Leptocarpus. | CXLIL, RESTIACED, 231 
Female flowers: Staminodia 3 or none. .Ovary 1-celled, with 1 pen- 
dulous ovule; styles 3 (rarely 2), filiform, free or united to near the 
middle, the free part stigmatic from, near the base. Fruit narrow or 
ovoid, with a thin pericarp opening on one side, or with a thicker 
cried splitting at the angles. Siems simple or branched, leafless 
, The genus like Rest lso rep ted in s Africa, sad S is -—: armen 
M Zealand, but the Australian ones appear to be all e 
Secr. I. Di planthesis.— Male spikelets on filiform potih, peie or pees eras 
mostly pent arl poten sessile, in heads spikes or dense pani 
Female seres regularly imbricate Nec yi bracteoles, 
m: lets numer i in a terminal panicle. 
Femal anth-segments 6, all narrow Dd acuminate, 
ae porin densely ponicute Glumes with i scarious 
margins . L. scariosus. 
Female Derianth-segments 5, 2 outer ones complica te 
Y th a very prominent usually winged keel. pies 
few or rarely in a dense panicle 2. L. tenax. 
Female Spikelets i MISERIAM o booa tho ugh dense e, 
With bracteoles under ms flower. Male spike elets 
E few orin distant — 
emale perianth-segments inde equal or gradually 
Lt ing from the outer ew to the inner smaller 
s. 
Male spikelets few. Females in a compact short : 
Spike-like panicle. Eastern species . 3. L. Brownü. 
Male et in distant loose clusters. “Western 
Female spikelets small in distant c 4, L. canus. 
Female s 
pikelets very small ica the pe oR spiko- E 
like’ ranches of a narr 5. L. coangustatus. 
Female paei, of 3 outer long pi cc par bulat 
ong inner oe closed over the o ovary 
F and ase of the style. rn species. 
emale spikelets in oblong clusters. Perianths ciliate 
F at the base but the Hairs not showing outwards . 6. L. aristatus. 
e Perian 
ciliate, the white hairs showing outwards . . . 7. L.erianthus. 
Lone i Homæanthesis.— I en in both sexes very small, clustered along the 
sofa i tong panicle. Tropica 
lets very densely € reu the short branches 
Mn panicle. 
ofa long 
female pe anth-segments erect, inner short, tomen- 
ben Gein o ote the ovary a ; RP nae 
T ^ E 9. L. tor, 
à Spikelets gments all equal narrow, g glabrous 
: along the few w branches of the 
Panicle. Perianth-segments isish, 
