CXL. RESTIACER. 415 
8S. HYPOLANA, R. Br. 
Male and female spikelets dissimilar-—Males numerous, 
many-flowered, small, in spikes or panicles.—Females few, 1- 
flowered, spicate. Perianth of 6 unequal or nearly equal 
elumes in 2 rows. Ovary sessile, 1-celled ; style 2-3-parted. 
Fruit ovoid or subglobose, bony, indehiscent, often surmounted 
by a thickened yellow disk or stylopod, 1-celled, 1-seeded. 
—Sheaths of culm persistent.— Kunth, l.c. p. 451. 
The male plants resemble Restio, the females Hypodiscus in aspect ; from 
the first they differ in the fruit, and from the latter in the sessile fruit, ab- 
sence of disk, etc.—10 species, besides a few others, natives of Australia, 
Tasmania, etc. 
9. ELEGIA, Thunb. 
Male and female spikelets nearly of the same size and form, 
arranged in rather loose panicles, 1-flowered. Flowers com- 
pressed or triangular. Perianth of 6 glumes in 2 rows, in the 
male flowers the outer glumes shortest. Ovary 1-celled by 
abortion ; styles 3, rarely 2. Fruit triangular, rarely pyri- 
form or compressed, 1-celled, 1-seeded, indehiscent.—Sheaths 
of culm deciduous, rarely persistent (2. deusta).—Kunth, 1. c. 
p. 460. 
Readily distinguished from its allies by its deciduous sheaths, panicled 
inflorescence, and indehiscent, 1-celled fruit. The latter characters sepa- 
rate it from Dovea.—13 species, all South African. 
10. WILLDENOVIA, Thunb. 
Male and female spikelets considerably different in size and 
form ; males many-flowered, small, numercus, in loose panicles. 
—Male flowers: Bracts and glumes linear, membranous.— 
Female spikelets large, solitary, rarely 2; bracts coriaceous, 
rigid. Flowers solitary, terminal, on a thickened, spongy, 6- 
lobed pedicel. Perianth of 6 nearly equal hyaline glumes in 
2 rows. Ovary l-celled; stigmas 2, rarely 3. Fruit stipi- 
tate, cylindrical, horny, indehiscent, 1-celled, 1-seeded.— 
Sheaths of culm persistent.—Kuwnth, l.c. p. 452. Nematanthus, 
Nees ; Kunth, l.c. p. 452. 
The female plants are closely allied to Hypodiscus, but the male inflores- 
cence is different, and more like that of Ceratocaryum.—8 species, all South 
African. 
11. CEHRATOCARYUM, Nees ab Esenb. 
Male and female inflorescence dissimilar—Male thyrsoid, 
bracts and glumes linear-lanceolate, membranous, inner glumes 
shortish.—Female spikelets 2-3, spicate. Flowers solitary, 
terminal. Perianth sessile, minute, hyaline, of 6 glumes in 2 
rows, the inner row smallest. Ovary... Fruit sessile, bony, 
