1>R. M. T. MASTEHS on SOUXn-ArRICAN BESTIACE^. 275 



%vhetlier this be rcallj separable from Ili/polcsna. The flowers 

 are remote from each other along the side of the slender brauclies, 

 somew^hat in the same way as in the Australian genus Calorophis. 



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Craspedolepis, Steud, Synops. Glumac. ii. p. 2(54. 



1. C. FiMBRiATA, Stcud. I, c, $. Specles mihi ignota. 



EestiOj vide Journ. Linn, Soc viii. p. 224, 



(Addenda et Corrigenda.) 



R. Rhodocoma. Culmis ereotis (tripedaUbus), teretibus, ad vaginas 

 subverticillatim ramulosis, ramulis erectis, gracihhus ; vaginis culmels 

 arcte convohitis, superne biceris; vaginis rameis arctis, sub aplce 

 ]>rofunde hyahno bilobato mucronato-aristulatis ; spiculis niasculis 

 00, in paniculam ami)lam tcrminalem phniramo3am dispositis, sin- 

 guhs ovato-oblongis, parvis; bractcis arcte imbricatis; floribus ob- 

 longis, subtrigonis; glumis rigidis : spiculis fcinineis conformibus, 

 nunc in apicibus ramulorum sohtariis vel geminis, sed ])lerumqne in 

 cj'mas hneares distichas phu*istachyas dispositis, singulis 1-floris ; 

 pcrianthio trigono, 6-glumi; glumis obtiisis, rigidis, internis panic la- 

 tioribus ; staminodlis 3-linearibus ; ovario 3-loculari ; stigmatibus 3, 

 ferrugineo-villosis; capsula rigida, 3-loculari, 3-angulari, angulis sa- 

 lientibus deliiscente. — Rhodocoma Equisetum, Nees ah Esenb. in 

 LindL Nat, Syst, ed. 2. p. 450; Kitnth, Enum, iii. p. 480; Steud, 

 Synops, ii. p. 248. 

 Hab. Pr. B. Sp. Ex. sp. s. c7 et $ , Burchell, n. 3322 ! ; Dnffe, 20\G ! ; 

 Z;vartkopsrivier, distr, Uitenbage, EckL n. 788 ! 



c?, Stellenbosob, Mundi I 



Culmi erecti, tripedaleset ultra, crassitie pennae cygneac, basi, spatio bi-, 

 tripollicari, vaginis coriaceis, fuscis, lacerato-dcstructis, aj>proximatis 

 vestiti, superne remote vaginati, olivacei \f stramiuci, intenlum nigro 

 maculati, minntissime impresso-jmnctulati, supra metliuui ad va- 

 ginas subverticillatim ramidosi. Ramuli filiformes, compressiusculi, 

 cto-patentes, infimi steriles, supremi spiculigeri, sterihbus lon- 

 giores. Vagina* culme<^ poUicares et ultra, arcte convolutse, ellip- 

 ticae, acuminatae, coriacea;, purpurasccntes, striolatse, ad margines 

 profunde hyalino-membranacea;, apice in aristam longam, tardius de- 

 ciduam dcslnentes. VagincB rameales 3-4 lin. longa;, arcte coriacea?, 

 sub apice profunde bilobato, lobis hyalinis, aristulat^c, vel in ranmlis 

 sterllibus jdus minus foliaceo-niucrouatis. Spiculce masculce 00, in 

 apice ramulorum verticillatorum in cyjnas lineares, simplices, plu- 

 ristachyas, distichas dispositfc, mmc solitaria^ vel gemince, plerurarpic 

 iuflorescentiam niagnara, 6-8-poll., oblongam, erectam efformantcs, 

 singulse ovato-oblonga;,vix 2hn. longac,| lin.lat£c,plurflora;,axemflex- 

 uosam complanatam per margines respicientes, spatha oblonga, coria- 

 cea, superne profunde hyalina, longiuscule acuminato-aristata suffulta;. 



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