246 CXLII. RESTIACER. [Chetanthus. 
. 1. C. leptocarpoides, R. Br. Prod. 251.—Male plant unknown 
Coin plant: stems densely tufted, slender, undivided, about 1 ft. 
high. Sheathing scales narrow, clo sely appressed, mostly with short 
fine erect points. Spikelets about 14 lines long, glabrous, ofa dar 
brown, rather numerous but collected in a terminal ovoid branching 
but compact pego 3 or 4 lines diameter ang sometimes rather long. 
between the rails very thin hyaline and narrow Perianths on very 
short cylindrical pedicels on a flat receptacle, 3 outer linear segments 
about Ì line long, the 3 inner hair-like segments about half as long. 
Style Mice exceeding the SA Fruit apparently an indehiscent 
ut not seen ripe.— uell. Fragm. viii. 97; JPrionosepatum 
Gilber gi Stand, Syn. Glum. ii. 266 (the style described as an ananthe- 
nd 
, King George's Sound, R. Brown, and probably in the same 
Bilis Cec sie g Drummond, n. 392; Busselton, Pries. 
11. ONYCHOSEPALUM, Steud. 
Flowers dicecious, both sexes several together in solitary term - 
spikelets, with imbricate glumes. C doses e ay ya th sexes oe 
very thin and hyaline, contracted into claws. Stamen anthe gc 
Hon Ovary stipitate, l-ovulate, with a simple slender ean signs ut 
upper portion. ue fruit unknown.—Stems simple, withou 
uni scales ane e base. 
The genus is limited to the ps Australian species. 
2 
claws. Ant hers e rted. No rudiment of the ovary. 
let about the size ot the male, but with rather numerous Mess cn 
glumes broad brown and very rigid nearly 2 lines long a à ier 
fie oint; flowering glumes also rather numerous. Pen anth-segr i 
~ those of the males or narrower, with a longer more » capillary e» 
Fragm. ix 
W. Australia, Cii mer gr n. 325 (or AE and 327. This plant has the asper 
+h 
Orver OXLIII. CYPERACEJE. | 
` Flowers Veios id or pos in little green or brown ee 
spikelets, consisting of several ‘seale-like bracts called g! 
