244 CXLII. RESTIACER. [ Loxocarya. 
loosely pubescent. Sheathing scales broad and loose, short or -— 
h i Male spikelets usually: several, sessile e 
distant along the branches, ovate, about 1i lines long, many-flowered. 
E 
or 
male spikelets terminating short branches or peduncles, very weis 
about 2 lines long. Glumes few (about 5) broad and closely rote 
perianth or staminodia. tyle long, undivided, stigmatie from — 
the middle. Fruit at length dehiscent on one side.— Calorophus o. 
Nees in Pl. Preiss, ii. 67; Hypolena pubescens, Nees l. c. 0" 
partly. 
W. Australia. King George's Sound and adjoining districts, R. Brown, ue 
field, F, Mueller and others, and thence to Swan River, Drummond, n. 340, Pr bcn: 
1694, 1716, 1721, and others, eastward to Mount Barren, Phillips and 
Rivers, Mazwell. 
9. LEPIDOBOLUS, Nees. 
lets with imbricate glumes and no bracteoles. Perianth of 3: 
narrow glume-like or scarious segments. Male flowers : Stamens 9; 
filaments filiform ; anthers l-celled. Female flowers: No staminodis. 
Flowers diceious, both males and females several together, in ey 
; ) 
: : : : Stems 
a small indehiscent ovoid or obovoid nake 
simple, erect or flexuose, the sheathing scales very deciduous ar 
distant annular scars. Spikelets solitary and terminal, or in the m 
with 1 or few others lower down. 
The genus is limited to extratropical Australia. 
izome creeping. ms slender. Spikelets 1 or 2. 
Male spikelets nearly globular, about 3 lines diameter. ola: 
Glumes scarcely ciliate, with very short joints 1. L. drapetoe 
Male spikelets ovoid, 4 to 3 in. long. 
Glumes ciliate, SERRE 
rounded or acute, with fine A ur o0. 9. L, Preissynus 
Stems rather stout, densely tufted. Male spikelets 3 or 4, 
obular, diameter. Glumes ciliate, rounded or halis. 
cate, with very finepoints . . . . . . . , 3. Zn chectocep 
da drapetocoleus, F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 04. Bhisome ma 
ing, woolly-hairy. Stems in our specimens all simple, sene"? 
Eps g 
1 ft. long or more, glabrous, with a few short brown perme 
: a 
ular scars. ale spikelets solitary and terminal or pine 
second pedicellate one lower down in the il of a deciduous floral d 
broadly ovate, about 3 lines long. Glumes oblong, acuminate, th- 
a short point, the outer ones broader [ sé 
, but very few empty. 
 Scarious, about 1} lines long, "op but 2 outer one 
