232 OXLII. RESTIACER. [ Leptocarpus. 
. L. spathaceus. 
BENE Eres Ne Asa E » 
Stem cottony-villous . . . . í eca E « LL. DL. Sehulion 
ECTION I. Dretantuests.—Male spikelets on pee 
panieulate or clustered, mostly pendulous. Female spikelets sessie, 
in heads spikes or dense panicles. 
? listinguish 
The male plants of this section show no generic character or M are viet 
them from the males of Restio leptocarpoides and allied species. The fem 
different, 
e : ina 
or more. Sheathing scales closely appressed, mostly termama 
hin hyali i 
; i ; iving the 
usually with rather bro hite scarious hyaline margins, Pte ai 
panicle a variegated appearance. Rhachis of the spikelets = line 
long hairs. erianth-segments 6, all narrow, aeute, almos 
Ai m. 
and equal. Styles capillary (or short, F. Muell.).—F. Muell. Frag 
viii. 94; Sch 
thers, 
: ia. King George's Sound, R. Brown, Milne, F. Mueller it dr (9) 
and thence to Swan River, Drummond, 1st coll. and n. 945 (d) an 
Oldfield, i 
: female 
own described this species like the L. tenar and L. aristatus hes very 
specimens only, having failed to match them with their correspo: noce MM 
testimony of m 
the male of L. scariosus would include Restio cinerasceas, R. Br. Prod 
Georze's Soun in Pl Preiss. ii. 5 
imens 
with rather more numerous smaller spikelets. Some female awe 
from Swan River, Drummond, differ slightly in their narrow spike-like pani ing. 
i es and a iry rhachis, the rhizome is also more creep! 94, bas 
River, Pries, mentioned by F. Mueller, Fragm. viii. and the 
ith very broad scarious margins to the gu the same 
inth-segments are large and hyaline, but belongs most probably 
species, : 
R. Br. Prod. 250.—Rhizome creeping. Stems 
1; 0 
2. L. tenax, R. t 
3 ft. high, slender especially the males, undivided, the whole ya 
glabrous except sometimes a slight tomentum on the rhachis 9 
