Lowocarya, | CXLII. RESTIACER. 241 
flowers: No staminodia. Perianth of 3,4 or 6 short broad very thin 
segments or none. Ovary 1-celled with 1 pendulous ovule. Style 
i i "ruit 
or obovoid usually hard nut, indehiscent except in L. cinerea.—Stems 
d oft 
The genus is limited to West Australia, 
oe peria che lon s 3 or4 dece known). 
Oweri ranches long and slen: 
Glahrous ide Rd SiE E NONE 
Softly. vio" SQ D MS aen 
Flowering branchos short and clustered. 
Stems above 1 ft. Male spikelets i * 2 sessile - the 
b ranch: besides the t yov go Females on the : 
same specimen . . 9. L. virgatae. 
Stems under 1 ft, Male spikelets "solitary on fhe fili- 
form branches appearing lateral from the bract 
ri cin ara branch, or few in very irregular dicho- 
tom 4. L. pubescens, 
Female o lowers” without any perianth within the “enclosing 
Spikelets’ solitary on oo densely clustered with leaf- : 
e barren bran 5. L. fasciculata. 
None ‘a a flexuose, with distant ‘sessile 
spikelets 
Stems glabrous or with very few scattered hairs . . . 6. L. fleruosa. 
Stems cmm or Fines scabrous-pubescent, Nut dehiscent . ) L. cinerea. 
sa, Benth.—Stems quite glabrous, considerably above 1 
with numerous long slender flexuose bra NUM — 
B d quite hyaline, Style undivided, with a long thick stigmatic por- 
alorophus densus, Nees in PL Preiss. i i. 67. 
Maris "stralia, Swan River, Drummond, 1st coll. (3) King George's Sound, 
» vestita, Benth—Stems 6 to 10 in. bigh; p aniculatel 
bash red ind ba ferme like ZL. densa, hut softly Silos ed 
Ni tish hairs, Sheathing scales appressed. Male comen solitary, 
OL. vrr, 
