Leptocarpus.] OXLII. RESTIACER. 233 
inflorescence. Sheathing scales closely appressed, under à in. long; 
m » mo: under the panicle similar, the others shorter and more 
u 
spikelet 
al edoid ovate-oblong, about 2 lines long, of a dark brown. 
Glumes ovate, obtuse or with a ver —€ oint. Perianth-segments 
trow, M acute, Styles shorty connate at the base Pees thin. 
—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 73; Wo ]l. Fragm. viii. 93 ; Sehamodum 
X 5, Nees in Sieb. Pl. Exs. 4l d ) ; R. gracilis and R. pallens, 
ees in Sieb. UE n.47, 48 ( s anot of R. Br. ; Leptocarpus thamno- 
cortoides, F. Mue Il. Fragm. viii. 
A edel S. Wal Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, and m 
T8; northward to Newc astle, Leichhardt ; southward to Twofold Bas 
P, Muelle er, 
y itori Common in heats. TS Vale, Robertson ; thence to Gipps’ Land, 
Mui sign eei , Sulla 
rwent um eios waste places throughout the island, 
Sinn VK I Hooker x cha A š 
ed ia. King Geo EN s Sound, R. and adjoining districts, 
Rer n. ‘bg Dr ummond, n. 107, 391, EHE x ucl and others; Blackwood 
ver, Forrest; Swan River, Miss Lukin. Som these western specimens are 
Precisely like dis eastern ones, the females with te — about $i in. long, others 
ve the m spikelets only 3 or 4 lines long, and rather numerous in a dense nar- 
1 rg icle of about 3 in., with many intermedi e states. Brown this cribed the 
made from iata specimens only from his three stations and failed to — 
Plant. Labillardiére mistook for the male that of Lyginia barbat 
com [3 to 6 flowers (or 3 to 6 I owored Educa es on a short 
ten jon axis, but each flower within 1 or 2 bracteoles besides the sub- 
Penang glume and the perianth ; the floral seule glumes, bracteoles and 
th-segments all ovate, acutely acuminate and closely ropi 
