Lepyrodia.] CXLIL RESTIACEJ. 215 
Eastern species, Outer perianth-segments at least in 
the males venis r than the inner. Sheathing scales 
closely appre: 
Stems slender, died comite d MN with a single 
anicle 
spike-like "pani 4. L. gracilis. 
t"! pa bra e gand Joose. Spikes 
nly numerous nas i paniculate 5. L. tasmanica 
tems Toa oos branched. Flowers re almost sessile 
katé ea the bran: 
e 
L. interrupta, 
cach flower wi thin the glume. 
Stems branched at the base, about 4 in. hi igh. 
ma iis scales Yer deciduous. Flowers 
hermaphrodite 
Stems vino jar branched, near 1 d „Sheathing scales 
persistent. rs mono . . L. monoica. 
Stems paniy snp ie She g scales per- 
athin 
nk nt. Outer perianth-segments shorter than 
7. L hermaphrodita. 
inner. 
Glumes and bracteoles = : aristate . . 9. L. Muirii. 
Dione - bracteoles with fine points . 10. L. stricta. 
Stems nearly simple. rue shite scales very 
deciduous ae annular s 
tems densely tufted. Male perianths a little 
above llinelong . - > ll. L. maera. 
Stems from a thick reeping rhizome, "Male 
Ww ose pics 21 ome long 12. L. Drummondiana. 
estern specie wers clustered in the panicles 
without bracteoles, Sheathing scales loose. 
Shea eon erect, Perianth. -segments acute or 
13. L. glauca. 
Shething ° scales spreading, Porianth-segments 
- 14. L. aneetocolea. 
l. L. scari E. Br. Prod. 248.—Rhizome creeping. Ste 
ofer terete, glabrous, 1 to 2 ft. high. Sheeting scales brown, jeneg 
^ i t specime 
$206 with short points. Inflorescence à narro w pale brown thyrsoid 
i ort unequal erect branches, the lower ones jaaa distant, 
the others more crowded. racts under the lower branches rigid with 
long points, under the upper branches smaller, broader and more 
"gs Owers sessile or shortly pedicellate within searious glumes 
at base of the 
owers with a small rudiment of the ovary, females 
with slender iitainndis. —-F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 72; L. hermaphrodita, 
ees in Sieb. Pl. Exs. n. 51, not of R. Br. 
amm. S Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Woolls, and 
New England, C. Stuart. 
2. L. Muelleri Benth. aione creeping. Stems erect, often 
vit high or more. ane scales pec to 4 in. ence some 
