Lepidobolus.] | CXLII. RESTIAGER. 245 
rather poe Ages concave and ciliate, the others flat. Anthers 
exserted. specimens probably female but diseased have broader 
vtm inde an utricle filled with the black granules of a 
Victoria. Glenelg River, Robertson ; pe apg F. Mueller. 
S. Australia. Onkaparinga River, 7. Muel 
2. L.Preissianus, Nees in Pl. Preiss. ii. 66.—Rhizome creeping, 
woolly-hairy. Stem about 1 ft. high, rather slender, simple, erect or 
flexuose, glabrous, with a few short persistent scales s at the base, the 
cars. Male spi 
terminal or a second sessile one lower down, at first ovoi i 
long but at length oblong and $in. Glumes very lie Obie rigidly 
1 or 2 of the lowest broad, almost without eo the upper empty, 
middle —EF. Mue ll. l. Fragm. nod 
i Australia. Swan River, Drummond, lst coll., Preiss, n. 1755 ; Murchison 
Ver, Oldfield, 
ae L. chetocephalus, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 84.—More rigid than 
Preis ssianus, the rhizome not elongated, the bases of the stems 
densely tufted. Male spikelets or heads 2 to 4, 1 terminal the others 
aycu almost globular, 3 in. diameter when fally out. Glumes oblong 
eo 0 
n fruit, bro 
the perianth ' the is already fallen away. 
om: Australia. Swan River, Drummond, 1st coll. and n.954; Murchison River, 
10. CHZETANTHUS, R. Br. 
(Prionosepalus, Steud.) 
o Flowers dieeious, the males unknown. Female flowers several 
? Sether i in short spikelets with imbricate glumes. Perianth of 3 outer 
near hyaline 
Spi Simple, with persistent ‘closely appressed sheathing scales. ` 
Spikelets small, exowded in in a terminal cluster. 
PON u Iced i a agis cedens cdd in West Australia. 
