DK. M. T. MASXEKS OIS SOUTII-AFKICAN KESTIACK.K. 229 



cuhnus et vagince ut in mare. Spiculce 3-4, pluriflorsc, subglobosae, 

 magnitudine pisi magiii, in spicam cymosam, linearem, distichaui, 

 erectam dispositae. Bractece oblongo-lanceolatae, mucronatse, forru- 

 gmege, coriacese, flores vix superantes. Glumce oblonga;, membra- 

 nacese, externce laterales profunda alato-carinata^, intermedia plani- 

 uscula. Glumce internee 3, couformes, gl. antica externa latiores, postica 

 ad margines parum involuta. Ovarium compressuin, suborbiculare, 

 purpureum, stigmate lineari, incluso coronatura. 



Very like a small form of T, spicigerxts^ as to the female plant ; 

 but the male spikelets are widely different from those of that 

 species. 



6. T. FRUTicosus, Berg. FL Cap. p. 353, t. 5. f. 8 (1767). — Restio di- 

 chotomus, Linn, Syst, Nat. ed. 12. torn. ii. p. 735, addenda (17^6), 

 nee UottboelL — R. scariosus, Tkunb. Dm. p. 15. 12? — Tlianinochortus 

 scariosus, R. Brown, Prod, p. 244 (1810); Kunth, Enum, iii. ]>. 430; 

 Steudel Syn. ii. p. 259. — 11. eriophorus, Reichb. in herb. Sieber. 

 Var. glaber. Cultnis glabris, glumis lateralibus externis anguste alatis. 

 Hab. Pr, B. Sp. Ex. sp. s. cS y Sieber, VI, Cap, 230!; Drege, 130!; 



Ecklon, M ! ; Ludwig ! 

 ^9 Masson\-y in planitie Capensi, Ecklon, 28!; Harvey \, Sieber \, 



Eckl et Zeyher, 85 ! 

 c? et 5, Wright, 499 !; Uitenhage, Ecklon, 793 ! 

 Var. glaber, S, Burckelt, 5G-I2!, 5548? ! 



Of this plant, Bergius, L c, has given an excellent figure, so 

 that there is no doubt as to the plant he intended. A manu- 

 script note in Linne's own handwriting in a copy of the 12th 

 edition of the ' Systema/ above cited, also shows that this is the 

 species which Linne intended as the type of Ins genus Restio^, 



The variety with glabrous stems seems only to differ from the 

 type in the absence of a downy investment, 



7. T. DiCHOTOMUS,B/v>M??i, ProfZ. p. 244, adu.; Kunth, Enum, iii. p. 433. 



Cuhnis ahis simphcibus, aliis raraosis ; ramis sterihbus 



em 



pleruraque brevioribus, ramosissimis, foliosis; vaginis arctis, acutato- 

 mucronatis, apicelaceratis et hyalino-aridis ; paniculamascula cymosa, 

 laxa, peduncuhs fasclculatis, flaceidis, ercctis vel dennnn i>Ierumqne 

 patentibus pendulisve. vaginis laceratis suffultis ; spiculis scssilibus et 

 pedunculatis, oblongis, plurifloris ; bracteis ovato-lanccolatis, acutato- 

 subulatis, castaneis, florem 2-plo superantibus ; ghunis externis acu- 

 tiuscuhs, anguste alatis, glumis internis obtusiuscuhs ; autheris api- 

 culatis : spicuhs femineis 2-5, in apiee culmi in cymani linearem spici- 

 forrnem erectam dispositis, singulis rotundatis vel oblongis, glumis 

 externis late alatis, fructibns subrotundo-obovatis. — c?. Restio dieho- 



See my remarks on thi? maft.rr, * Journal of the Linnean Society/ vol. viii. 



p. 212. 



