2, LEPTOCARPUS R. Br. } 310 P.92. 
Stems simple or branched, terete, erect from a stout creeping scaly 
rhizome. Leaves reduced to persistent sheathing scales. Flowers dioecious, 
the spikelets with imbricate glumes with or without bracteoles, the male 
and female inflorescences alike or dissimilar, sometimes both sexes have 
the spikelets arranged in panicles, sometimes the male spikelets are 
pedicelled and paniculate, and the females sessile and fascicled or spicate. 
Male flowers: Perianth-segments 6. Stamens 3; filaments filiform ;. 
anthers l-celled. Female flowers: Perianth as in the males. Staminodia 
3 or none. Ovary 1-celled, triquetrous ; styles 3, filiform; ovule solitary, 
pendulous. Fruit narrow-ovoid, triquetrous, indehiscent or splitting down 
the angles. 
Species about 25, one in New Zealand, one in Chile, another in Cochin-China, 7 in 
South Africa, the remainder confined to Australia. 
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1. L. simplex A. Rik Fl. Nouv. Zel. (1832) 142 (not of R. Br.).— 
Rhizome stout, creeping, clothed with chestnut-brown scales. Stems 
numerous, densely crowded, simple, slender, terete, rush-like, 1-5 ft. high. 
Sheaths closely appressed, blackish-brown, distant, 1}-4in. 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 im. long, 
many-flowered. Glumes imbricate, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, much 
longer than the flowers. Perianth-segments 4-6, lanceolate, the 3 mner 
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 imner fiat, 
oblong, obtuse or mucronate. Fruit narrow-ovoid, triquetrous.—dA. Cunn. 
Precur. (1836) n. 291; Raoul Choiw (1846) 40; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 
(1853) 265, t. 61; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 294; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. | 
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(1906) 761. Restio simplex Murr. Syst. Veg. v (1744) 882; Forst. f. Prodr. 
(1786) n. 367. - A -+s WES » 24) 
Norte anp Sovuru Istanps, Stewart Istanp, CHATHAM Isnanps: Salt marshes 
and sandy shores, abundant. Also inland near hot springs at Rotorua and at | 
Tokaanu (Lake Taupo). Oi01, Septem ber—December. 
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Stems slender, much branched, often fiexuous. Leaves reduced to 
persistent sheathing scales. Flowers dioecious, in spikelets with imbricate 
elumes 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. | 
A genus consisting of about 25 species natives of South Africa, and 5 found in 
Australia, one of the latter extending to New Zealand. Lut 
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