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fide iVee^.— Thaiunochortus dichotomus, Kunth, Enum. iii. p. 4:^3^ 

 pro parte. — Restio paleaceus^ Nees in herb., pro parte. 

 Hab, Pr. B. Sp. Ex. sp. s. c?, Masson !, Burchell, 6169 !, 6284 ! ; Table 



Bay,Robertso7il; EckL2S\, Eckl77 \ ; -Dre^^e, 129 M35 ! (spec, juve- 

 nilia?); Br, Thorn, 900 I; ?C. IVrighf, 489 I 



2y Eckl. et Zeyh, 1, 11!; Tigerberg, Zeyher, 1093 1; Ecklon, 84!, 



85 !, 838 ! ; Dr. Thorn, in herb. Kew'. 542 ! 

 <? et $, Dreffe, 129! 



Culmi fertiles caespitosi, erecti, 2-4-pedales, teretes, sitnplices, crassitie 

 penna) galiinacea?, straminei, obsolete impresso punctulati, basi vaginis 

 spadiceis approxiraatis dense vestitij superne remote vaginati. Culmi 

 steriles spithamsei et ultra, infra medium dichotome ramosi, ramis 

 semiteretibus, iterum iterumque divaricato ramosissimis, ramulis ul- 

 timis crassiusculis foliosis. Vagince cuhnorum fertilium arete con- 

 volutae, ellipticse, coriacea?, fuscae, nervoso-striata^, sub apice membra- 

 naceo raucronata?, nonnunquam lacera?, l|-2-polIicares. Vagince 

 culmorum sterilium minores, superne lacerato-membranacea^, mucro- 

 nulatas. Vagirids ramulorum in folium subulatiun curvatum produet®. 

 Spicul(B masculce nuraerosse, in pauiculam terminalem cymosam, parce 

 diffusam vaginisque apertis brevibus interstinctam disposita;, singuljc 

 oblongo-eylindraceae, rectae vel leviter areuata?, 3-5 lin. longa^. BractecB 

 arete imbricata;, oblongae, acutae, niucronulatae, coneavae, coriaceae, fer- 

 rugineae, margiuibus superne parum membranaccis, flores oblongos vix 

 superantes. Gluma oblongae, membranaceae, ferrugineae, laterales ex- 

 ternce naviculari-conduplicatae, ai)iculatae, angustissime carinatac, ffn- 

 tica planiuscula ; interntB 3, conformes, minores, tenuiores. AnihertB 

 inclusae, apiculatae. — Plantac femineae culmi vaffinceyue ut in mare. 

 Spinulce 5-12, subglobosac, sing. 3-5 lin. loiigae, pluriflorac, in cymam 

 linearem, disticliam, ercctam, terminalem dispositae. Bracteat undique 

 imbrieatae, superne parum patentes, ovato-lanceolatae, coriacca?, fer- 

 rugineae, ad margines tenuiores, flores compressos orbiculares 2-3-plo 

 superantes. GlumcB membranaceae, ferrugineae, externce laterales ob- 

 longae, obtusae, navicuIari-couduplicatae,profunde alato-cannatae,^/wma 

 intermedia antica paullo brevior, planiuscula, ovato-oblouga, dorso 

 nervo medio notata; glamce internee conformes, tenuiores, postica 

 paullo latior, ad margines parum involuta. Fructus subcompressus, 

 ovatus, coriaceus, fuscus, glaber, unilocularis, indehiscens, stigmate 

 diu persistente, lineari, cxserto coron;'t^. 



This species differs from T. dicliotoihus in its less acutely pointed 

 and more oblong bracts, as well as in the more rounded form of 

 the female spikes. 



3. T. ARGENTBUs, Kuuthy EuuM. iii. p. 432 ; Steud. Syn, H. p. 259. 



Restio argenteus, Thunb. Diss. p. 14. 11. 

 Variat bracteis pallide castaneis, 

 Hab. Pr. B. Sp. Ex. sp. s. c?, Burchelh 69/8!; Drege, 132 b! 



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