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1. W. flexuosa; culmis glabris vel parce villosis fasciculatim 
ramosis,ramis elongatis cincinnato-curvatis ; perianthii masculi seg- 
mentis erat" oblongis ; perianthio femineo. nullo ; — Restio flexuosus 
. 247; Calorophus flexuosus, Nees in PI. Preiss. 2, 
68; cin "eu. 2, p. 265. Loxocarya flexuosa Benth. Fl. Austral. 
7 ined 
2% Rhizoma lanuginosum. Culmi 40-50 cent. alti erecti teretes 
crassitie pennæ columbinæ glabri vel parce villosi olivacei obsolete 
suleato-striati versus medium ad nodos fasciculatim ramulosi ramis 
ramulisque curvatis compressis. Vaginæ culmeæ 15 mill. arcte tu- 
bulatæ coriaceæ striatæ oblongæ demum laceratæ vel truncatæ. Va- 
gin: rameales minores conformes nisi ad ramificationes arctæ apice 
subulato-mueronatze mucrone curvato. Spiculæ masculæ in axillas 
vaginarum dissitarum sessiles, singulæ 3 mill. longc, oblonga, 2-3- 
bracteatæ. Bracteæ parvæ subulato-mucronatæ quam flores breviores. 
Perianthium hexamerum. Segmenta lineari-oblonga acuta; externa 
lateralia naviculari-conduplicata glabra; tertium intermedium planius- 
culum; interna 3 conformia paulo minora tenuioraque. Filamenta 
9 exserta albida. Antheræ lineari-oblongæ apiculatæ. Spiculæ 
femineæ paucæ 4-5 mill. long. Bracteæ infimæ minores aristatæ 
reliquæ acutæ vel obtusæ convolutæ, intima ovarium eircumvolvente. 
Perianthium et staminodia desunt. Stylus indivisus. Fructus apice 
incrassatus (Descr. flor. fem. a me non visæ. ex cl. Benth. mss.). 
In Australia Austro-occidentali,ad King Georges Sound (R. Brown, g 
Cunningham) ; ad Swan River (Drummond, 96,840 |, Preiss, 1717 
proparte, 1718), (Oldfield), Dirk Hartog island (Milne). ^" —— — —-— 
8. Perianthium femineum 6-merum. 
ve 2. Hi. pubescens ; culmis fistulosis villosis asperulis fasciculatim 
ramulosis, ramulis brevibus curvatis; vaginis foliaceo-mucronatis; pe- 
rianthii maseuli segmentis late oblongis muticis alato-carinatis. — 
Restio pubescens. R. Br. Prod. p. 247. Hypolæna pubescens Nees in 
Plant. Preiss. 2, p. 69 ex parte. Loxocarya pubescens Benth. in FI. 
Austral. 7-ined. 
% Culmi erecti fistulosi teretes crassitie pennæ corvinæ villosi, 
villis. delapsis asperuli Mende m suleato-striati remote vagi- 
nati. subfasciculatim ramosi. Rami erecto-patentes filiformes iterum 
fasciculatim. furcillatimque ess d ramulis curvatis villosulis. Va- 
ginæ culmeæ 2 cent. et ultra long. arcte convolutæ coriaceæ longius- 
cule foliaceo-mucronatæ. Folia recurva mucronata petiolo seu vaginà 
destituta, spiculæ masculæ oc in cymam paniculiformem terminalem 
