284 RESTIACEAE. [Lepyrodia, 
stigmatic on the inner side; ovules solitary in each cell, pendulous, ortho- 
tropous. Fruit either a 1-3-celled capsule with longitudinal dehiscence or 
an indehiscent nut. Seeds 1 in each cell, pendulous, albumen farinaceous ; 
embryo small, remote from the hilum. 
A small order of about 20 genera and 230 species, almost confined to South Africa 
and Australia, the only species found outside these countries being the three occurring 
in New Zealand, one in Chile, and one in Cochin-China. The species have no important 
uses or properties. 
Spikelets many - flowered, panicled. Ovary 3-celled. Fruit 
3-angled, dehiscing at the angles .. + ‘+ .. 1. Lepyropra. 
Spikelets many - flowered, panicied. Ovary l1-celled. Nut 
o-angied, indehiscent te x! ay by .. 2. LEPTOCARPUS. 
Spikelets few-flowered, female 1]-flowered. Ovary l-celled. Nut 
ovoid, terete, smooth 
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i .% 7 7 . HYPOLAENA. 
Seek AD ANTHUS F-Muels e+. en. 
_ & +18 Fy* 340 
= —) Trae 
j1. LEPYRODIA R. Br. t@!0 _} 4 10: «bp os 
Rhizome stout, creepmg, scaly. Stems erect, simple or branched, 
terete. Leaves reduced to persistent or rarely deciduous sheathing scales. 
Flowers dioecious or monoecious, rarely hermaphrodite, in rather broad 
or narrow panicles, sometimes almost spicate, the inflorescence not con- 
spicuously different in the two sexes. Glumes lanceolate, scarcely imbricate ; 
bracteoles 2 at the base of each flower. Male flowers: Perianth-segments 
6, glume-like or thin and almost hyaline. Stamens 3; filaments distinct ; 
anthers 1-celled. Female flowers: Perianth as in the males. Staminodia 
3, sometimes with abortive anthers. Ovary 3-angled, 3-celled ; styles 3, 
free or connate at the base; ovules 1 in each cell. Capsule triquetrous, 
dehiscing at the angles. 
1. L. Traversii #. Muell. Pragm. vii (1873) 79.—Rhizome stout, creeping, 
clothed with pale-chestnut scales ; roots long, stringy. Stems stout, terete, 
polished, simple below, fastigiately branched above, 2-5 ft. high. Sheaths 
distant, closely appressed, acuminate, #-l in. long. Inflorescence a rather 
narrow closely branched red-brown terminal panicle 2-5 in. long; branches 
erect, unequal; bracts under the branches rigid, lanceolate, acuminate. 
Flowers sessile or shortly pedicelled within lanceolate glumes rather longer 
than the perianth; 2 scarious bracteoles at the base of each flower. 
Perianth-segments in both sexes red-brown, lanceolate, acute; male 
flowers with a small rudimentary ovary, females with 3 slender staminodia. 
Anthers linear-oblong, minutely apiculate. Ripe fruit 1-celled, 1-seeded, 
obliquely ovoid, ‘triquetrous with the angles thickened, tipped with the 
remains of the style, at length dehiscent along the angles.—Cheesem. Man. 
N.Z, Fl. (1906) 760; Ill. N.Z. Fl. ii (1914) t. 208. Calorophus sp. Hook. f- 
Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 267. Sporadanthus Traversii F. Muell. in Trqns. N. , 
Inst. var (1875) 389; TL. Kirk ibid. x (1878) App. 41. 
pve 340- Se T41nus 6 rIQre -@o 
Nortu Istanp: Auckland — Peat swamps near the outlet of Lake Tongonge, 
near Kaitaia, Rk. H, Matthews! H.Carse! swamps between Hamilton and Ohaupo, 
T. F.C., R. Calhoun ! Cuataam Isuanps: Abundant in peat bogs, Dieffenbach, H. H. 
Travers ! Cockayne / November. 
A very remarkable species. If differs from Lepyrodia in the 1-celled and 1-seeded 
fruit, and was consequently erected into a separate genus (Sporadanthus) by F. Mueller. 
In the “Genera Plantarum” Hooker and Bentham reduced Sroradanthus to Lepyrodia, 
suggesting that the ovary is 1-celled by abortion. But in young buds I can find no 
trace of the ovary being 3-celled, or of there being more than one ovule. TI think that 
ultimately Mueller’s view will be substantiated. 
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