220 M CXLII. RESTIACER. [ Restio. 
Perianth-segments narrow. Glumes with short mgid points. 
Female spikelets about 3 lines long, narrow. lumes acuminate. 
lowers 2 in the spikelet examined. Perianth-segments 6. Capsule 
of the lower flower l-celled by abortion, very oblique, the style 
bipartite, in the upper flower 2-celled and regular. 
W. Australia. Lucky Bay, R. Brown. 
11. R.? nitens, Nees in Pl. Preiss. ii. 59.— Rhizome creeping, with 
very little wool, the imbricate scales on the rhizome and base of the 
stem very rigid and shining brown. Stems under 1 ft. high, paniculate 
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specimens the ovaries are converted into ovoid acute utrieles filled with 
black granules (Uredo Restionis, Nees). 
W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, lst coll., Preiss, n. 1696, perhaps "d 
Specimens from the same gathering, as Preiss and Drummond were for some 
together. 
12. R.? gracilior, F. Muell. Herb.—Rhizome creeping, with "7 
little wool. Stems slender, 1 to 2 ft. high, erect with several ere 
ches, quite glabrous, suleate-striate. Sheathing scales pmi 
closely appressed, obtuse. Male spikelets rather numerous, termi? i 
and sessile along the slender branches of a loose panicle, all erect; 
shining brown, ovate or oblong, about 3 lines long. Glumes lanceolate, 
acutely acuminate. Perianth-segments 6, all narrow, 2 outer vij 
concave, the third and the 3 inner ones flat. Anthers shortly exserted. 
Females unknown. 
W. Australia, Drummond, n, 68 and 71. The habit is nearly that of the eastern 
R. gracilis. : 
3. R. chaunocoleus, F. Muell. Fragm, viii. 64.—hhizome thich, 
shortly creeping, dens ly covered with a whitish wool not conceale » 
seales. Stems erect, simple, slender but rigid, terete, glabrous, 9 
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‘ones very narrow-linear, rigid, concave or plicate, 3 inner pee 
lanceolate flat and very thin. Female spikelets much fewer, narro": 
