Restio.] CLI. RESTIACE^. 1723 



2. R. dimorphus (2-formed), 7?. Br. PwtL 216; Benth. Fl. Avstr. vii. 224. 

 Rhizome creeping, but the woolly hairs not abundant. Stems slender, 1 to 2ft. 

 long, divided into weak branches all doriferous, often from near the base. 

 Sheathing scales rather broad, loose and open almost from the base, spreading 

 upwards obtuse and glabrous ; floral bracts shorter than the spikelets. Male 

 spikelets numerous, ovate, sessile or nearly so within the bract, distant along the 

 branches or terminal, about 2 lines long. Glumes obovate or oblong, acuminate 

 ■with a rather short point, not at all or scarcely ciliate, several outer ones empty. 

 Perianth-segments 6. Filament shortly callous at the base but no rudiment of 

 the ovary. Female plant : Spikelets fewer and more distant, all sessile and 

 1-flowered but with several empty glumes, inner glumes acuminate, IJ line 

 long, with rather long points. Perianth segments 5 (or 6 ?), oblong, obtuse, 

 nearly equal. Ovary 2-celled, or according to Brown 3-celled. Styles united at 

 the base. Capsule hard, broad, opening at the sides and frequently 1-oelled by 

 abortion and then very oblique. — F. v. M. Fragm. viii. 68. 



Hab.: Islands of Moreton Bay. 



3. It. gracilis (slender), II. Br. Prod. 245 ; Benth. Fl. Amtr. vii. 227. 

 Stems slender, the sheathing scales closely appressed and the numerous small 

 spikelets forming an interrupted more or less compound spike or narrow panicle 

 of 2 to 4in. Floral bracts acuminate with a fine point. Male spikelets rather 

 broad, varying from 2| to 3J lines long, nearly sessile or almost all on pedicels 

 as long as or longer than the bracts. Perianth-segments 6, the 2 outer ones 

 complicate. Female spikelets longer and more sessile, very narrow in some 

 specimens, broader in others. Flowers 2-merous, no staminodia. — F. v. M. 

 Fragm. viii. 69 ; Fl. pallens, R. Br. Prod. 245. 



Hab.: Moreton Island, F. v. Mueller ; Brisbane, Prentice ; and towards the Tweed and 

 Wallangarra. 



4. B,, complanatus (compressed), Ft. Br, Prod. 245 ; Benth. Fl. Amtr. 

 vii. 228. Rhizome short and thick with little or no wool. Stems densely tufted, 

 erect, simple, much flattened. Sheathing scales appressed, obtuse, rather thin, 

 J to fin. long. Male spikelets rather numerous, in a narrow panicle, on filiform, 

 pedicels, narrow-ovate, scarcely 3 lines long. Glumes shortly acuminate, slightly 

 ciliate, the midrib produced into a fine point, one or two outer ones short and 

 empty. Perianth often shortly stipitate within the glume, segments 4, narrow. 

 Stamens 2. Female spikelets usually fewer and narrower than the males and 

 sometimes longer, the glumes rather distant. Ovary sessile, 2-merous. Capsule 

 scarcely dehiscent,— Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 71 ; F. v. M. Fragm. viii. 67. 



Hab. : Common in the southern coastal swamps. 



It. tetraphyllus (4-leaved), Labill. PI. Nov. Holl. ii. 77, t. 226, 227 ; Benth. 

 Fl. Atistr. vii. 228. Rhizome thick, densely woolly-hairy under the short broad 

 scales. Stems erect, 2 or 3ft. high, usually bearing filiform dichotomous 

 branches, either short and dense or longer and loose, clustered within the erect 

 appressed sheathing scales. . Spikelets in both sexes usually rather numerous, 

 pedicellate in a narrow loose panicle. Male spikelets from narrow-ovate to nearly 

 globular, 2 to 3*lines long. Glumes acuminate, with short fine points. Perianth- 

 segments 6, 2 outer rather broad and complicate, the third narrow, 3 inner flat 

 and hyaline, 1 broad and 2 narrow. Female spikelets usually longer and 

 narrower, the glumes more acuminate. Perianth-segments 4, 2 outer ones 

 complicate and lanceolate, 2 inner broader and flat, but with the margins folded 

 in. Capsule small, flat, not usually opening at the margins but the thin sides 

 bursting irregularly.— R. Br. Prod. 247 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 71 ; F. v. M. 

 Fragm. viii. 66. 



Hab.: Brisbane Eiver, Leichhardt, Bailey; Wide Bay, Sheridan; Kookhampton, Thozet; 

 and further north. 



