Lepyrodia.] CXLII, RESTIACEZ. 219 
all very deciduous leaving annular scars; floral bracts thin, lanceolate, 
3to 4 lines long, also very deciduous. Spikes simple or s ightly com- 
Mueller, Fragm. viii, 75, refers this fo Z. hermaphrodita, but besides the habit 
and stature the flowers in our specimens are certainly unisexual. ose described 
Y Nees were small and starved, but the Kew and other collections contain others 
more than twice their size with a much more luxuriant inflorescence, 
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. 12. L, Drumm : 
ing. Stems erect or flexuose, simple, rather slender, mostly about 1 ft. 
S ges; flowering bracts also very deciduous, laneeolate and thin. 
am spikes or clusters simple or compound, sessile within each bract, 
orming T interrupted terminal spike-like panicle, similar in the males 
a 
a T8; bracteoles shorter, thin, acutely acuminate ale flowers 
~uter perian segments rigid, acutely acuminate, 21 lines long, the 
Inner ones shorter. emale flowers similar but smaller, the 
er 
Whole perianth scarcely 2 lines long. Staminodia small. Capsule 
zormal but not so broad for its length as in most species.—F. Muell. 
Tagm. viii, 75. ~ 
w. ia, Drummond, n. 395 d ,and 347 ot 
is L.glauca, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 77.—Rhizome thick and creeping. 
ems stout, rigid, erect, 2 or 3 ft. hi gh, simple or with a few long erect 
~“ aches. Sheathing scales loose but erect, often 1 to 2 in. long. 
a narrow, interrupted, 3 or 4 in. long with sometimes a spike much 
ow 
Scarious bracts under the smaller branc es, and these again into 
Smaller ovate scarious glumes, the last bracts enclosing a head 
almost sessile flowers, each within a small scarious glume 
