416 CXL. RESTIACER. 
1-celled, indehiscent, surmounted by the remnants of 2 woody 
styles.—Sheaths persistent.— Kunth, l.c. p. 483. 
Tall, reed-like plants, with male inflorescence like that of Willdenovia; 
the female spikelets, however, are not solitary, and the flowers, as well as the 
fruit, are destitute of stalks.—2 species, natives of the Cape. 
12. PANTHOCHORTUS, Nees ab Esenb. 
“Flowers dicecious.—Males subracemose, protected by 
spreading bracts, clusters small, few-flowered, loose, axillary. 
Perianth funnel-shaped, 6-parted, chartaceo-membranous ; seg- 
ments of equal length, the outer ones narrower. Stamens 3, 
opposite to the inner segments ; filaments short, contiguous 
at the base; anthers linear, acute, with a depressed median 
furrow at the upper portion, attached above the base, yellow. 
Rudiment of the pistil 0.—Female flower not known.—Stems 
filiform, tortuous, slender, articulate, fasciculately branched. 
Sheaths leafless, acute, spreading, membranous; special 
sheaths at the origin of each branch obtuse. Clusters short, 
cernuous, solitary in the axils of the upper sheaths. Rachis 
filiform, flexuose. Flowers 2-6, remote, shortly stalked, 
purple? Bract subperfoliate.”—Mees ab Esenb. in Lindl. In- 
trod. Nat. Syst. Bot. ed. 2. p. 451; Kunth, l.c. p. 485. 
A doubtful genus, established upon some fragments of male plants now 
in Dr. Sonder’s herbarium. Probably these are the male plants of a species 
of Hypolena. In the uncertainty as to the true nature of this genus, Nees’s 
description is given at length. 
13. > CRASPEDOLEPIS, Steudel. 
Spikelets terminal, 1-3. Flowers dicecious.-—Males P— 
Female flowers spicate. Bracts imbricate, cartilaginous, aris- 
tulato-mucronate, mostly sterile, naked, fertile bracts 1-2, fim- 
briate at the margin, and provided with 5 stigmatiform appen- 
dages? Sepals 4?, hyaline, oblong, lanceolate. Style 1; 
stigmas 2, shorter than the bracts. Ovary oblong, rather 
rough on the surface, half the length of the petals, Fruit... 
—Steudel, Synops. i. p. 264. 
A doubtful and scarcely-known geuus. 
Orpver CXLI. CYPERACEA. 
Flowers arranged in spikelets, consisting of several scale- 
like, dry or half-herbaceous bracts, called glumes, arranged 
alternately along an axis (rachis or racheole); each glume 
having in its axil a solitary, sessile flower. Perianth either 0 
or formed of a definite number of bristles; or disk-like ; more 
