il2 CXL. RESTIACEiE. 



tary, straii^ht, pendulous from the upper and inner angle of 

 each cell of the ovary ; micropyle directed towards the base 

 of the carpel ; styles 1-3, distinct or connate, sometimes 

 wantint; ; stigmas 1-3, plumose on the inner surface, exserted 

 or included. Fruit capsular, 1-3-celled, loculicidally dehiscent, 

 or 1-celled indehiscent and nucumentaceous. tSeed solitary 

 in each cell of the fruit, pendulous ; testa coriaceous, horny or 

 membranous ; hilum naked or rarely thickened ; albumen abun- 

 dant, farinaceous. Embryo lenticular, at one end of the albu- 

 men opposite to the hilum. — Perennial herbs, with creeping 

 or erect, scaly rhizomes, from which proceed simple or 

 branched, leafy or leafless, sterile and fertile, solid or hollow, 

 terete or angular culms ; sheaths persistent, tubular, split on 

 one side, on the smaller branches often provided with folia- 

 ceous mucros. Florets compressed angular or terete, sessile 

 or stalked, fascicled or spicate, protected by bracts ; spikelets 

 1- or more-flowered, solitary or in spikes panicles or fascicles, 

 generally Avith sheath-like spathes intermixed. 



An Order whose members are chiefly to be found in the South-Western 

 corner of Africa and in the analogous quarter of the AustraUan continent ; a 

 few are found elsewhere in Austraha, as well as in New Zealand, Tasmania, 

 and one in ChiH. — 1 or 2 species are used for thatching. 



Fruit capsular, dehiscent. 



Sheaths of the culm persistent 1. Restio. 



Sheaths of the culm deciduous. 



Capsule 3-celled 2. Dovea. 



Capsule 2-celled 3. Askidiospeema. 



Fruit indehiscent. 



Male and female flowers in dense spikes. 

 Female flowers 2 or more in each spikelet. 



Fruit angular ' . . . 4. Leptocaepijs. 



Fruit compressed. 



Outer glumes of female perianth winged . 5. Thamnochortfs. 

 Outer glumes of female perianth not winged 6. Canxomois. 

 Female flowers solitary. 



Female flowers on a thick, fleshy stalk . . 7. Htpodiscus. 

 Female flowers sessile or on a slender stalk . 8. Htpol^na. 

 Male and female flowers in panicles or fascicles . 9. Elegia. 

 Male flowers panicled ; female flowers spicate. 



Fruit on a fleshy stalk 10. Willdenovia. 



Fruit sessile 11. Cekatocaryum. . 



DOUBTFUL OR LITTLE-KNOWN GENERA. 



12. Anthochortus, N. ab Esenb. 



13. Craspedolepis, Steud. 



1. RESTIO, Linn. 



Male and female spikelets of the same form, arranged in 

 spikes or rarely in loose panicles ; flowers numerous, rarely 



