270 J)K. "M. T. MASTEHS ox SOUTH-ArRICAN EESTIACEJS. 



hyalino-membranaceae, pars terminalis menibranacea cum inferiore 

 articulataet demum decidua. Spiculce masculm iu apicibus ramorum 

 solitarise (an semper?), erectae, oblongae, 6-8 lin. longje, 2-3 lin. latse, 

 spatha coriacea aperta vaginiformi suffultae. Bract€<B oblongo- 

 laneeolatae, acutatae, membranaceae, superne pallide ferruginese, ^ore* 

 remotiusciilos duplo superantes. Periantkium biseriale, 6-gluine, 

 glumis linearibus, hyalinis ; anthercs lineares, apiculatae, dorso ferru- 

 ginese. 



2. W. STRIATA, Thunb. Act. Holm. 1/90, p. 2/, t. 2. f. 1 ; Kunfh.Enum. 

 in. p. 453 ; Steud. Syn. ii. p. 262. — Neraatanthus Eckloiiii, Nees ab 

 Eseiib, Linncea, v. p. 662, teste Neeslo ipso, in herb. Sonder., quoad 

 pi. masc. — Willdenovia neglecta, Steud. Synops. ii. p. 263. 



Hab. Pr. B. Sp. Ex. sp, s. c? et $, Zeyher, 1/36!; Ecklonet Zeyher, 



sine numero ! 

 (J J "ad pedem mentis Tigridis et inter Weinberg et montem Stellen- 



bosch (Maio, Junio, Julio)," et Olifants River, Ecklon !, Burchell, 7&7 U 



Drege, n. 2520 ! 

 2.Drege,u. 2516!, n. 2515b! 



I follow Kuuth in referring Drege's specimens (with which the 

 others above cited correspond in all essentials) to W. striata^ 

 Thunb., though the latter author represents the fruit as provided 

 with "stipite cupulari 6-partito." In all the specimens that I 

 have examined, the fruit has simply been raised on a very short, 

 smooth, not lobed, stipes. Kunth, in describing Drege's specimens, 

 seems to have overlooked tbe punctations on the fruit, which he 

 describes as smooth, and hence probably led Steudel to form his 

 W. neglecta, in which the fruit is rightly described as punctate* 

 In point of fact, the markings on the fruit vary in different speci- 

 mens, according to age &c. Drege's 2515b, on which Steudel 

 founded his species, does not differ materially from the others. 



3, W. SULCATA, sp. n. Culmo decumbente, infra medium dichotome 

 ramose, ramisque erectis, teretibus v. subcompressis, longiusculis, 

 sulcato-striatis ; vaginis culmeis subpellicaribus, nisi ad ramificationes 

 arete eonvolutis, superne membranaceis, mucronato-aristatis ; panicuhs 

 masculis pauciramosis j spiculis femineis solitariis vel geminis, eyUn- 

 draceo-oblongis, demum ebcuneatis, ^-pollicaribus ; bracteis oblongo- 

 ovatis, mueronatis ; flore unico, stipitato, stipite camoso integro (nee 

 lobato); glumis 6, oblonge-ovatis, ovarium Iseve sequantibus; styli* 

 duobus, distinctis. 



Hab. Pr, B. Sp. Ex. sp. s. J, Cape Flats {Martio\ Ecklon, n. 930 ! 



5, Ecklon in herb. Sonder., sine numero I 



Culmi decumbentes, erecti, teretes, 2-3-pedales, crassitie peunse galH- 

 naceaCj infra medium dichotome ramosi, ramique eloogati, compres- 

 siusculi, olivacei, longitudinaliter sulcate-striati, albo-lepidoti. Vogtfi(^ 



