

584 DR. M. T. MASTERS's SUPPLEMENTARY 



Elegia juncea, Linn. Mant. 1771 ! p. 297 ; Kunth, Nees, 

 Masters et auctt. var. omnes aliqua ex parte, synonymisque ex- 

 cludendis.— Restio Elegia, Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. 14, p. 882!— 

 Restio thyrsifer, Lam. III. 804, f . 3 $ (fide icon. Lam.), nee 

 Bottbdll. 



If. . Culmi erecti solidi 3-4 ped. alt., crassitie penna? gallinacea?, 

 teretes vel compressiuseuli obsolete puncticulati siccitate leviter 

 gyroso-sulcati. Vaginae culmea? decidua? relicto annulo trun- 

 cato. Inflorescentia mascula 7-8 (usque ad 20) cm. long, lineari- 

 oblonga compacta paniculatim cymosa pluriflora. Spatha? ob- 

 longa? vel oblongo-lanceolata? plana? vel convoluta? subcoriacea? ad 

 margines tenuiores, papulosa? intus albido-nitentes. Spatheila? 

 ad basin ramorum cyma? oblongo-lanceolata? acuminata?, ramos 

 haud superantes ; spatheila? ultima? ordinis seu bractea? oblongse 

 obtusa? floribus rotundatis vix breviores. Perianthii segmenta 

 externa oblonga obtusa castanea segmenta interiora conformia 

 duplo longiora ; anthera? lineari-oblonga? apiculata?. 



Inter plantas Linneanas adsunt specimina qusedam quibus 

 inflorescentia valde elongata angustior, spatbis minus apertis, 

 spatbellisque plus solito evolutis. Planta? feminea? culmus ut in 

 mare. Inflorescentia lineari-oblonga spathis subdistichis arete 

 convolutis spathellisque brevibus. Spatheila? ultima? seu bracteae 

 oblonga? obtusa? floribus vix breviores. Periantbii oblongi 

 teretis segmenta lineari-oblonga obtusiuscula omnia subaequalia. 

 Eructus lineari-clavatus trigonus perianthio aequilongus, nitide 

 niger, 1-locularis. 



Descriptio maris e speciminibus Linneanis desumpta, feminea? 

 ex exemplariis a cl. Bolus lectis (n. 4457). 



In clivis orientalibus montis Diaboli prope Cape Town, B. 

 Brown 6 ; Bolus 2884, 4456 d 1 , 4457 $ ; Bowie <$ ; Drege 103, 

 367 6 ; Sieber 229 $ ; McGillivray 432 6 ; Harvey 389 tf; Dr. 

 Thorn 892 <$ ; prope Cape Town, Belmann 1455 6 ; Zeyler 

 4340 ; Burckell 8132 $ . 



The synonymy of this species is almost hopelessly entangled in 

 books, mainly because authors have not been enabled to consult 

 the authentic specimens of Linna?us, Thunberg, Eottboll, and 

 Lamarck. Each author in turn has guessed at the meaning of 

 his predecessor. The earlier descriptions, moreover, are very 

 incomplete, and without actual comparison do not allow of the 

 matching of male and female specimens. Erom E. propinqua, 

 E. juncea may be known principally by its much longer inflo- 



