72 FLORA OF TASMANIA. | Restiacee. 
squamis aristato-acuminatis, perianthiis masculis 6-glumis, foemincis 4-glumis, stylo 2-3-fido v. partito.— 
Br. Prodr. 247 ; Sieb. Agrost. 34. (Gunn, 331.) 
Has. Abundant throughout the Island, forming large tufts.—(Fl. Dec., Jan.) (v. v.) 
DisrarB. New South Wales and Victoria. 
At once recognized by its great size, 3-4 feet high, stout culms as thick at the base as a goose-quill, copious 
ramification, fasciculate, setaceous or filiform sterile branches, and long, compound panicles of broadly ovate, 
shining, peduncled amenta. 
Gen. II. LEPYRODIA, Br. 
Flores fasciculati, dioici v. hermaphroditi, 1-4-bracteati, exserti. Perianthium 6-glume, subzequale. 
Masc. Stamina 3; antheris peltatis, simplicibus. Pistillum 0 v. rudimentum. Fam. Ovarium trique- 
trum, 3-loculare. Styli 3, sessiles; capsula trilocularis, triloba, angulis salientibus dehiscens. Semina 
solitaria.—Herbz perennes; rhizomate repente; culmis simplicibus v. ramosis, vaginatis ; fasciculis florum 
simplicibus v. compositis. 
An extratropical Australian genus of about twelve species, distinguished from Restio chiefly by the bracteate 
flowers being fascicled and exserted, not sessile in the scales of the spikelet, and hidden by them. (Name per- 
haps from Aerpwdys, leprous ; in allusion to the surface of the eulms.) 
l. Lepyrodia Tasmanica (Hook. fil.) ; culmis gracilibus ramosis teretiusculis subtiliter granulatis, 
vaginis strictis lamina brevi subulata, fasciculis spiceformibus alternis bracteatis, bracteolis perianthii sub- 
membranaceis ovatis acuminatis flore brevioribus, perianthii glumis lanceolatis aristato-acuminatis exterio- 
ribus brevioribus. (Gunn, 960, 1393.) (Tas. CXXXV. B.) 
Has. Wet places in the northern parts of the Island: Detention River, near Circular Head, and Lake 
St. Clair, Gunn.—(Fl. Dec., Jan.) 
A very slender, branched, Rush-like plant, growing 1-5 feet high, the smaller states erect, the larger weak, 
and supporting themselves amongst bushes and herbage.—Culms, when dry, yellow-grey, and minutely granular on 
the surface, terete, the branches somewhat compressed. Sheaths appressed, 4-2 inch long, with subulate points. 
Flowers in alternate, spike-like, erect fascicles towards the ends of the branches, each fascicle shortly pedicelled, 
arising from the axil of a membranous braet, #3 inch long. Perianths pale-brown, shining, each with two to four 
short, sheathing, ovate-acuminate, membranous bracts at its base; outer glumes shorter than the inner, all lanceo- 
late-acuminate and subaristate.—PrATE CXXXV. B. Fig. 1, male flower; 2, stamen; 3, female flower and bracts ; 
4, pistil and imperfect stamens ; 5, ovary; 6, transverse section of ditto; 7, stigmatic surface :—all magnified. 
Gen. III. LEPTOCARPUS, Br. 
Flores dioici, fasciculati v. amentacei. Perianthium 4-6-glume. Masc. Stamina 3; antheris sim- 
plieibus, peltatis. Fam. Orarium l-ovulatum, stylo 2-3-partito.  Utriculus v. nur crustacea, basi styli 
coronata. Semen 1.—Herbe; rhizomate repente; culmis teretiusculis, simplicibus v. ramosis, vaginatis ; 
fasciculis v. spieis femineis sepius subspieatis ; amentis masculis sepius paniculatim ramosis. 
The great dissimilarity between the male and female plants of some species of this genus renders it very diffi- 
cult to arrive at any accurate determination of these from herbarium specimens, and I am not perfectly certain that 
the plants described under L. tenaz are sexes of the s 
; the male amenta form effuse, terminal panicles, and are ovate, or oblong 
» erect, and shortly peduncled. Flowers in both sexes hidden by 
sessile. Males of four erect glumes, rather distant at the base ; 
ments short. Females of six glumes, the two or three outer larger ; 
the closely imbricated scales of the amentum, 
stamens three, included; anthers simple; fila 
