RESTIO. RESTIACEÆ (AUCTORE MASTERS). 273 
mill. long. cuneato-obovatæ compressæ, pedicello lanuginoso erecto ` 
vel arcuato impositæ, basique spathâ æquilonga oblonga obtusa subu- 
lato-acuminata suffultæ. Bracteæ oblongæ mucronatæ intime fere 
muticæ capsulam obvolventes. Perianthium ut videtur nullum. Sta- 
minodia desunt. Ovarium uniloculare stylo simplici superatum. Cap- 
sula oblique ovata coriacea glabra, apice styli vestigiis coronata, 
latere dehiscens. si 
In Australia austro-occidentali ad King George’s Sound (R. Brown, 
Oldfield, F. Müell. Q), Swan River (Preiss, 1694, 1716, 5^; Drum- 
mond, 340. Phillips et Gardner River (Maxwell). 
SECTIO II. — TRICARPLE. 
Styli seu rami stigmatici 3 ad basin liberi. Staminodia liguliformia 
raro nulla. Pistillodium 3-stylum. : 
A. Species Capenses. 
x, Spiculæ femine: plerumque plurifloræ. Spp. 60-89. 
1° Inflorescentia mascula et feminea plerumque pluristachya pancu- 
latim cymosa. 
* Culmi valde tetragoni. 
M 60. R. tetragonus (Thunb. Prodr., p.15); culmo year 
T ; 
hunb. Diss., p. 17, n. 17; Fl. Capens., p. 87, n 20; Willd. Sp. 
Pl. IV, 2, p. 725, n* 21; Nees in Linnea 5, p. 642; Kunth 
Enum. 3, p. 401; Steud. Synops., 2, p. 253, Mast. in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. 8, p. 245. 
% Culmi dimorphi, alii aphylli alii foliis praediti. Culmi aphylli, bi- 
trippedales et ultra erecti tetragoni, crassitie pennæ anserinæ, re- 
mote vaginati, parce dichotome ramosi, ramique  erecto-patentes 
Der sr ancipites punctulis nigris obsiti. Vaginæ culmeæ 
2-3 cent. arcte tubulatæ coriaceæ fuscæ nervoso-striatæ, sub: 
apice membranaceo concolori acuto, subulato-mucronatæ, mucrone 
appresso. Culmi seu rami foliosi minores conformes supra medium 
ramosi; rami versus apicem iterum iterumque dichotome seu 
subfasciculatim  ramulosi; ramulis filiformibus arcuato-patentibus. 
Vaginæ ramulales 5-8 mill., sub apice profunde hyalino membranaceo, 
foliaceo-mucronatæ, mucrone arcuato-reflexo, purpureo-maculato. 
Spiculæ masculæ cc in cymam paniculatam linearem terminalem 4-8 
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