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Ordo CCLXIY. RESTIACEAE II Br.

(Eiidl. Gener. piant, p. 120. Suppi. II. p. 10. — Melsn, Gener, piant, vascul. 1. 408. H.

312. — Kntli. Enumer. pl. omn. 1(1, 381. (!GG.)

I. DK8MOCLAD18 N. ah Eh.

(N. ab E. in Lehm. Piant. Preiss. II. p. 50.)

8piculae diclincs. Maacnlae bt — triflorae, squamis membranaceis,exterioribus majoribus mucronatis, interioribus perianthii foliolis simili-bus* Perianthii foliola 5 lanceolata mucronata mollia carinata subaequa-lia* Stamina tria distincta. Antherae unilocellatae peltatae mucronatae*Foemineae distichae, squamis paucis coriaceis, terminali minore pistillumamplectente. Perianthii loco squama brevis rotundata a latere exterioripistillum amplectens (hypogynium). Rudimenta staminum nulla. Stylusfiliformis cum apice inflato bulbiformi ovarii confluens, basi incrassata;stigma simplex villoso-peniciliatum. Ovarium (semimaturum) apice in-flato-rostratum uniovulatum compressulum, altero latere magis gibboso.Fructus maturus ignotus.

1. D. BUUNONIANUS N. ab E. I. c. — Culmis teretibus, vaginis ore barbatis; ramisalternatlm fasciculatis simplicissimis strictis, sterilibus subulatis, fertilibus monosta*chyls; amentis ovalibus paucifloris. — Restio fasciculatus K. Br. Prodr. 274. — Knth.Enum. IU. 409. no. 80.? — Crescit in depressis arenosis ad fluvium Cygnorum et inarenosis ad portum Pincess-Royal-Harbour in Australnsia.

II. RESTIO Knth.

(Knth. Enumer. III. 3S2.)

1. # U. VAGINATUS Thnbrg. — Knth. 1. c. 408. no. 42. — Hoehstctt. Flora (B. Z.)XXVIII. 337. — II. psmdoleptocarpus Knth, 1. c. 3i)9. no. 28.

2. MI. ELONGATUS Thnbrg. — Knth. 1. c. 408. no. 43. — Hochstett. 1. c, 337. adn.— R. caltistackyus Knth. 1. c. 400. no. 29.

3. K. EGREGIUS Hochstett. I. c. 337. adn. — Culmus elatus validus teres v. sub-compressus ramosus olivaceus laevis, vaginae arctae pollicares v. paullo longioressubacutae brunneae, rami subcomprcssi elongati erecti; inflorescentia plantae mas-culae subdichotoma terminalis, spicae in ramis compressissimis alternatim sessilesovatae semipoilicares compressiusculae dilute castaneae nitidae multiflorae, e squamisovato-lanceolatis convexis tenuiter multinerviis in mucronem validum acuminatis com-positae, flosculus squama sua paullo brevior, sepala exteriora chartaceo-membranacea,duo lateralia naviculari-carinata, carina glabrata, tertium planum, tria interiora paullobreviora hyalina, stamina 3, antheris inermibus ; plantae foemineae inflorescentia spi'cata, apiculae 2 — 3 alternae, pollicares erectae ovatae, squamae ovatae valide ari*stato-mucronatae brunneo-subcastaneae striatae, perianthium hcxasepalum semipolH'care persistens, sepala rigide chartacea dilute spudicea nitentia, extima duo lateraliacarinata tertlumque planum, plurinervia, tria Interiora paullo breviora subenervia,stylus 3-partitus, stigmata villosa, capsula 2-locuIaris. — Affinis II. compresso et spi-nutoso. — Crescit in Promontorio bonae spei.

4. U. TENELLUS N. ab E. in Lehm. Piant. Preiss. II. p. 57. — Culmis compressius-

culis clnerascentlbus, vaginis apice late hyalinis; panicula simplici abbreviata, pedun-culis fasciculatis capillaribus floecosotomcntosis, fasciculo gemino (solitariove termi-nali); spiculis nutantibus ovalibus, squamis ovato-obiongis attenuatis apicem versus