CXXXVIII. XYEIDE.'E. Ill 



X. Capensis^ Thunb., our only species, 13 a small plant, with cquitant, cnsi- 

 form, radical leaves, and cone-shaped spikes of yellow flowers, borne on 

 simple scapes.— Found throu-^hout the colony in marshy situations. 



Order CXXXIX. ERIOCAULINE^. 



Plowers minute, unisexual, mona^cious, rarely dioecious, 

 collected into bracteate heads.— Male : Periantli in 2 series, 

 outer of 2-3 glumes, inner tubular 2-3-iid. Stamens 3-G ; 

 filaments inflexed ; anthers 2-cel led.— Female : Perianth of G 

 pieces in 2 series, the inner broader or reduced to bundles of 

 hairs. Ovary superior, 2-3-celled ; style short ; stigmas 

 2-3 ; ovules solitary, pendulous in each cell. Capsule 2-3- 

 celled, loculicidally 2-3-valved ; cells 1-seeded. Seeds pen- 

 dulous ; testa coriaceous, shining, ribbed ; the ribs hairy ; 

 albumen farinaceous; embryo usually lenticular, removed 

 from the hilum.— Scapigerous herbs, often minute, usually 

 growing in marshes. Leaves narrow, usually all radical. 

 Scapes radical, bearing solitary, minute heads of flowers. 



1. ERIOCAULON, Linn. 



Elowers usually monoecious ; males in the centre of the 

 }jead.— Male: Stamens 2-6, all fertile. —Female : Perianth- 

 segments 6. Ovary 2-3-celled. Capsule 2-3-celled.— -£///(//. 



Usually tropical herbs, wnth slender, radical, rosulate leaves, transparent 

 and beautifully septate under the microscope.— There are 2 Natal species. 



Order CXL. RESTIACE^. 



(% M. T. Masters, M.D., F.L.8.*) 



Flowers dioecious. Perianth glumaceous, persistent, of 0, 

 rarely 4, distinct or rarely connate glumes in 2 rows ; tlu' 

 outer 3 equal or more generally unequal, 2 lateral condui)li- 

 cate, and 1 anterior flat or nearly so ; the 3 inner glumes 

 visually smaller and less rigid than the outer and nearly equal 

 in form, sometimes exceeding the outer glumes. — Male : Sta- 

 mens 3 ; filaments adnate at the base to the inner glumes ; 

 anthers introrse, exserted or included, 1-celled, dehiscing lon- 

 gitudinally, attached to the filament on the dorsal surface 

 below the middle.— Female : Ovary 1-3-celled ; ovules soli- 



* The foUowinfj monograph of the i^enera of Resliacea- \va< been kindly 

 supplied by IJr. Masters.— J. 1>. H. 



