148 RESTIACEZ (Masters). [ Ceratocaryum. 
inflorescence terminal, 2-21 in. long, densely paniculate-cymose, 
oblong, erect, nearly covered by the coriaceous, deep-brown, oblong, 
acute spathes; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, twisted, 2 nerved, 
membranous, whitish; flower siting stipit itate ; ; perianth- seaments 
lanceolate, acuminate ; inner short anthers linear-oblong ; “female 
inflorescence _ matin, linest-oblongs wile e, 2-4 in. long, pluri- 
than the bracts; perianth sitanbh, at rh rows ; segments all sub- 
orbicular, acute; ovary globose; fruit bony, subglobose, smooth, 
ind chiscent, l-celled, 1-seeded; styles 2. Steud. Synops. ii. 264; 
ast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 273, and in DC. Monog. Phan. i. 390. 
Restio (Bley) argenteus, herb. Willd. fide Nees in Linnea, V. 
656, not cea unberg. Ceratocaryum speciosum, Nees in various 
her bari th 
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XIII. ANTHOCHORTUS, Nees. 
Male spikelets in terminal cymes 1-3 ft. long. Perianth of male 
flower stipitate; segments oblo ong ; outer lateral condupliecate, acutely 
keeled ; ahaa smaller. Filaments free ; anthers linear, Pistillodiwm 
none. 
nus adopted by Kunth and others, 
pr are ably referable to Hypolzna, 
perhaps W. striata, Thunb, 
but very imperfectly known and 
ma. Bentham suggests that it may be a Willdenovi4, 
Aish: sda onii (Nees i in Lindl. Syst. ed. 2, 451); stems filiform, 
slender, curved, four-angled, branched ; leaf-sheath about: 2 2fin. long, 
mien. elliptic, acute, membranous ; male spikelets in *Slongated 
