228 CXLII. RESTIACEJE.. [ Restio. 
16. R. complanatus, R. Zr. Prod. 245.— Rhizome short and eae 
with little or no wool. Stems densely tufted, erect, simple, mue 
flattened. Sheathing scales appressed, obtuse, ‘rather thin, $ de in. 
ong. Male spikelets rather numerous, in a narrow panicle, on fili s 
pedicels, narrow-ovate, ncitecaly 3 lines long.  Glumes shortly 
glumes rather distant. Ovary sessile, 2-merous. Capsu e scarcely 
dehiscent.— Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 71; F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 67. 
ueensland. - en River, Baile 
R N. S. Wal rt Jackso n, R, ens 2, Sieber, n. 8 and many others ; northward 
Hastings River, Bua es apai Ciega to Twofold Bay, F. Mueller x. 
Victoria, Lawr River, Robertson; Mount Abrupt and Grampians, 
Muto; Mount William, Sullivan. Town, 
ania. Derw nt Rive T, R. Brown ; about Circular Head and George 
Psion "Bouth port, C. E tua 
the erect appressed sheathing scales. Spikelets in both sexes in 
rather numerous, pedicellate in a narrow loose panicle. Male sp! as 
from narrow ovate to nearly globular, 2 to 3 lines long. die K 
acuminate, with short fine points. dup ups 6, 2 outer is i 
road and P gains the third n , 93 inner flat and hyaline, 
d and 2 narrow 
h : 
Hook. f. ^w Tasm. ii. 71; F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 66. 
pA 
Queensland. Brisbane River, Leichhardt, Bailey y; Wide Bay, Sheridan; Roc 
i Bra Thozet. ieri 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber n. 34 and others; northw* d 
Cladéeico and Hastings Rivers, Beckler, Wilcox ; New England, C. Stuart ; Ric 
River, Mos Hodgkinson. xs 
eee ortlan i MT River, Gipps’ Land, F. Mueller. à 
birgana ioe re; Huon ver, & Fd ; abundant throughout bs 
island formin ts, J. 3e fus 
ik 
poser soia with large ovate the y with small aires globular sp I 
According to Y Mueller the Pi pe e latter variety open at the edges, , 
have not myself succeeded in finding an Toek. 
southern 
elets. 
ut 
18. R, laxus, R. Br. Prod. 245 (n. 3).—Rhizome creeping. pr 
rather — terete, erect or prp ue or slightly be 
Sheathing scales loose, dilated and spreading above the middle, Y di 
obl aa Mu pes glabrous. Seiko few, sometimes only 1 or 2; 
