CXL. RESTIACER. 413 
solitary, compressed ; perianth of 6 unequal glumes.—Males : 
Stamens 3; pistil rudimentary or wholly wanting— Female: 
Stamens rudimentary or 0. Ovary 2-3-celled ; style 1, dividing 
into 2-3 stigmatic branches. Capsule compressed, 1—2-locu- 
lar (by abortion), dehiscing longitudinally through the dorsal 
suture.—Aunth, Hnum. ii. p. 382. Rhodocoma, Nees ab Hsen- 
beck; Kunth, l.c. p. 480. Ischyrolepis, Stewdel, Synops. Glumac. 
li. p. 249. 
Rush-like plants, with persistent sheaths.—Species 75-80. An equal 
number in Australia. 
2. DOVEA, Kth. 
Flowers fascicled or in dense spikes, more or less triangular, 
longer than the bracts. Perianth of 6 unequal glumes in 2 
rows; the inner longer than the outer.—Male: Stamens 3. 
Rudiment of pistil 3-lobed or 0.—Female: Staminodia 3, ligu- 
late or 0. Ovary 3-lobed, 3-celled. Capsule 3-lobed, 3-celled, 
surmounted by the persistent base of the style, and splitting 
longitudinally at the projecting angles. Seeds with numerous 
raised wavy longitudinal ridges.—Kunth, l.c. p. 457. 
Rush-like plants, with deciduous sheaths, having the inflorescence and 
general aspect of Hlegia, with the fruit of Restio.—7 species, all natives of 
the Cape. 
3. ASKIDIOSPERMA, Steudel. 
Male flowers in a dense panicle or loose spike. Bracts 
linear, membranous; flowers triangular; glumes acute.— 
Female: Flowers in a compact spike; glumes lanceolate, 
lacerated at the margins, the inner 3 longer than the outer. 
Staminodes small, strap-shaped. Capsule oblong, compressed, 
2-lobed, dehiscent.—A. rush-like plant, with deciduous sheaths, 
which are of a greenish-blue colour.—Steud. l.c. p. 257. 
A little-known genus, represented by a single species; when better known, 
it will probably be referred to some other genus. So far as at present 
known, it seems to connect Hlegia or Dovea with Restio.—1 species. 
4. LEPTOCARPUS, Brown. 
Male and female spikelets nearly of the same form, ar- 
ranged in spikes or panicles ; many-flowered or rarely with a 
solitary flower. Perianth of 6 unequal glumes.—Male: Sta- 
mens 3.—Female: Ovary 3-angular, 1-celled, 1-ovuled ; stig- 
mas 3. Fruit 3-angular, horny, indehiscent, 1-seeded.—Sheaths 
persistent.—Kuwnth, l.c. p. 480. Calopsis, Beauv. ; Kunth, l.c. 
p. 421. 
The species have precisely the habit and appearance of Restio, but are 
distinguished by their triangular, 1-celled, indehiscent fruit.—6 African, 
besides a few Australian species, 
