOBOLUS. 
ry dec 
Siga ipikelete - deir clustered, Perianth of 3 
and cilia, Males 
0. CHÆTANTHUS. 
Spikelets P" n both ‘sexes ` solitary, terminal, s veral- 
flowered. Perianth of 3 narrow-clawed hyaline 
segments 1. ONYCHOSEPALUM. 
Chetodiscus Gilberti, Steud. PL dimi: ii. 261, is too imperfectly | described 
for identification but is qoe o ea irn 
T 
1. LYGINIA, R. Br. 
Flowers diceious, the males a: together, the females solitary, 
in spikelets with jinBrieate glumes. Perianth-segments 6, glume e-like, 
not exceeding the glumes. Male flower: Stamens 3, the filaments 
united almost to the top ; anthers of 2 distinct cells dorsally attached 
in the centre only. Yemale flower: No staminodia. Ovary 3 3-celled ; 
iter and terminal. 
The genus is limited to the single species, endemic in West Australia. 
. L. barbata, R. Br. Prod. 248.—Rhizome creeping, cove ered as 
sell as the base of the stems with closely imbricate shining brown 
scales. Stems simple, erect or flexuose, rather slender, 1 to 2 Tt. high. 
Sheathing scales appressed, ciliate at the top with long hairs a7 
ac s 
or quite glabrous. Spikelets closely sessile within the bract ee" 
scarcely protruding from it, solitary within each bract or rarely 1 °F 
additional imperfect spikelets i in the lowest bract. Glumes dark brow” 
acuminate, nearly 3 lines long, most of them flowering, with few empty 
t lum ube. 
Spikelets few and often only a single terminal one. Glumes of the 
same length but ales than in the males, acuminate with a fine e 
all mu h but enclosing a single terminal flower. Peria nth-segmer e 
nearly equal, rigid, acute, very much imbricate and pd round 
