Restio.] CXLII. RESTIACER. 227 
4 to 5 lines long, containing usually only 2 or 3 flowers, with several 
empty glumes. Perianth often 2 lines long, the 2 outer segments 
complicate with the dave keel dilated upwards into a scarious jagged 
or ciliate wing as in Leptocarpus tenaz, 3 inner segments lanceolate flat 
and thin, Stamirodia 3. Ovary broad flat, pre 2-celled ; styles 
united at the base, stigmatic in the upper half o Capsule flat, 
thiek, emarginate, about li lines long and broad, od nd at the edges. 
W. Australia, Drummond 1st coll. and n. 948 (3) and 949 (9). 
_ 14. R. australis Br. Prod. 245.—Rhizome Sep woolly- 
i Stems erect, Andi ided, 1 to 2 ft. high or rarely more. 
ower sheathing scales closely reip about kd in 
o 
solitary and sessile or nearly so within the bracts, or 2 within the lower 
ony one on a short pedicel; all ovoid, 4 or 5 lines long. umes 
gussolato, acuminate with a fine point, rather t ird 
w 
et the third flat or sometimes deficient, 3 inner ones flat but sree 
M tus Stamens shortly exserted. Female spikelets usually pane Bie 
rie ser hee male. Perianth-segments 4 or 6. Staminodia 2 or 
ry <-celle Capsule opening on the edges.—F. Mn ll. dirae: 
Vii. 69; Hook. f. Fl Tasm. t 715 j B 
N. S. Wales. Port J siste Sieber, n. v 
porh. oe Moun ue. 
l smania. ne fever, "P. Drot, abosdiint on the mountains in marshy 
Places, J. D, ada nd dite 
rather broad, varying from 21 to 31 lines long, nearly sessile or almost al 
th long as or longer than the bracts. Perianth-segments 6, 
e2 outer ones complicate as in R. australis. Female spikelets longer 
ns 
Owers 2-merous as in R australis but no staminodia.—F. Muell. 
Tagm. viii. 69 ; R. pallens, R. Br. Prod. 245. 
ts Morton I aam. F. Mueller ; Brisb: ane imane 
on: ales. Port ‘othe Blue Mountains, R. Brown, F. Mueller and 
ers "Now lent C. See’ "Tweed River, Guilfoyle ; Richmond River, Mrs. 
Th Tasmania, Recherche Bay, C. Stuart. 
© majority of our male specimens, especially those with the smaller heads, cor- 
coe With Brown’s of R, pallens which are all males. Brown's specimens of R. 
ne all females, with rather long narrow spikelets. Our female specimens are 
either more With shorter and more crowded spikelets than in Brown's but they are 
more advanced or in an imperfect as d 
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