412 , CXL. RESTIACED. 
tary, straight, pendulous from the upper and inner angle of 
each cell of the ovary; micropyle directed towards the base 
of the carpel; styles 1-8, distinct or connate, sometimes 
wanting ; stigmas 1-3, plumose on the inner surface, exserted 
or included. Fruit capsular, 1-3-celled, loculicidally dehiscent, 
or 1-celled indehiscent and nucumentaceous. Seed solitary 
in each cell of the fruit, pendulous ; testa coriaceous, horny or 
membranous ; hilum naked or rarely thickened ; albumen abun- 
dant, farinaceous. Embryo lenticular, at one end of the albu- 
men opposite to the hilum.—Perennial herbs, with creeping 
or erect, scaly rhizomes, from which proceed simple or 
branched, leafy or leafless, sterile and fertile, solid or hollow, 
terete or angular culms ; sheaths persistent, tubular, split on 
one side, on the smaller branches often provided with folia- 
ceous mucros. Florets compressed angular or terete, sessile 
or stalked, fascicled or spicate, protected by bracts; spikelets 
1- or more-flowered, solitary or in spikes panicles or fascicles, 
generally with sheath-like spathes intermixed. 
An Order whose members are chiefly to be found in the South-Western 
corner of Africa and in the analogous quarter of the Australian continent ; a 
few are found elsewhere in Australia, as well as in New Zealand, Tasmania, 
and one in Chili.—1 or 2 species are used for thatching. 
Fruit capsular, dehiscent. 
Sheaths of the culm persistent . . . . . . 1. ReEsrio. 
Sheaths of the culm deciduous. 
Capsule S-eclled.« 3° fu oles es «tre !2. Doxa 
Capsule 2-celled . . ... =. =. . . . &. ASKIDIOSPERMA. 
Fruit indehiscent. 
Male and female flowers in dense spikes. 
Female flowers 2 or more in each spikelet. 
Fruit angular 
Fruit compressed. 
Outer glumes of female perianth winged . 5 
Outer glumes of female perianth notwinged 6 
Female flowers solitary. 
Female flowers on a thick, fleshy stalk . . 7. Hypopisous. 
8 
9 
. 4, LEPTOCARPUS. 
. THAMNOCHORTUS. 
. CANNOMOIS. 
Female flowers sessile or on a slender stalk . 8. Hyponmya. 
Male and female flowers in panicles or fascicles . 9, ELEata. 
Male flowers panicled ; female flowers spicate. 
Fruit on a fleshy stalk . . . . . . . . 10. WILLDENOVIA. 
Bruit sessile. + s.3)). 4.').. |.0% ~ «|. D, Cmaneonmmeme 
DOUBTFUL OR LITTLE-KNOWN GENERA. 
12. AntHocHoRTUs, N. ab Hsenb. 
13. CRASPEDOLEPIS, Steud. 
1. RESTIO, Linn. 
Male and female spikelets of the same form, arranged in 
spikes or rarely in loose panicles ; flowers numerous, rarely 
