116 RESTIACE® (Masters). [ Lamprocaulos, 
proceeding from the angles of the fruit; seed pendulous. Elegia 
Neesti, Mast. in. Journ. “Linn. Sve. x. 246.  Restio grandis, var. P, 
Nees din re vy. 661. 
Coa EGIoN: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Burchell, 569, ! Ecklon ! 
Bolus, gins 3 ! Cape Flats, Ecklon, 560b, 3 ! 
VI. LEPTOCARPUS, R. Brown. 
Male and female inflorescence similar. Spikelets 1- or many- 
flowered. Pertanth-seyments 6; outer lateral onulupliot usually 
villous on the keel, rarely glabrous. Stam 3. Pistillodium 
minute, 3-styled or absent. Female flower : " Btn inodes none ot 
minu Ovary more or less triangular, 1-celled, 1-ovuled; styles 3, 
fiee at the base or slightly united. Fruit 3-sided, coriaceous, 
indehiscent. 
Rush-like, much or sparingly branched plants, the basal portion thickly covered 
with brown avy fe — sheaths mucronate or aristate, sometimes foliaceous 0} 
the sterile branc 
DistrrB. Several species inhabit Tropical and South-west ga Isolated 
species occur in Tasmania, New Zealand, Chile, and Cochin Chi 
Female spikelets many-flowered : 
Ma > e and female ae otaba :e much-branched ; plant 
aty . (1) paniculatus. 
Male and female nlorieeees sparingly branched ; 
plont rarely le 
Spathes Bie iiiwllex shomead af oe 
Spikelets 7-9, sq ... (2) neglectus. 
Spike (3) Burchellii. 
Spathes Shout the same length as the spikelets : 
Leaf istate (4) incurvatus. 
ie Sete straight, “eds at the apex, : 
su ninlokecenchs nate (5) oxylepis. 
papacaioensie recurved, spreading, ‘obtuse, 
onate . (6) peronatus. 
Female laikitatia 1- lowered : 
Spikelets obtu ive es ted ... (7) modestus. 
/ 1, L, paniculatus (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 231); stems 
° 2-3 ft. high, erect, much-branched; branches compressed, olive 
numerous, 1 m peaeticd: epickiigl panicled “a a spikelet 
about + in. pee ohovate-oblony spathe bract-like ; bracts oblong, 
obtuse, hyaline near ate ape 
ovary oblong, triquetrous ; ; styles 3; fruit 3- -angled. 
pea a an. i : 330. Restio paniculatu, tretoodt Deser. et de. te 
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