JjIJ^ CXL. BESTIACEiE. 



5. THaMNOCIIORTUS, Bergiuf^, Brown. 



Male and female spikelets nearly of the ^ame form, spiked 

 or panicled, both many-flowered. Perianth of 6 unequal 

 glumes, the outer lateral pair, especially in the female flowers, 

 often winged. Ovary 1-eelled, 1-ovuled ; style 1, undivided 

 or with 2-3 stigmatic branches. Fruit compressed, 1-seeded, 

 indehiscent. — Sheaths persistent. — Kiinth, I.e. p. 428. Sta- 

 beroha, Kuntli, I.e. p. 442. 



Plants having the mflorescence of Restio or Leptocarpus, but distin- 

 guished from tlie former by the indehiscent fruit, and from the latter by the 

 Avinged glumes and usually by the single style. — 14 species, all South 

 African. 



6. CAI^-NOMOIS, Beauv. 



Male and female spikelets dissimilar. — Males numerous, 

 small, many-flowered, arranged in loose panicles. Perianth of 

 6 unequal glumes. — Females : Spikelets few, larger than the 

 males, solitary or in spikes. Fertile flowers 2 or 3, lateral, ru- 

 dimentary flowers numerous. Perianth of fertile flowers of 6 

 minute, hyaline, nearly equal glumes. Ovary ovoid, 1-celled, 

 1-ovuled; styles 2, distinct. Fruit oblong, compressed, leathery, 

 1-celled, 1-seeded, indehiscent. — The vascular bundle, Avhich 

 runs up the interior of the fruit to its apex w^here it enters the 

 seed, becomes ultimately detached, and then gives exactly the 

 appearance of a seed pendulous from the end of a raphe or 

 funiculus. Sheaths of culm persistent. — Kunth, I. c. p. 447. Me- 

 santhus, JVees ; Kwithy I. c. ^.484. Cucullifera, Nces ; Kunth, 



1. c. p. 484. 



The inflorescence is Hke that of Thamnoehorhis, but the female flowers 

 are very diffei*ent. — 3 species, all natives of the Cape. 



7. HYPODISCUS, Nees ab Esenb. 



Male and female spikelets similar, solitary or spicate. — 

 Males many-flowered. Perianth compressed, unequally 6- 

 glumed. — Female flower solitary. Perianth not compressed, 

 membranous, of 6 nearly equal glumes on a thick fleshy, or on 

 a short slender stalk. Ovary 1-celled, sessile or stalked ; styles 



2. Fruit bony, indehiscent, 1-celled, 1-seeded, stalked, smooth 

 or tubercled, often surrounded at the base by a lobed, fleshy 

 disk. — Sheaths .of culm persistent. — Kunth, I. c. 2>- 481. 

 Bocckhia, Kunth, I.e. p. 448. Lepidanthus, Nees ; Kunth, I.e. 

 p. 404. Leucopheus, Nees ; Kunth, I.e. p. 481. 



Plants with the inflorescence and as))ect of Restio or Leptocarpus, but 

 widely different in the female flower. — 11 species, all natives of the Cape. 



