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Male 2 ny L | | | M1 ; 
anthers l-celled. Fertare 1. dia 
3 or none. Ovary 1-celled, triquetrous ; Styies o, -- ity, 
pendulous. Fruit narrow- ovoid, triquetrous, indehiscent or splitting uvwn 
the angles, 
Bpeeles about 25, one in New Zealand, one in Chile, another in Cochin-China, 7 in 
South Africa, the remainder confined to Australia. 
l. L, simplex A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. (1832) 142 (not of R. Br.).— 
Rhizome stout, creeping, elothed with chestnut-brown scales. Stems 
numerous, densely crowded, simple, slender, terete, rush-like, 1-5 ft. high. 
Sheaths closely appressed, ‘blackish- brown, distant, 14-4 in. apart. Male 
inflorescence panicled; panicles variable in size, sometimes long and slender, 
at other times short and contracted, alternate on the upper part of the 
stem. Spikelets numerous, sessile or pedicelled, red-brown, }-4 in. long, 
many-flowered. Glumes imbricate, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate much 
longer than the flowers. Perianth-segments 4-6, lanceolate, the 3 inner 
rather smaller. Female inflorescence compacted into rounded or oblong 
often lobed or interrupted fascicles or glomerules, alternate along the 
stem, Glumes broadly ovate, acuminate. Perianth rather longer than 
in the males; segments 6, the 3 outer keeled, acuminate ; the 3 inner flat, 
oblong, obtuse or mucronate. Fruit narrow-ovoid, triquetrous.—A. Cunn. 
Precur. (1836) n, 291; Raoul Choiz (1846) 40; Hook. f. Fl. Nov, Zel. 1 
(1853) 265, t. 61; Handb. N.Z, Fl. (1864) 294; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. FI. 
(1906) 761. Restio sumplex Murr. Syst. Veg. v (1744) 8825 Forst. f. Prodr. 
(1786) n. 367. oe a -- 7a 7.24) 
NortH anD Sourn Istanps, Stewart IsuaAnp, CHATHAM IsnaNDs: Salt marshes 
and sandy shores, abundant. Also inland near hot springs at Rotorua and at 
Tokaanu (Lake Taupo). Oior, Septem ber-December. 
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Stems slender, much branched, often flexuous. Leaves reduced to 
persistent sheathing scales. Flowers dioecious, in spikelets with imbricate 
glumes and no bracteoles; the male spikelets few- or many-flowered, 
rarely 1-flowered, solitary or 2 together along the branchlets, or several in 
a terminal panicle ; the females 1-flowered, either solitary or 2-3 together 
near the tips of the branches. Male flowers: Perianth-segments 6, narrow, 
thin. Stamens 3; filaments filiform; anthers l-celled. Female flowers: 
Perianth-segments 6, smaller than in the males, very thin, almost hyaline. 
Staminodia when present 3. Ovary 1-celled ; style-branches 2 or 3, filiform ; 
ovule solitary, pendulous. Fruit an ovoid or obovoid terete indehiscent 
1-seeded nut. 
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