236 CXLII. RESTIACE®. [.Leptocarpus. 
W. Australia, Dr meni, n. 81 and 943; ; Albany and Stirling Range, F. Mueller, 
Morwell, Mas ; Gordon and Vasse Rivers, Oldfield. Tt is possible that this may 
prove to be a variety of x: aristatus, but the two appear to me to have been rightly 
distinguished by F. Mueller. 
Section IL HowcawTHESIs. Spikelets in both sexes very small, 
dibitered along the branches of a long panicle. 
8. L. ramosus, R. Br. Prod. 250.—Rhizome unknown. Stems 
terete, erect, divided into a few long erect branches, above 2 ft. high, 
and sometimes the flowering branches again TUR divided. Sheathing 
scales closely appressed, shortly acute, in specimens per erhaps 
diseased, imbricate at the ends of the dd. Spike-like ipse 
nd numerous i M 
shorter, obtuse, densely covered with a white gene ces 
closed over the e glabrou us Fue Style filiform, divided to the ae 
nto 3 or sometimes 2 stigmatic branches.—F. Muell. Fragm. vill 9 
pud land Endeavour River, Banks and Solander, Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; 
aintree River, Fitzalan, 
9. L. elatior, R. Br. Prod. 250.—Khizome unknown. BM 
above 2 ft. hi b rather stout and undivided in the specimens eo" 
Sheathing scales closely appressed, acuminate. Male specimens x 
seen. Female spikelets very small and numerous, of a rieh dà 
and broad, glu acutely acuminate. Perianth-segments 6, mer 
3 line long, all nearly equal and p glabrous or minutely cr 
Ovary glabrous. Styles 2 or 3, free fro base or nearly so. 
the 
about 3 line long, the pericarp readily splitting into 2 or 3. 
. N. Australia. Gulf of Carpentaria and North Coast (Arnhem's pci 1. 
Brown. As observed in n other Restiacez some diseased inflorescences 
r flowers filled with the black granules of a fungus. 
Queensland. Daintree [een Fitzalan. 
eus, R. Br. Prod. 250.—Rhizome unknown. Stems 
10. L. xa 
erect, 2 ft. high or more, divided into few rigid and erect or m0 
numerous slender —— flexuose branches. Sheathing ge 
closely appressed, acute or shortly acuminate.  Spike-like panicles 
