ERIOCAULE® (Brown). 59 
Ill. PAXPALANTHUS, Mart. 
als 2-3, free, or rarely more or = pee Petals 2-3; those 
of the temale flowers free, or connate a middle or upper part, 
with free claws ; those of the male pe ae nto a campanulate 
or funnel- shaped tube, subtruncate or agin (rarely deeply) bifid or 
trifid at the apex. Stamens 2 or 3, of the same number as the petals 
and opposite to them, free or adhering to tie corolla-tube. Ovary 
2-3-celled ; style divided above into 2 3, simple or bifid, filiform 
stigmatose " branches, with 2-3 other branches : appendages alter- 
nating with them, or arising from the style below 
rsh, bog, aquatic, or terrestrial perennial or annual bane stemless, or with 
ia or branched leat y stones oO linear or subulat sete sually one- 
eaded, rarely several- tien de, in W species shorter dieh, ‘the leaves; floweri ng- 
bracts ‘lets or obovate, flattis “e or concave. Other characters as ‘he ‘dis Order. 
Distris. Species wiskewdee pend hoe 300, of éhtear 3-4 are Tropical and South 
African, the rest Tropical Ameri 
oS 
7 Wahlbergii (Kornicke in Fl. Bras. iii. pt. i. 459) ; leaves 
- lin. long, 2 lin. thick at the base, subulate, very ce flat on the 
face, convex on the back, glabrous, in dense tufted rosettes }—1 in. 
diam. : scapes several to a plant, 21~7 in. joe filiform, trigonous, 
often Scataadel in the dried state, glabrous ; basal sheath 4—9 lin. long, 
oblique, with a short acute point ‘at the apex, glabrous ; flower-heads 
2-22) lin. in diam. peel tae cab moncecious, the sexes intermingled 
outer involueral bracts about 2 ong, the inner 1-1} ong, +— 
lin. broad, oblong or BR pe obtuse or itasatn. ee boars 
or fuscous ; ; floral bracts none ; receptacle convex, villous; flowers of 
both sexes with pedicels + lin. long wit long airs on their basal 
part ; sepals of both sexes ‘subsimilar, free, 3 lin. long, enlarging in 
fruit, laneeolate, boat-shaped, acute, keeled, clabrous, “ciliate on the 
connate above into a short tube, erenulate or shortly 3-lobed at the 
‘apex, rather more than 2 lin. long, hairy outside, white, without glands; 
| Ovary triquetrous, glabrous : style with 6 filiform branches, three.6 
them ending in globose knobs ; corolla of male fiower a minute 
—— haped tube, irregular at the mouth ; stamens 2-3, anthers 
__ Katanarr Reecron: Transvaal ; Magalies Berg, southern slopes, Zeyher, 1730! 
tok, 74! in a bog near the Nylstroom River, Nelson, 294! 
OrpEr CXLIX. RESTIACEZ. 
(By M. T, Masters.) 
q Flowers dicecious, unisexual. Perianth superior, glumaceous, 
_ hexamerous, in two rows ; segments all similar, or the outer three 
_ different from the inner, outer Fate segments generally eondupli- 
