CXXKVITL SYRIDE A 411 
X. Capensis, Thunb., our only species, isa small plant, with equitant, ensi- 
form, radical leaves, and cone-shaped spikes of yellow flowers, borne on 
simple scapes. —Found throughout the colony in marshy situations. 
Orper CXXXIX. ERIOCAULINES, 
Flowers minute, unisexual, moncecious, rarely dicecious, 
collected into bracteate heads.—Male: Perianth in 2 series, 
outer of 2-8 glumes, inner tubular 2-3-fid. Stamens 3-6; 
filaments inflexed ; anthers 2-celled.—Female: Perianth of 6 
pieces in 2 series, the inner broader or reduced to bundles of 
hairs. Ovary superior, 2-3-celled; style short; stigmas 
2-3; ovules solitary, pendulous in each cell. Capsule 2-38- 
celled, loculicidally 2-83-valved; cells 1-seeded. Seeds pen- 
dulous; testa coriaceous, shining, ribbed; the ribs hairy ; 
albumen farinaceous; embryo usually lenticular, removed 
from the hilum.—Scapigerous herbs, often minute, usually 
growing in marshes. Leaves narrow, usually all radical. 
Scapes radical, bearing solitary, minute heads of flowers. 
1. ERIOCAULON, Linn. 
Flowers usually monecious; males in the centre of the 
-head.—Male: Stamens 2-6, all fertile.—Female: Perianth- 
segments 6. Ovary 2-3-celled. Capsule 2-3-celled.—Endl. 
Gen. Pl. p. 123. 
Usually tropical herbs, with slender, radical, rosulate leaves, transparent 
and beautifully septate under the microscope.—There are 2 Natal species. 
Orper CXL. RESTIACEA. 
(By M. T. Masrrrs, M.D., F.L.S.*) 
Flowers dicecious. Perianth glumaceous, persistent, of 6, 
rarely 4, distinct or rarely connate glumes in 2 rows; the 
outer 3 equal or more generally unequal, 2 lateral condupli- 
cate, and 1 anterior flat or nearly so; the 3 inner glumes 
usually smaller and less rigid than the outer and nearly equal 
in form, sometimes exceeding the outer glumes.—Male: Sta- 
mens 3; filaments adnate at the base to the inner glumes; 
anthers introrse, exserted or included, 1-celled, dehiscing lon- 
gitudinally, attached to the filament on the dorsal surface 
below the middle-—Female: Ovary 1-3-celled ; ovules soli- 
* The following monograph of the genera of Restiacee has been kindly 
supphed by Dr. Masters.—J. D. H. 
