Restiacee.) FLORA OF TASMANIA. 71 
DIsTRIB. Victoria. 
Brown describes this as having generally but one sheath on the culm, and a single amentum; such is the case 
with my smallest specimens only; the larger ones have numerous sheaths, and three to five alternate, peduncled 
amenta.— Culms 6-18 inches high, slender, bright-yellow when dry, glabrous or pubescent, rarely divided, terete, 
or grooved on one side above each node on the face opposite the vagina. Sheath 44 inch long, lax, spread open, 
coriaceous, truncate, often ciliate or villous. Amenta 4-4 inch long, broadly ovate. Scales imbricating all round, 
blunt, dark-brown, slightly ciliated, as are the perianth-scales. — Styles separate from the very base. — PLATE 
CXXXV. 4. Fig. 1, male flower; 2, female ditto, laid open; 3, ripe fruit; 4, transverse section of ditto; 5, fruit, 
dehisced ; 6, one valve of ditto :—all magnified. 
2. Restio complanatus (Br. Prodr. 245); dense cespitosus, culmis simplicibus compressis, vaginis 
strictis membranaceis basi integris !, amentis laxe paniculatis erectis, masculis ovatis, femineis ovato-oblon- 
gis, squamis lanceolatis aristato-acuminatis ciliatis, perianthiis 4-glumis, stylo bifido v. bipartito. (Gunn, 
962.) 
Has. Common in heathy places about Circular Head and Georgetown, Gunn, and probably in other 
paris of the Island.—(Fl. Nov., Dec.) 
DisrRiB. New South Wales and Victoria. 
Culms from very short, tufted rhizomes, 6-24 inches high, quite flat, or much compressed and two-edged. 
Sheaths membranous, with a short, erect, blunt apex, quite entire at the base. menta panicled in the upper 
sheaths, on long, slender peduncles, few or numerous, 4 inch long, oblong ovate. Scales numerous, membranous, 
ovate, acuminate, aristate, ciliate, pale-brown and shining. Perianth of four membranous glumes. Ovary orbi- 
cular, flat, with a slender style bifid at the top or to the base. 
3. Restio australis (Br. Prodr. 245); culmis simplicibus teretibus levibus, vaginis laxiusculis ob- 
tusis supremis bracteisque tumidis, amentis ovatis racemosis v. subspicatis bracteis persistentibus brevioribus, 
squamis acuminatis aristatis laxe ciliatis lanatisve, perianthiis masculis 6-glumis, feemineis 4-glumis, ovario 
compresso, stylo 2-partito.— Sieber, Agrostoth. 33. (Gunn, 422.) 
Has. Abundant on the mountains, in marshy places.—(Fl. Dec., Jan.) (v. v.) 
Distriz. New South Wales and Victoria. 
Culins tufted, 1-2 feet high, perfectly smooth, terete, not shining. Sheaths erect, blunt, split to the base, 1 inch 
long, the upper tumid, passing into bracts enclosing the amenta. -4menta shortly peduncled, racemose, crowded at 
the top of the culms, broadly ovate, pale-brown and shining, subsguarrose from the spreading aristate points of 
the rather membranous scales. 
4. Restio gracilis (Br. Prodr. 245); “culmis teretibus levibus, vaginis strictis obtusis, spica mul- 
tiflora subcomposita, spiculis femineis cylindraceo-oblongis acutis bracteas superantibus, squamis aristato- 
acuminatis, perianthiis 4-glumis, stylo bipartito.” —Br. 7. c. 
Has. Tasmania, Brown. ` 
DisrarB. New South Wales, Br. 
I have seen no specimens of this species from Tasmania, but it appears to be best distinguished from its con- 
geners of that country by its numerous spiked amenta, which are not overtopped by the bracts, as in R. australis. 
y 2. Culms much branched. 
5. Restio tetraphyllus (Lab. Nov. Holl. ii. 77. t. 226 and 227) ; culmis robustis elatis teretibus 
striatis superne fastigiatim ramosis, ramis subcompressis, ramulis sterilibus alternatim fasciculatis dichotomis 
subsetaceis, vaginis strictis obtusis, panicula terminali elongata composita, spiculis pedunculatis late ovatis, 
