220 OXLII. RESTIACEA. [ Lepyrodia. 
the ovary and divided almost to the base.—Leptocarpus glaucus, Nees in 
Pl. Preiss. ii. 64 
W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, lst coll. Preiss, n. 1693; Blackwood 
and Gordon Rivers, Oldfield ; Busselton, Pries. 
ong or more, spreading from below the middle. Male pamete 
of the stem, pper ones and those on the smaller branches very 
small, passing into the small thinly scarious hyaline glumes which a 
shorter than the periant Flowers as lauca, almost cluster 
very thin, pale brown, almost hyaline, all obtuse, the outer ones p 
about $ line long, the inner oblong, 1i lines long. Stamens exserted, 
without any rudimentary ovary. Females unknown. 
W. Australia, Drummond, 
5. RESTIO, Linn. 
(Megalotheca, F, Muell.) 
Flowers dicecious, both sexes several together or the females ier K 
in spikelets with imbricate glumes aud n eteoles. Pe 
segments 4, 5 or 6, glume-like r dorm 
exceeding the glumes. Male flowers: Stamens 3, filaments filitor ale 
ree; anthers l-celled. Rudimentary ovary small or none. Fem 3 
flowers: Staminodia 3 or none. Ovary 2- or 3-celled ; styles ? geo 
free from the base or very shortly connate, stigmatic almost from ils 
Capsule flat and 2-celled or 3-angled and 3-celled, the €? 
: : dieu single 
The genus is very largely represented in South Africa, without however à ^.^. 
Species identical th the Ausiralian ones which are all endemic. Among pos 
here described there are still several in which either the sexes may have been 
matched or yet unkn d are theref hat uncerta: 
Secr. I. Choristogynia.— Male spikelets several flowered; females 1 fineart 
Stems much branched. Male spikelets sessile along the branches ; females term 
