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abortivi; caeteri perfect!, oblongi. Glumw externa /a/era/esrigidiusoulae, 

 oblongae, obtusse, palUde ferrugineae, naviculari-conduplicatac, villoso 

 carinatae; gluma intermedia oblonga, obtusa, membranacea ; ylumce in- 

 ternce 3, oblongse, obtusse, membranacca?, exteruis dimidio breviores, 

 postica plauiuscula, laferales ad margiaes superne parum involutae. 

 Ovarium oblongum, obtusiim, subtrigonum, disco epigyno, calloso, 

 flavido superatura. Stigmata 3, linearia, elongata, villosa^ demum 

 exserta. 



The ai'rangement here proposed is, I believe, more in accordance 

 with truth than that published by Kuuth ; for while the plant tliat 

 he referred to the male of this species, '' 1623 ?, Droge," is clearly 

 the mdleo^ Bestio ochreatus^TLMiii\\i\\e plant named by the same 

 author Calopsis hirtella only differs from L.peronatus $ (so far as 

 the culm and sheaths go) in the one character that the surface in 

 the former is covered with a velvety pubescence ; hut as this is in- 

 constant, depending apparently on the age of the plant, and is also 

 found on some of the female plants of X. peronatus^ we must either 

 make two species, one glabrous, one velvety, or consider them 

 varieties one of the other : I prefer the latter course, as there are 

 no other appreciable differences except in the pubescence, while 

 both forms seem to have been met with at the same time and 

 place, and to have been sent home under the same numbers. 

 Kunth's C. oxylepis resembles the above species closely, but may 

 be knovm by the shorter and less-recurved sheaths. 



6. L. NEGLECTus. — Calopsis neglecta, Hochst, Flora, 1845, p. .358; 



Steud. Syn. ii. p. 258. 

 Hab. Pr. B. Sp. Ex. sp. s. c^ et ?, Drege^ n. ^58 ! 

 cf , Burchell, 8016!, pro parte. 



7- L. MODESTUS, — Thamnochortus modcstus, Kunth, Enum. iii. p. 434, 



quoad plant, masc. — Restio paleaceus,iV.aJ. JS. J/S.ni herb. Sonder.pro 



parte, 

 Hab. Pr. B. Sp. Ex. sp. s. c? > Drege, 1 3 8^ ! ; Albany, Williamson \ 



EckL et Zeyh, 82 ! ; Graham's Town, Ecklon, sine numero ! ; Burchell, 



8016 ! 



2>Dr^ge,7l 



Plantse feminese, adhuc indescriptae, culmus vaginceque ut in mare. 



Spiculm 00, sing, l-florae, 2-3 lin. longse, oblongse, acuti3e, erectae, basi 

 spatha aperta, vaginiformi, aristata suffultae et in paniculam cymosam 

 terminalem dispositae. Bractea arete imbricatae, coriaceae, ferruginea;, 

 8Ub apice membranaceomucronatse, omnes, una exeepta, steriles- Flos 

 solitarius, terminahs, stipitulatus, oblongus, bractea stipante vix bre- 

 vier, Glumce subaequales,rigidiusculse, ferruginese, oblongo-acutae, sub- 

 cymbiformes; staminodia lignUformia, 3? vel nulla. Fructus iniroa- 



X*1NX. PBOC. — BOTANY, TOIi. X. Q 



