60 RESTIACER (Masters). 
cate, more or less keeled, intermediate anterior segment flat, inner 
segments usually free, sometimes concrescent at the base. Stamens 
3, opposite to the inner perianth-segments ; filaments very slender ; 
terior and one of the lateral cells become obsolete ; styles 1-2-3 free at 
the base, or more or less united, linear, with stigmatic plumose surface 
on the inner side. Ovule solitary, pendulous “from the u upper angle 
of each cell. Fruit capsular, 2~3-celled, or by abortion 1-eelled, 
dehiscing by a longitudinal cleft in each cell, or nutlike, indehiscent, 
l-celled. Seed solitary, pendulous; testa hard or membranous, 
smooth, or marked with ridges and tubercles ; perisperm abundant, 
fleshy or floury. Ae bryo antitropous, lenticula ar, in a cavit 
opposite the hilum ; micropyle and radicle inferior. 
Perennial, send annual, rush- or sedge-like herbs, with tufted or creeping root- 
stock densely covered with coriaceous sheat increasing in size upwards; stems 
erect, or putalakts: solid or eis lar with, or rarely without, leaf-sheaths, simple or 
anched ; ee the m imes pro- 
longed at the apex py a indies straight or curved leaf; oe simple, or 
generally cymose, much or little branched, haw in Piatt exes, or different in the 
female ; spikelets solitary or generally numerous, each with a 8 eath- 
like spathe at the a — similar pal at the: base of the branches in the 
erg inflorescen acts overlapping or oe spreading, all ee hae uF 
some barren, per Sakae than the flower. The flowers are wind-fertilized. 
8 
is native S Svc countries. Two species have bee trae in Natal, ing ee 
without flowers have been received from Sir H. Johnston from BMlanji, in 8. E 
pata val pe tg anak they were obtained at a height of 7000 ft 
The diccious character of these aan hoor the ho that the Penge of the 
individuals of one sex often differs rably from that of the other, Soe? 
iseri iff 
t peer in come cases 
in matching the sexes. In many instances, moreover, bing on 
is kno 
the material is insufficient meet an adequate descriptio The ‘artificial keys 40 
the genera, and especially to the species, ough the ative be considered as more 0 — 
i means to be reli ; 
ess aoe: “The descri : 
leaf- pers are grins from those in the middle of the stem or branches, not 
base 0: r apex, unless pingeriacaes stated. In the same way the bracts | 
ral 
beac ibe frown the m 
Ia ted to che courtesy of Dr. W. Brehmer, of Lubeck, for the rie 
pa ec the entire set of Drage’s — which were lent to Kew for 
of making this work more complete. 
Tribe 1. RESTIOIDEH. Ovary 3-, 2-, or by abortion 1.celled, Fruit 
dehiscent 
= 
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