62 | RESTIACEA (Masters). [ Restio. 
cymes, each spikelet with a sheath or x at the base; bracts in many rows, 
eee or ultimately patent, all, or only some, fertile. 
South-Western Africa approximately the same number in 
sath ‘Wester Australia; the seein etre in all cases different, 
Di Styles two, concrescent, rarely ie at the bas 
Biber tess te pistillodes absent from the female and male flowers suasiouktiety: 
* Female spikelets usually many-flowered : 
Leaf-sheaths loosely euncvaliite, Open or spread- 
ing at the tips: 
ale apikiboda usually in dense heads or 
clusters ; female spikelets few or clustered : 
Bracts ay not awned --» (1) paucifiorus. 
Bracts a 
Visets. siunc: lanceolate, acumi- 
nate ; awn spreading .. (2) cuspidatus. 
chore Lowe eg oblong, subulate. 
te ... (3) fraternus. 
Spade Retaas. aristate ; — 
oblo’ on Beas ate, aristate awn 
shor traight (4) ocreatus. 
Male Pets 39, in loose spikes or ‘panicles : 
s short, acuminate-aristate e; mu- 
3 geen if at all, projecting be- 
ond the bract -.. (5) ferruginosus. 
Synth geeget bracts shortly mucro- 
te; spike lets nearly half an inch 
long, awne (6) elatus. 
Spikelets — short, straight 5 3 ; spathes 
acuminate ; bra .. (7) gaudichaudianus. 
Male “ete 1-2, Hi mor 
Bra curved, ae open ; spikelets 
oblon g, seats (8) arcuatus. 
a nehes = strai verticillate ; male 
pikelets linia b +» (9) subverticillatus. 
uy Leatesheaths, € except at nny “rpibalbids 
osely convolute, appressed at the tips: 
Male spikelets sad or twin... .. (10) laniger. 
Male spikelets num 
ale spi 
ike lets subcapitate elon- 
te, stra (11) distractus. 
open “spikelet S panicled, “curved, 
3 Spathes aristate . (12) venustulus. 
Woolly ieosdes "hee projecti "s beyond the 
sheaths : 
Male spikelets 
Stem ps but ee filiform : 
Spathe and bracts Ml mal 
e 
flower with revel woadeesed (13) squarrosus. 
Spathe of female Spikelet_m 
cronate ; bracts acu anitente we (14) schenoides. 
Stem filiform 
Pedicel ide than eR (15) oblongus. 
Pedicel longer than pike- 
let; awn of Pe th long (16) crinalis. 
Male spikelets numerous, small, densely 
clustered; female spikelets 1- 2; 
bracts long awned ie . (17) setiger. 
sey spikelets numerous, loosel y spicate, 
or panicled ; female spikelets few ; 
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