Lyginia.] CXLII. RESTIACEX. 211 
ovary, rather shorter than the glumes. Style short and thick, with 
long plumose stigmatic branches. Capsule depressed, thick and hard, 
the angles very prominent.—Nees in Pl. Preiss. ii. 61 ; L. symphyonema, 
uell. Fragm. viii. 79; Sehanodum tenax, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. 
80, t. 229 as to the male plant. 
W. Australia. King George's Sound, R. Brown and others and thence to Swan 
River, Drummond 1st. coll. and n. 953 (d) 952 (9), Preiss, n. 1699, 1700, 1701 ; 
urchison Oldfield. 
L. imberbis, R. Br. Prod, 248, Nees. in Pl. Preiss, ii. 61, also from King George's 
F 
Perianth-segments 6, glume-lik t exceeding the 
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dorsally attached in the centre only. Female flowers: Staminodia 3. 
Ovary 2-celled , styles 2, free and stigmatic almost from the base. 
Capsule unknown.—Stems simple, with a single sheathing scale besides 
the imbricate ones at the base. Spikelets solitary. 
The genus is limited to the single species, endemic in West Australia. 
but stri tly terminal. Glumes ovate, obtuse, very numerous, rigid 
and closely imbrieate, about 2 lines long, 2 or 3 of the outer ones 
shorter and empty, but no sheathing bract immediately under the spike. 
erianth in both sexes very flat, about as loug as the glumes, glabrous 
or slightly hairy at the tips, 2 outer segments concave-complicate, the 
an very flat and rather broad, 3 inner ones narrow and concave. 
laments rather short. Styles long. 
ah Australia. Drummond, 4th coll. n. 342; Murchison River, Oldfield. 
e flowers rding to F. Mueller are diœcious, the only. female flower however 
Which I have been able to fermy was taken from a spike in which there were 
is habit ees! males. The specimens are too few to determine whether the plant 
bitually dicecious or androgynous. 
3. ANARTHRIA, R. Br. 
Flowers dieeious or rarely monecious, in narrow or spike-like 
Panicles, the glumes not Fine imbrieate and shorter than the 
