DR. M. T. MASTERS ON SOUTH-AFKTCA:^ KESTIACEJ5. 23;i 



Zeyk.l,V2l, 55.?!; EcHon, 11!, 841!; Burchell, 340!; Dr^ge, 

 24 1; a Wright, 490 !, 492 ! ; Admiral Grey !, Burke !, Milne, 217! 

 $ , Drege, 29 !, 83 ! ; Biirchell, 6963 !?, 196 ? ; Simon's Town, Wright, 

 494! 



Plantse femineae, hucusque non observatse, culmus (bipedalis) vagi' 

 nceque ut in mare. Spiculce in apice culmi solitarise vel geminse, 

 plurifloraej cuneato-oblongse, 6-8 lin.longse, 2-3 lin. latae* Bractece laxe 

 imbricatae, oblongo-lanceolatse, concavae, coriaceae, spadiceae, flores 

 suborbiculares compresses 3-4-plo superantes. GZMW2rt?membranace2e, 

 lineis ferrugineis notatse. Glumee externce laterales oblongo-obtusac, 

 conduplicatae, profunda alato-carinatae, carina membranacea lacerata; 

 gluma intermedia antica oblonga, obtusa, membranacea, ad margines 

 lacerata, siiperne ad dorsum fimbrillifera^ nervo medio notata. Gluma: 

 intern(B3, oblongse, acutiusculse, membranacea5,laceratae. Fnictus oh- 

 longus, obtusus, coriaceuSj superne lineo flavido notatus, unilocularis, 

 monospennuSj indehiscens. Styli 3, distincti, exserti, liguliformes, 

 intus villoso stigmatosi. 



The long flattened tubercles on the culms of this plant, both 

 male and female, resemble much the eggs of some moth. Branched, 

 leafj, sterile culms are occasiona]]j to be met M'ith, as usual, 

 shorter than the fertile culms. The structure of the glumes in 

 the female plant is singular. The intervals between the consti- 

 tuent cells are marked out by raised ferruginous h'nes, giving 

 the appearance of a network. The edges, too, of the glumes are 

 more or less deeply cut, while on the back of the anterior glume 

 is often (but not always) to be seen a little tuft of fine hairs. 



14. T, DISTICH us. — Restio distichus, Rottb. Descr, et Tc, p. 6. n. 6, 

 t. 2. f, 5, aliorumque [planta mascula), — R. ? punctulatus^ Kecs ex 

 Mast, Journ. Linn, Soc, viii. 242, quoad femineam. 



Hab. Pr. B. Sp. Ex. sp. s. S ,BurcheUJ040l ; Zeyher, 35!?, 1/37!; 

 Eckl. et Zeyh. 1. 12 !, 77- 9; EckL sine numero ! 



^.Zeyher, 1737! 



The examination of Burchell's more perfect specimens has 

 shown that what I had called, following N'ees, Restio ? punctulatics, 

 is a true Thamnochortus (sect. Staheroha), and that \i is the female 

 plant of Eottboell's Bestio dialichus. 



Species exclt(dendce> 



T. EcKLONiANUS=T. dichotoums, fl. Br, 



T. scARiosus, R, Br,=T. fruticosus, Berg. 



T, coxsANGUiNEus, Kunth=T, dicbotoraus, R, Br. 



T. BHoMoiDEs, Kunthz=iT, dichotomus, R. Br. 



T. MODESTUS, 7irMrt/A=Lei)tocarpus modestus. Mast 



