Restio.] CXLII. RESTIACER. 223 
spikelets terminal, with rarely a sessile one lower down, about 4 lines 
ong. umes not numerous, broad, 2 or 3 outer ones much shorter 
and obtuse, the next acuminate. Flower solitary and terminal. Pe- 
broad, thick and hard, fully 2 lines diameter, opening at the angles.— 
Megalotheca striata, F. Muell. 1. c. 
W. Australi Drummond, 1st coll. and n. 950; also suppl. n. 103 and ». 186.— 
Pane only found 4 perian anth-se segments in the female man - the specimen he 
uim ; in the one I examined there appeared to be 2 outer 3 inner ones, but 
specimens are in fruit and the remains of the perianth nem js ken 
ici IL SrAcHyaYNi.. Stems various. Female ie 
known, containing several flowers as well as the males. 
3. R? tropicus, R. Br. Prod. 246.—Rhizome not seen. Stems 
= ii pn above 2 ft. — Sheathing scales mnie Mey 
: uch bra 
9 
or & outer ones shorter and empty. nth segments 5, 2 outer ones 
A. acuminate, complicate, 3 inner ones shorter broader hyaline 
almost obtuse. Female plant unknown 
N. Australia, Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. 
The female plant being unknown the p s of this species must remain uncertain, 
it may very possibl 
y be a Leptocar the male — ence is however very 
different from that of any other species ‘of either genus 
applanatus, Spreng. Syst. i. 185.—Rhizome very densely 
tufted, sho ortly Eu the iii seen. Stems ici ftm rigid, 
elei. ightly uid ac 2 ft. high or more. Sheathing scales 
Ssely appressed, mo stly obtuse ; the floral bracts small and short. 
in " spikelets numerous in a short terminal panicle, the short but v 
p, dual branches iain within the bracts and more or less divid 
ees ones often reduced to empt perianths and the lowest glumes 
veh S erisath glabrous or slightly — Ovary usually 3- 
Style 
celled HN oum 
Stamina: free irte from the e, long and — 
Aud B. Psi ugaptum s ordiri egre ng o 
me > R. Br. Prod. 245, e of Rottb. 
the mine astralia. King George's Sound, R. Brown, also in Drummond's collection, 
r illegible but more like 104 than 707. 
for t U's «B selected without having seen the plant, is very inappropriate» 
Stem thoug compressed is not flat. 
