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Kunthio descripta, quo dicente variat stigmatibus 2 fructibusquc di- 

 coccis. Au hue Elejia 1 squamosa, mihi? 



2. D. TECTORUM. — Restlotectoium, Linn, Suppl. 425,Jide spec, authent. 

 in herb. Linn. — Elegia racemosa, Pers, Synops, ii, 607 ; Kunth, En. 

 iii. p. 463. — Restio racemosus, Lam. III. t. 804. f. 4? — Restio nudus, 

 var. ct, Nees ab Esenb. Linnaa, v. 651 {excl. synon.), — Restio nudus, 

 var. Py Nees, I. c. excl. syn, 



Hab. Pr. B. Sp. Ex. sp. s. c?, Berffiusl; Burchell, 824!; in planitie 



Capensi, Ecklon, 559!; Brege, 124! 

 2, BurcJiell, 824!; Drege, 250G!; False Bay, Robertson]; Eckl. et 



Zeyh. 60, 5 ! ; " T, 508," in herb. Linn. ! " 

 $ et c?. Speclmina in herb. Linn, veri similiter a Thunberglo leeta ! ; 



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Cape Flats, Ecklon, 865 



According to the specimens in the Linnean herbarium, there is 

 no doubt as to the plant Linne intended to be called Restio tectorum. 

 This corresponds much better, in general appearance, with what 

 Persoon and others have called Elegia racemosa^ than do J?, deusta 

 or E. nuda^ to one or other of which Linne's M. tectorum lias been 

 referred. A manuscript note attached to the Linnean specimens 

 says, "eo tecta conficiuntur ad Cap. B. Sp." 



It differs from E. nuda (which otherwise it much resembles) in 

 the size of its flowers and specially in its obtuse, not pointed glumes. 

 From E. deusta it difiers in the sheaths ; from both it differs in t]jo 

 three-celled, three-lobed fruit. Lamarck's figure oi Restio racemosus 

 shows a dehiscent fruit, and the glumes are acutely pointed ; so 

 that I can only refer his plant to the present species with con- 

 siderable doubt. 



3. D. HooKERiANA, sp. n. Culmis slmphclbus, fihformibus; panicuhi 

 mascula oblongn, pluristachya, spathis deciduis interstincta ; brac- 

 teis suborbicularibus, acuminatis, flores vix a^quantibus ; pistilli rudi- 

 mento 3-stylo : plantae feminese bracteis ovatis, mucrouatis; glumis 

 oblongo-acutis, mucronatis; fructu capsulari, staminodiis 3 longiore, 



stigmatumque vestigiis coronato. 

 Hab. Pr. B. Sp. Ex. sp. s. J, Burchell, 8(>07 !, 75(JS!; Dr. Thorn, 



1021 !, 901 ! 

 $ , Zeyher, 4335 ! ; Dr. Thorn, 632 ! 

 cJ et $, Bnrchell, 80(;2!; Ecklon et Zeyher, 56.6!; Ilottcutotshol- 



landberg, Eckl. i)6i} ! 

 Culmi cajspitosi, erecti, 2-3-pedales, crassitie pennaj corvina?, simpliees 

 vel parce dichotome ramosi, rigidi, tcretes vol comprcssiusculi, farcti, 

 cinerei, irapresso punctulati, maculis purpureis muniti, basi vaginis 

 parvis spadiceis api)roximatis vcstiti, supernc remote vaginati. Ta- 

 gino! arctfc, elliptical, coriaceic, fuscif, nervoRo-striatiC, S-7 lin. lungic, 



