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taceusj calyce persistente arete obtectus, ejus fundo adnatus eumque 

 longitudine subsequans, indehiscens. (Deser. fruct. ex el. Kunth) 



The male plant is in the Linnean herbarium, under the name 

 oi Restio vimineiiSj the name -B. diclwiomxis having also been at- 

 tached to it in Linne's handwriting, and subsequently erased. 

 The female plant is also called H, vimineus in the same herba- 

 barium. The lanceolate bracts and lacerated sheaths serve to 

 distinguish this species from its near allies. 



8. T. GiGANTEUS, Kuuth, Enum, iii. p. 435; Steud, Synops. ii.p. 259. 

 Hab. Pr. B. Sp. Ex. sp. s. c?, Burchell, 5/11-12 !, 6994 ! ; Dreffe, 2 ! 

 Femuia latet. 



9- T. FLORiBUNDUS, Kuntk, Enum. iii. p. 435, J ; Steud. Synops. ii. 



p. 259. 

 Species mihi ignota. An T, elongato referenda? 



10. T. STRiATUS, HocTist. Flora, 1845, p. 339; Steud. Syn. ii. p. 26U 



Planta feraiuea cl, Hochstett., loc, cit., descripta, mihi ignota. 



** Sfyli 2-3 (Staberoha? species, Kunth), 



11. T. IMBRICATUS. — Uestio imbricatus, T/;w?z&.p.9.no.l, f.l, — Lepto- 



carpus imbricatus. Brown, Prod. p. 250. — Restio s|)icigenis ft, cuhno 



nionostachyo, Nees ab Esenb, Linn(Ba, v. p. 647, fide spec, authent. in 



herb. Sander. — Staberoha imbricata, Kunth, Enum. iii. p. 442, quoad 



femineam. — Thamnochortus a^muhis, Kunth, Enum. iii. p. 439, quoad 



masculam. 

 Far. stenoptenis. Glumarum extemarum lateralium carinis anguste alatis. 

 Staberoha steiioptera, Kunth, Enum. iii. p. 443.— Restio tctrasei)aliis, 



Steudel, Synops. ii. p. 251. An hue Restio simplex, Thunb. Diss.u. 15V 

 Hab. Pr. B. Sp. Ex. sp. s. c^,EckL et Zeyh. 56. G !, I. 11 !; Eckl. 588 ! ; 



Drege, 1652!; Wallichl 

 ^.Burchell, 6319!, /SSlIj C. Wright, 493!; Drkje, 29!; Eckl. et 

 Zeyh. 831; MatonU Dr. Lind.li Simon's Bd.y, Milne, 43'i\; Dr. 



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Thom, 908 ! 

 Var. stenopterus, S , Admiral Grey ! 

 2 » Drhge, 2? !, 1636 ! ; Wallich ! 



The deep Aving to the carina in this species is sometimes ferru- 

 ginous, at other times hyaline, while in the variety stenopterus it is 

 much narrower than in the type. Setting apart this distinction, 

 however, I can find no valid marks of separation between the two 

 forms, which accordingly I combine. In Linne's herbarium, 

 under the name " simplex^' is a female plant of the variety ste- 

 nopterus. - - . . . ^^, , 



Thunb 



I have no means of ascertaining. Some of Drege's specimens 

 issued under n. 27 have the upper portions of the bracts de- 



