414 CXL. RESTIACES. 
5. THAMNOCHORTUS, Bergius, Brown. 
Male and female spikelets nearly of the same form, spiked 
or panicled, both many-flowered. Perianth of 6 unequal 
glumes, the outer lateral pair, especially in the female flowers, 
often winged. Ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled; style 1, undivided 
or with 2-8 stigmatic branches. Fruit compressed, 1-seeded, 
indehiscent.—Sheaths persistent.—Kunth, l.c. p. 428.  Sta- 
beroha, Kunth, l.c. p. 442. 
Plants having the inflorescence of Restio or Leptocarpus, but distin- 
guished from the former by the indehiscent fruit, and from the latter by the 
winged glumes and usually by the single style—14 species, all South 
African. 
6. CANNOMOIS, Beauv. 
Male and female spikelets dissimilar.—Males numerous, 
small, many-flowered, arranged in loose panicles. Perianth of . 
6 unequal glumes.—Females: Spikelets few, larger than the 
males, solitary or in spikes. Fertile flowers 2 or 3, lateral, ru- 
dimentary flowers numerous. Perianth of fertile flowers of 6 
minute, hyaline, nearly equal glumes. Ovary oyoid, 1-celled, 
1-ovuled; styles 2, distinct. Fruit oblong, compressed, leathery, 
1-celled, 1-seeded, indehiscent.—The vascular bundle, which 
runs up the interior of the fruit to its apex where it enters the 
seed, becomes ultimately detached, and then gives exactly the 
appearance of a seed pendulous from the end of a raphe or 
funiculus. Sheaths of culm persistent.— Kunth, l. c.p. 447. Me- 
santhus, Nees ; Kunth, l.c. p.484. Cucullifera, Nees ; Kunth, 
lc. p. 484. 
The inflorescence is like that of Z’hamnochortus, but the female flowers 
are very different.—3 species, all natives of the Cape. 
7. HYPODISCUS, Nees ab Esenb. 
Male and female spikelets similar, solitary or spicate.— 
Males many-flowered. Perianth compressed, unequally 6- 
glumed.— Female flower.solitary. Perianth not compressed, 
membranous, of 6 nearly equal glumes on a thick fleshy, or on 
a short slender stalk.. Ovary 1-celled, sessile or stalked ; styles 
2. Fruit bony, indehiscent, 1-celled, 1-seeded, stalked, smooth 
or tubercled, often surrounded at the base by a lobed, fleshy 
disk. —Sheaths of culm persistent.— Kunth, l.c. p. 481. 
Beeckhia, Kunth, l.c. p. 448. Lepidanthus, Nees ; Kunth, l.c. 
p. 404. Leucopleus, Nees ; Kunth, l.c. p. 481. 
Plants with the inflorescence and aspect of Restio or Leptocarpus, but 
widely different in the female flower.—11 species, all natives of the Cape. 
