DU. M. T. MASTERS OX SOUTH-At'UlCAN KKSTlACiS.^. 2G3 



Spicul<B 7nasculce axem per maryinem respicientes {nt in Lolio). 



, 1- H. LAxiFLOHA, Nees ah Esenh. in IJnncea, v. p. 663 ; Kuntk, Enum. 

 iii. p. 451 ; Steud. Synops, ii. p. 264. 

 Uab, Pr. B. Sp. Ex. sp. s. cf , Table Mount (Oct.), Eckl. u. 84^3 ! ; 



EckL et Zeyh, 56. 6 !, 70. 10 ! 

 cJ et $, Dreffe, 10, pro parte. 



This species, like its congeners, varies in the size of its parts. 



Ecklon and Zeyher's u. 70.10 is a very slender form of this 

 species. 



J, H. EcKLONiANA, sp. u. Ciihnis Cirspitosis, teretibns v. subcoin- 

 pressls, infra medium diehotoine nimosissimisj ramis virgatis, erectis, 

 compressiS ; vaginis arctis, compressis, coriaceis, subulato-mucro- 

 natis; spiculis mascuHs 3-5, erecto-patentibus, in cyraam simpHcem 

 terminalem approximatis, siugulis eyliiulraceo-oblongis, multifloris ; 

 bracteis undique imbricatis, oblonj^is, ohtusis, apice laxiusculis ; flori- 

 bus subtrigonis; glurais exteniis lineari-oblongis, gUimis internis la- 

 tioribus; antheris apiculatis : spicuUs femineis in ai)Ice rainulorum, 

 pleruuique solltariis, nuuc 2-3 approximatis, oblongis, demum ob- 

 euueatis, Kfloris; bracteis subulato-mucronatis; gkunis oblongis, ob- 

 tusis, subacqualibus, fructum iequantibus ; ovario oblongo, unih)culan, 

 stylo brevissimo superato; stigmatibus 2, linearibus, revohitis, ex- 

 sertis; fructu duro, indehiscente. — Hypola?ua Eckkniiana, Nees, M:S. 



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in herb. Bonder., sine descript. 



Hah. Pr. B. Sp. Ex. sp. s. d*, Massonl, Burchell, 7^44!, 7^9/ 

 8267 ! ; Sieber, FL Cap. 228 ! 



$, Hottentotshollaud Kloof, Eckl. 9501; Dr. Thorn, 103] , pro parte ; 

 Admiral Grey ! 



c? et 5, Gr. Houhoek (July), Zeyher, 4348!; Muysenberg, Zeyhf-r, 

 4348 b ! ; Simonstadt, Eckl. 997 ! ; 7>. Thorn, 632!, pro parte. 



Culvii 1-3-pedales, crassitie pennae gallinaccae, ad basim ca^spitosi, ra- 

 ginis coriaceis laceris dense vestiti, teretes, striolati, purpureo ma- 

 eulati, infra medium dichotome ramosi, ramique compressi, virgati, 

 elongati, impresso-punctulati, vix striolati, iterum ramulosi. Va- 

 ffin<e cuhnece remotiuscula?, 6-8 lin. longae, arete convolutae, ob- 

 longse, ellipticae, coriacea^, fuscae, striolatte, ad margiues coucolores, 

 tenuiores, sub apice acutiusculo subulato-mucronatjc. Spicules mas* 

 culfB 3-5, in cymam simplicem terminalem disticham l-ll-jwlli- 

 carem dispositae, singulae erectae vel horizontaliter patentes, cylin- 

 ilraceo-oblongae, 5-6 lin. longae, l-l^ lin. lata?, basi spatha aperta va- 

 giniformi ipsa dimidio breviore, demum decidua, suffultse, rachin 

 flexuosain, complanatam per margines respicientes. Bractete 6- 

 fariam imbricatae, apice subpatentes, oblongw, cymbiformes, obtu- 

 siusculac, submut^ca^ coriaceae, ferrugincie, nitidac, florcs stipitulatos 

 paulo supcrantcs. Perianthium subtrigouum ncc cumpicssum, bi- 



