582 DR. M. T. MASTERs's SUPPLEMENTARY 



ever, are females, a fact I had previously overlooked. The 

 examination now made induces me to restore Nees's plant and to 

 complete its description by adding the chief marks of the female 

 plant. In general appearance it greatly resembles E. propinqua, 

 KuDth, but differs in the acute, not rounded, perianth-segments. 



E. propinqita, Kunth, Enum. iii. p. 473, char, emend. ; rhizo- 

 mate repente ; culmo solido simplici seu ad ramos verticillatim 

 ramoso ; vaginis culmeis oblongis obtusis demum deciduis ; in- 

 florescentia mascula 4-5 cm. long, oblonga paniculatim cymosa 

 densa; spathis 2 cm. long, ovato-oblongis apertis ; perianthii 

 segmentis obtusiusculis ; inflorescentia feminea oblonga spiciformi 

 3 cm. long., bracteis naviculatis floribus brevioribus. 



Kestio propinquus Nees in Linncea, v. p. 653. — Elegia pro- 

 pinqua, Mast, in De Candolle, Mon. Phanerog. i. p. 356, aliqua ex 

 parte. 



%. Rhizoma procurrens (in exemplo masculo a cl. Mac Owan 

 nee non in specimine femineo cl. Bolus lecto observato). Culini 

 ascendentes simplices 60-80 cm. crassitie pennse columbina? 

 olivaceo-cinerei, leviter gyroso-sulcati albido-lepidoti. Vagina? 

 2-2 J cm. subpersistentes laxe convolutae oblonga? coriaceae ferru- 

 giueae sub apice obtuso mucronulatae, demum deciduee annulum 

 nigrescentem relinquentes. Inflorescentia mascula 4-5 cm. long, 

 oblonga dense paniculatim cymosa, spathis eliipticis vagini- 

 formibus apertis suffulti. Flores ovoidei sub 2 mm. long, stipu- 

 lati, bractea seu spathella ovata obtusa parum longiores. Peri- 

 anthii segmenta externa oblonga obtusa, segmenta interiora 

 dimidio longiora oblonga. Antherae apiculatse. Inflorescentia 

 feminea spicatim cymosa oblonga 3 cm. longa. Spathae oblongo- 

 lanceolatae apertae 2-2^ cm. long. Spathellae naviculatse floribus 

 oblongis subcompressis dimidio breviores. Perianthii segmenta 

 omnia aequalia circa 2 mm. long, conformia oblonga. Ovarium 

 segmenta aequans subtrigonum nitidum nigrum impresso-punctu- 

 latum, 1-loculare, 1-spermum stylis tribus superatum. 



Ad Prom. B. Spei, Ecklon et Zeyher 56, 5 c?; Burchell 8066 

 6 ; 7492, 7710 $ ; Br. Thorn 1023 $ ; in clivis orient, mont. 

 Diabol, Bolus 4457, et prope Bainskloof, 4087 $ ; ad Witteklip, 

 Mac Owan, 2152 $ . 



Forma minor Burchell 822 3 ; Rehmann, in montibus supra 



"Worcester, 2565, 2570. 



A species nearly allied both to Elegia juncea and to Elegia mem- 

 branacea. From the former it differs in its much shorter in- 



