218 OXLII. RESTIACER. [ Lepyrodia. 
loose and NEA Flowers monceious like those of L. macra, but 
the spikes more slender and interrupted, often irregularly compound 
merous as to form an irregular much-branched panicle. 
neigh acute, a little above 1 line long, the greater er 
ur specimens females with staminodia, but several males mixe 
minat them 
W. Au dod: Drummond, n. 447. 
ar, ? foliosa, F. Muell. Several T the sheathing scales enclosing, besides 1 or 2 
branches, m linear leaves in the s me cluster, each consisting of a short scarious 
sheathi xd e and a linear libb: of $ to 1 in. or even longer.— Perongerup 
F. Mue 
uiri, F. Muell Fragm. viii. 78.—Rhizome thick e 
creeping. Stems rather slender but rigid, erect and undivided in 
the specimens seen, from about 1 ft. to above 2 ft. high. Sheathing 
more equal rather smaller and more obtuse than in the males. oe 
nodia conspicuous. Styles 3 long and slender. Capsule under L 
road. 
wW. Australia, Drummond, n, 106 d, and 107 9 ; King George's South z 
Mueller ; Lake Muir, Muir ; Busselton, Pries. The species comes very near 
eastern Lh gracilis. 
t 
0. L. stricta, R. Br. Prod. 248.— Rhizome hard and dense bi 
Preiss. ii. 60; F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 74. " 
W. Australia. King George's Sound and adjoining distri R. Brown, Drin » 
€ Are n. 1710, T. Mueller an and others. As as as our specimens go est 
be diceci ue 
species appear to cecious, although the two 
in their inflorescence ns yd perianths. = 
ll. L. macra, Nees in Pi. fee ii. 60.—Stems ems tufted 
but without the creeping rhizome of ET mondiana or o bran 
ing base of phrodita, aufs der, 6 in. to above n 
Sheathing scales, feo the few Se aa ones at the base Athe " 
