2G0 DU. M. T. MASTKKS OX SOITTH-ArUTOAN KESTTACE.T:. 



Hab. Pr. B. Sp. Ex. sp. s. J et ? , Cape Flats, EckL 85 ! ; Hot- 

 tentotshollandsberg (Sept. Oct.)? EckL et Zeyh. 78. 8 ! ; BvrcheJl, 

 5646 ! 



c? . Pampoes Kraal, EckL et Zeyh. 77- ^ ! ; Caledon, Zeyher ! n, 4352 ! ; 

 Burchell, 6662!, 8545! 



Cuhni csespitosi, ad basim squamis coriaceis, ovato-oblongis, laceris, 

 dense approximatis vestiti. Culmi steriles 6-8-pollic., simplices, strict! 

 vel arcuati, compressi, sulcato-striati, purpureo maculati ; vagina* 

 oblongse, compressfe, arcta^jCoriaceae, sub apice tenuore concolorivalide 

 subulato-mucronataj, Culmi fertiles teniiiorcs, longiores, plerunique 

 strieti, prre ceteris sterilibus conformes; vagincG eis culmorum steri- 

 lium conformes, nisi magnitudine minore mucroneque multo breviore 

 tenuioreque. Spiculce ma^culac oblongse, erectai, compressa;; 6-8 lin, 

 longae, 2 lin. lata;, singula; spatTia aperta aristata spiculam a;qnante 

 suffultse. Bractece arete inibricatae, elliptica;, coriacea^, ferruginco 

 maculatai, sub apice obtusiusculo mucronato-aristatse, /ores oblongo- 

 lanceolatos arcuatos paulo superantes, Perianthium ina^qualiter bi- 

 seriale, sexglume. Giumce extervce membranaceoe, ferruginea^, mucro- 

 natse, laterales oblonga^, conduplicata;, carinat?c, carina glabra; ghma 

 intermedia antica^ conformis, i)laniuscula, nervo medio prominente do- 

 nata. Glum<B interna 3, hyalinae, externis dimidio longiores, sub- 

 spatbulatse, lanceolata;, basi in tubum connata;, tubo brevi superne 

 inaequaliter diviso, lacinla altera plana omnino libera, duabus nonnisi ad 

 apices connatis, et ad margines externos involutls. Filamenta liguli- 

 formia, albida, longitudine glumarura internarum. Antherce lineari- 

 oblongic, apiculata;, dorso ferruginea;, demura exserta?. — Planta fe- 

 minea masculina; conformis. Spiculce minores, tenuiores, l-flora?. 

 Perianthium minutum, ut videtur, biseriale, 6-glunie, ghimis hyalinis 

 oblongis, externis majoribus, mucronatis, omnibus liberis. Ovarium 

 oblongum, obtusum, 1-loculare, brevissime stipitatum, superne disco 

 crasso epigyno donatura. Styli duo, decidui, intus stigmatoso-vil- 

 losi. Fructus . 



Nees established bis genus Lepidanthits on tlie male flowers 

 only, the female plant being at the time unknown to him^ and 

 was probably led to do so from the smaller size of the outer 

 glumes of the perianth, as contrasted with the inner ones \ Nees 

 also describes the inner glumes as "brevi spatio connatse. 

 Kunth, under the head of Bestio sulcatus, describes the glumes 

 nearly in the same terms as above given, and which apply, so far 

 I have seen, in the majority of cases ; but the degree of union 

 seems to vary ; so also in the ease of the female flower the num- 

 ber, size, and form of the glumes differ in different specimens. 



10. H. Neesii, sp. n, Culmis simplicibus, strictissimis, IS-polhc, 

 teretibus, fistulosis, profunde longitudinaliter sulcatis ; vaginis arete 

 convolutis, bipoUicaribus, coriaceis, superne membranaceis, laceris, Ion- 



