238 DR. M. T. MASTERS OX SOUXn-AFRTCAN RESTIACE^. 



datim brevioribuSj vacuisj penultima fertili (nunc 1-3 fertilibus), 

 termmali minore sterilij cucuUatim convoluta ; stylis 2. 



(S. ?Restio acuminatus, Thunb, Diss. p. 13, n. 8,j?rfe N. ah E. Linnxea, 

 V. p. 652. adn. 3. — CucuUigera dura, Nees ab Esen. in Lindl. Nat. Syst. 

 ed. 2. p. 461. — Thamnochortus strictus, Kunth, Enum. iii. p. 438; 

 Steud. Synops, ii. p. 259, quoad marem. 



Hab. Pr. B. Sp. Ex. sp. s. c?> Thunberg in herb. BanJcs. I, Drege, 101 ! ; 

 Tulbagh, Eckh sine nnmero ! 



$,Drec/e, n. 2514! 



c? et § . Brakfontein (August), Eckl. n. 76 I 



Rhizoma repens, teres, sublignosum, crassitie pennsc anserinae, squatnis 

 nitidis, arete appressis vestitum. Culmi erecti, 1-3-pedales, teretes, 

 fistulosi, stricti, simplices vel parum dichotome ramosi, cinerascentes, 

 purpureo maculati, striatulati, punctulatl, ad basin vaginis arctis, tu- 

 bulosis, coriaceis, approximatis sufFulti, superne remote vaginati. 

 Vagince culmea? pollicares, arete convolutse, ellipticse, coriaceai, striatse, 

 ad niargines membranacese, sub apice obtusiusculo tenui, subulato- 

 uiucronatsc. Spiculce mascul(B 00, in cymam terminalem, paniculatanij 

 phiriratnosam^ oblongam, l|-2^-pol!icarem, spathis magnis vagini- 

 forraibus, apertis, striatis, demum dcciduis iuterstinctam dispositae, 

 singulse multiflorse, 1-2 lin. longse, ovato-ellipticae, sessiles vel bre- 

 viter pedicellatse, pedicellis gracilibus. Bractem undique arete im- 

 biicatae, late ovatse, subulato-acurainatse^ castanese, margine hyalino- 

 albidae, flores rotundatos superantes. Perianthium biseriale, sexgluine ; 

 glumcB externce 3, pallide castanese, oblongse, aeutae, laterales naviculari- 



conduplicatee, tertia lata planiuseula; gJumce internee paulo breviores 

 sequales, oblongse, obtusciusculse, hyalinse. Antherm aplculatse. — Spi- 

 culce feminem in aplce culml, 2-3, sessiles, raclii complanata flexuosa, 

 distiche dispositae, oblongse, ellipticac, scmipollicares et ultra, singulte 

 vagina spathiformi aperta parum longiore suffultse, medio l-S-florae. 

 BractecB undique arete imbricatae, oblongse, aeutse, mucronatse, coria- 

 cese, castanese, inferiores gradatim breviores, vacuse; bractea terminahs 

 sterilis, stipitulata, eucullatim convoluta. Flores perfecti plerumque 

 solitarii, nunc 2-3, laterales. Perianthium inio basi tubulosum, su- 

 perne profunda 6-sectum, segmentis sequalibus, oblongis, obtusis, bya- 

 linis, nervo medio prominente notatis, fructui appressis. Ovarium 

 sessile, ovatum, 1-loculare (adjccto loculo minore, teste Knnth, h c-j, 

 1-ovulatum. Styli 2, filiformes, coraplanati, decidui. Fructus ob- 

 longus, obtusus, compressiusculus, durus, olivaceus, Iscvis, 1-loculans, 

 2-3 lin. longus, periantbio persistente appresso cinctus. 



Specimens in the British Museum, from Thunberg, seem to 

 show that this is the plant published by that author as Eestio acu- 

 minatus ; on the other hand, in the ' Elora Capensis,' Thunberg 

 cites as a synonym of this species Rottboeirs CJiondropetalum 

 midum, which is quite a different plant. 



