240 CXLIL RESTIACER. [ Hypolena. 
rather acute, the 3 inner rather shorter and more obtuse. Anthers 
almost t sessile, dorsally attached very near the base to the very short a4 
ment. Female spikelets solitary -€— Maias: or rarely Bs 
together, 2 to 3 lines long. Glum h more ee than in t : 
males. Perianth-segments 6, thinly de searious, very broad and only eet 
as long as the ovary. Styles shortly connate at the base. Nut ha - 
sessile on a thickened receptacle. eak f asm. ii. 74, t. 137 ; 
Muell. Fragm. viii. 84; Restio clavatus, R. Br. "Prod. 246 
N. S. Wales, Port Jackson, R. Brown and many other Mueller 
Victoria. Glenelg River, doe tson, Port Phillip and "neighbourhood, F. Mw 
and many others ; Grampians, Sullivan. JD 
Tasmania, R. Bro abundant in sandy places where wet in winter, ^. + 
Hooker and others 
S. Australia. Guichen Bay and Encounter Bay, F. Mueller, 
. H. exsulca, A. Br. Prod. 251.—Male plant raped resembling 
H preston the stems usually less branched a nd t uch-branehe 
none, the spikelets rather broader, the perianth and stamens the geo 
Female plant more rigid ii h flexuose branches. Spikelets eithe 
earth and terminal or more frequently 2 or sometimes 3 wer i 
ar the ends of the branches, each 4 to 6 lines onp Glumes sree 
e 
segments broad and thin searcely exceeding the ovary and shorter par: 
the fruit. Style elongated, the 3 bha shorter than the entire ae 
Nut ovoid, hard, on a thick receptacle as in other species.—Nee 
ss. H. 69 ; 
me * n 
of R. Br.; H. grandiuscula, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. pu (spikslets brow 
but young) ; Restio vacillans, a Syn. Glum. 
d 
W. Australia. King George's Sound, R, Brown, A. Cunningham, f. prie (3 ) 
others thence to Swen es Drunithond. st? coll, and w. 337 (d) and 3 
Pelis h. 1703, 1783 and others 
In Brown's Prodromus the letters J. M. D. are, probably by some der error, 
affixed both to H. fastigiata and H.ezsulea, which he seems at on ne time to 
his her' 
s 
one species, but hi: barium as well as his unam — wies - 
eant to apply ^ former name to the east ern, the latte ge - 
Ta all the fomes. I sns pied the difference in the style dua mue: - 0 
characters has a: dee Hom 
8. LOXOCARYA, R. Br. 
Flow diciæous or moneecious, the males several together ies 
females ntis in Bi cgi with imbrieate glumes and no o bracteo 
Male flowers : h- ents 6, g uu MAT. or thin and à ent 
eri filaments filiform or flattened, rein i-celled. No rude 
of the ovary or rarely a small one in the terminal flower. Fe 
