256 MONOCOTYLEDONEÆ. RESTIO. 
mibus erecto-patentibus. Vaginæ culmeæ arctæ 2-3 cent. long. co- 
riaceæ, superne obtusiusculæ vix limbatæ longitudinaliter striolatæ, 
quandoque squamam lanigeram alteram obvolventes. Spiculæ mascu- 
læ nec non femineæ in cymas terminales paniculiformes diffusas erec- 
tas dispositae. Spiculæ masculæ 5-6 mill. long. ovoideæ-erectæ pluri- 
floræ. Bracteæ late ovatae concavæ pallide ferrugineæ subulato-acumi- 
natæ flores oblongos vix superantes. Perianthii masc. 2 mill. long. 
segmenta sex ferruginea glabra ; lateralia externa naviculari-condupli- 
cata apiculata glabra anguste carinata; intermedium oblongum acutum 
1- nerve planiusculum ; interna 3 oblongo-lanceolata minora tenuiora. 
l'ilamenta capillaria. Antheræ lineari-ovoideæ apiculatæ exsertæ. Pis- 
tillodium nullum. Spiculæ femineæ ovoideæ vel subglobosæ plurifloræ. 
Bracteæ ut in mare. Perianthii feminei segmenta 4 decussata ; externa 
lateralia oblonga naviculari-conduplicata glabra anguste carinata; 
interna paulo latiora planiuscula superne utroque margine involuta. 
Staminodia 2 filiformia quandoque nulla. Ovarium? Fructus turbinatus 
sub-bilobus, lobis medio, nec ad latera, rimà longitudinali quasi irre- 
gulariter dehiscentibus, quandoque indehiscentibus. Styli duo per- 
sistentes recurvati. | 
Staturà, formäque spicularum magis minusve subglobosarum nec 
non ni fallor numero partium perianthii feminei variat, Fructus irregu- 
lariter dehiscens vel diu clausus. Nomen speciei forsan ob perianthium 
femineum sepissime 4-merum donatum, ideoque, non obstante senten- 
tià præclari F. Mueller haud inaptum videtur. In spiculis vetustiori- 
bus, presertim femineis bracteæ floresque tandem delabunt axin nu- 
dum spiculæ relinquentes. 
In Australia tropicá orientali ad Brisbane River (Leichhardt) Wide 
Bay (Sheridan). In Australia orientali ad Port Jackson (Labillardiére, 
R. Brown, Carey, C. Moore) (j; (Sieber, n. 34 4 et Q), (Allan Cun- 
ningham, J. Banks ©), Clarence and Hastings River (Bechler £’), 
Wilcox, New England (C. Stuart Q et Verreaux 133 jj. In Aus- 
tralia felici Victoria ad Portland, (Allit), Gipps Land, (F. Muell.) 9. In 
ins. Tasmaniæ (Labillardière, Huon River R. Br. J. D. Hooker d; 
Gunn 331, Recherche Bay Oldfield 137; A. Cunningham 144) Q. 
36. R. complanatus (R. Br. Prodr. 245): ainis cæspitosis 
complanatis sulcatis ; vaginis infimis tubulatis nec fissis foliaceis li- 
gulà præditis ; eymis paniculiformibus terminalibus ; floribus dimeris ; 
staminodiis 2. — Kunth Enum. 3, p. 416; Nees in Plant. Preiss. 2 
p. 47; Steud Synops. 2, p. 255; Hook. fil. Fl. Tasman 2, p. 71 ; F. Muell. 
Fragment. 8, p. 67 ; Benth. Fl. Austral. 7 ined. 
X Radices simplices fibrosi e basi rhizomatis contracti instar gra- 
