396 HISTOIRE DES PLANTES. 
in spicas androgynas v. 1-sexuales dispositi; perianthii foliolis 6: 
lateralibus complicatis. Stamina 3, 4, libera (in flore fœmineo ad 
Slaminodia minuta reducta v. 0); antherarum loculis distinctis paral- 
lelis, basi apiceque discretis, obtusis rimosis. Germen (in flore masculo 
rudimentarium) 2-loculare ; stylis 2, elongato-filiformibus, fere a basi 
papillosis. Ovula atropa 2. Fructus...? — Herbæ perennes ; rhizomate 
repenté Squamoso; ramis aeriis erectis simplicibus, basi squamis 
imbricatis nitidis obtectis; intima in vaginam Cylindraceam sæpe pro- 
ducta; folii vagina 1, appressa distante persistente ; spica terminali 
simplici oblongo-ovoidea erecta! ; bracteis œ, arcte imbricatis florem- 
que axillarem solitarium obtegentibus; infimis paucis vacuis mino- 
ribus. (Australia austro-occid?) 
Fera Lon 
1. pironiæ. In ti quoq 2. Spec. 1. ÆE. monostachya F. MUELL. — 
illam Chorizandrarum (Cyperacearum) referens.  BENTH., FI. austral., VII, 211. 
