760 RESTIACEH. [ Lepyrodia. 
and almost hyaline. Stamens 3; filaments distinct; anthers 1-celled. 
Female flowers: Perianth as in the males. Staminodia 3, some- 
times with abortive anthers. Ovary 3-angled, 3-celled; styles 3, 
free or connate at the base; ovules 1 in each cell. Capsule trique- 
trous, dehiscing at the angles. 
A small genus of 15 species, all confined to Australia except the following one. 
1. L. Traversii, F’. Mwuell. Fragm. viii. 79.—Bhizome stout, 
creeping, clothed with pale-chestnut scales; roots long, stringy. 
Stems stout, terete, polished, simple below, fastigiately branched 
above, 2-5 ft. high. Sheaths distant, closely appressed, acuminate, 
3-lin. long. Inflorescence a rather narrow closely branched red- 
brown terminal panicle 2-5in. long; branches erect, unequal ; 
bracts under the branches rigid, lanceolate, acuminate. Flowers 
sessile or shortly pedicelled within lanceolate glumes rather longer 
than the perianth; 2 scarious bracteoles at the base of each flower. 
Perianth-segments in both sexes red-brown, lanceolate, acute ; inale 
flowers with a small rudimentary ovary, females with 3 slender 
staminodia. Anthers linear-oblong, minutely apiculate. Ripe fruit 
l-celled, 1-seeded, obliquely ovoid, triquetrous with the angles 
thickened, tipped with the remains of the style, at length dehiscent 
along the angles.—Calorophus sp., Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 267. 
Sporadanthus Traversii, F’. Muell. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. vii. (1878) 
389; Kirk, ibid. x. App. 41. 
Nortu Istanp: Auckland—Swamps between Hamilton and Ohaupo, 
Middle Waikato district, 7. F.C. CHatHam Isntanps: Abundant in peaty 
swamps, Dieffenbach, H. H. Travers! Cockayne ! 
A very curious species. It differs from Lepyrodia in the 1-celled and 
l-seeded fruit, and was consequently erected into a separate genus (Spora- 
danthus) by F. Mueller. In its other characters and in habit, however, it is 
altogether a Lepyrodia, and it appears best to consider it a species of that 
genus with the ovary 1-celled by abortion. I have not seen female flowers 
except old ones persistent with the fruit, and cannot say whether the ovary 
is 3-celled at an early stage, as seems probable. 
2. LEPTOCARPUS, R. Br. 
Stems simple or branched, terete, erect from a stout creeping 
scaly rhizome. Leaves reduced to persistent sheathing scales. 
Flowers dicecious, the spikelets with imbricate glumes with or with- 
out bracteoles, the male and female inflorescences alike or dis- 
similar, sometimes both sexes have the spikelets arranged in 
panicles, sometimes the male spikelets are pedicelled and paniculate, 
and the females sessile and fascicled or spicate. Male flowers: 
Perianth - segments 6. Stamens 3; filaments filiform; anthers 
l-celled. Female flowers: Perianth as in the males. Staminodia 
3 or none. Ovary 1-celled, triquetrous; styles 3, filiform; ovule 
solitary, pendulous. Fruit narrow-ovoid, triquetrous, indehiscent 
or splitting down the angles. . 
