Caustis.] CXLIII. CYPERACES, 421 
tered branches filiform, 1 to 2 in. long or even yes all very flexuose 
orincurved. Sheathing scales brown, with short erect points. Spike- 
lets single, on pedicels mixed with the clustered branches and resem- 
bling them, very narrow linear, 3 to 4 lines long, all apparently equally 
fertile. Glumes narrow, acute, the lower empty ones shorter and 
More aristate. Persistent style-base brown, often as long as the nut 
and slightly contracted at the base, more or less pubescent at the time 
of flowering, usually glabrous on the ripe nut.— , Enum. ii. 306, 
partly ; Guillem. Ic. Pl. Austral. t. 14; F. Mu rll Fragm. ix, 19; 
Restio crispatus, Nees in Sieb. Agrostoth. n. 37. 
n, Armstro 
pape Moreton per Island, F. ` Mueller 
. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, Brown, Woolls and 
a Con a s Creek, yim ald ; Castle Creek, pora quom New England, C. 
Stuart ; southward to Ill awarra, A Cunningham. 
Victoria. East Gipps Land, Walker 
3. C. recurvata, Spreng. Syst. Cur. Post. 26.—Stems knotted and 
almost bilbe at the base, unisexual but the males and females often 
n 
the inner one ae a acuminate. Female uote much shorter, 
b on short flexuose or involute pedicels. Stamens usually 5 or 
rely fewer, without anthers in the females. Style-branches. 3, the 
style usually rudimentary in the males. Nut ovoid-oblong, — 
nto the na Muell. F 
3.19; Restio uncina tus, Nees in Sieb. Agrostoth. n 
H. N. s. Males. Port Jackson, C. Moore, Fitzgerald; Richmond River, Mrs, 
odg kinson 
et Sieberi, — - originally referred by Nees in Linnsa, ix. 301, 
transferrin P a mistake which he corrected in Ann. Nat, Hist. ser. 1. vi. 50, 
to the Eee. Sieberi 
at; C restiacea, F. Muell. Herb—Stems nearly 2 ft. high, knotted 
tt the base and unisexual as in C. recurvata, of which this may possibly 
Variety, but much more y dicii, and the female d 
times hot more flexuose than the males, the peduncles and ultimate 
ranches as slender as in C. flexuosa. Male Bera het than in 
