Hypolena.] CXLII. RESTIACER. 239 
Queensland. Moreton Island, F. Mueller ; Moreton Bay, Leichhardt ; Brisbane 
River, A 
ales. Port Jackson, ^ Brown ; barren spots in the interior, A. Cun- 
ningham ; New England, C. Stua 
ictoria. From Brighton to Gipps Land and ascending the Australian Alps to 
6000 ft. E iy ller ; Mount William, Sullivan. 
Table Mountain Age unt Wellington), R. Brown; abundant 
throughout th the island rf D. Hooker 
in New Zealan 
After F. Mueller I have preferred Brown's specific name to Labillardiére’s, as the 
latter appears from S description to have confounded the preceding and the present 
species under one n. 
.H. gracillima, Benth—Stems much-branched, more slender and 
intricate than in H. late Sed aud staining according to Oldfield 5 
or 6 yards, though usually much smaller. Lower sheathing scales 
appressed, the upper ones Ris floral bracts loose, with a short fine re- 
exed point or lamina. Male spikelets usually 2 Veoh. within the 
several-flowered, narrow-ovate, 2 to 3 lin er empty glumes 
l or 2, rather rigid, with a rigid dorsal point; ring ones very 
"ord scarious but with a prominent dorsal point, the margins slightly 
-lobe 
Peri nth-segments 6, very thin and hyaline, broad and rather longer 
than the ovary. 3 or sometimes 2, dp recurved .— Calo- 
8 
fen gracillimus, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. S8; Calorophus elongatus, 
Pl. Preiss. ii. 68 as to the western plant Eg not of Labill. 
Agy ustralia. King George's Sound and neighbouring districts, Preiss, m. 
Mae 1714, haaye DH aes F pia and others, and perhaps the same species, _ 
urchison River , Old fi 
qe ma male plant is not unlike the slender specimens of that of H. lateriflora, but 
: markabls 4. Gf „correctly matched which I bei ve it to be) is very different, most re- 
r its minute pedicellate spikele 
Section II. Eun HYPOLENA. Male spikelets all cct in a small 
icle as in Restio kyip and several species of Leptocarpus. 
emale spikelets terminal, solitary or in clusters of 2 or 3. 
H. fastigia ata, R. Br. Prod. 251.—Stems pue inen es rather 
ft. hi de erect or ascending "e dead from under 1 ft. to near 2 
g 
a short point; a few lower ones empty. Perianth-segments E $ 
* nes complicate and acutely nes the third lanceolate flat 
