136 CLX. ERiocAULACE^. [Eriocaulon. 
long, narrow. Scapes 2 to 3 in. tall, three-ribbed and twisted. 
Head very small with 7 or 8 lanceolate acute toothed involucral 
bracts longer than the flowers. Floral bracts lanceolate acuminate, 
toothed. Male flowers; sepals obcuneate, black with white pro¬ 
cesses. Petals 3, spathulate, black tipped. Seeds elliptic, yellow, 
obscurely dotted. Hab. Very rare. Near the quarry in grassy 
spots. Penang, Waterfall Gardens. Disirib. India and Africa. 
(7) E. disepalum Rtdl. 
Dwarf plant 4 to 6 ft. tall. Leaves linear-acuminate, 2-5 in. 
long, I-5 in. wide. Scapes 5 to 6 in. long, slender, ribbed, numerous. 
Heads *2 in. wide, glabrous. Involucral bracts white, spathulate, 
top round with a few minute teeth. Floral bracts spathulate, 
slightly fuscous at top. Male flowers; sepals 2, short, spathulate. 
Corolla-tube longer. Anthers black, 6. Female flower; sepals 
linear, 3. Petals o. Style long and slender. Seed yellow, ellipsoid, 
ribbed. Hab. Kelantan, rice-fields at Tumput, Kota Bharu 
(Ridley). 
Order CLXI. RESTlACEi^:. 
Herbs wiry with a woody rhizome covered with scales or wool. 
Culms simple or branched. Leaves (few radical cyperaceous) or 
reduced to sheaths, tubular. Inflorescence varied. The plants 
Separately male or female or the inflorescence bisexual. Flowers 
resembling those of Cyperacem, but with a perianth. Bracts stiff, 
brown. Perianth regular, 3 to 6 scarious lobes. Stamens in males 3, 
filaments filiform. Anthers oblong, i or 2 locular. Female flower; 
ovary i- to 3-celled. Styles as many, filiform. Ovules solitary. 
Fruit dry, compressed or triquetrous, i- to 3-seeded. Species 230. 
Chiefly African and Australian, i in Chili, i Cochinchina. 
1 . LEPTOCARPUS, Br. 
Leaves reduced to sheaths. Heads many-flowered, or in female 
rarely one-flowered, panicled, spiked or capitate. Fruit usually 
3-angled. Species 22, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Chili, 
Cochinchina. 
(t) L. disjunctus Masi. Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 344. 
Rhizome stout, woody, densely woolly. Culms stiff, 2 ft. tall 
or more, -i in. through, sheaths -5 in. long, convolute acuminate, 
chestnut red. Spikelcts fascicled in a short branched panicle 
4 to 6 in. long. Fascicles -i in. long, outer bracts lanceolate, 
coriaceous, red, w-ith an awn. Spikelets i-flowered, upper male, 
lower female or all male. Bracts and 2 bracteoles coriaceous 
lanceolate, red. Perianth of 6 lobes, outer ones oblong acute, 
inner ones 2 or 3 smaller. Stamens in male 3 ; filaments slender; 
anthers ellipsoid apiculate, i-celled. Ovary in female triquetrous. 
Style short. Stigmas 3. linear. Fruit indehiscent, i-seeded. Hab. 
Marshy ground, rare. Tringganu, Kresag (A. Vesterdal). Disirib, 
Singora and Cochinchina. 
