224 DR.M. T. MASTERS ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIES 
viding the three-styled section, which Kunth proposed as a new 
genus, but which, from reasons already assigned, I prefer to keep 
as a section of Restio. On the whole, the most satisfactory sub- 
division of this group appears to be one founded on the form of 
the culms. 
As to the species themselves, I have commented on them in 
their several places, and here need not say more than that I have, 
with as much care as I have been able to bestow, examined them 
all again and again, rectified and adjusted their synonymy, and 
reduced and combined some forms aceording to the best of my 
judgment, on the evidence before me. At the same time I have 
ventured to propose the establishment of some new species, 
hitherto, as I believe, undescribed, or indicated (without descrip- 
tions being given) by Nees von Esenbeck in Dr. Sonder’s herba- 
rium. Of these I have given rather lengthened diagnoses, feeling 
that shorter ones would be even more unsatisfactory than those I 
have drawn up. 
CONSPECTUS SPECIERUM. 
Seor. I. Styli duo connati, rarissime distincti. Staminodia nulla. 
Pistilli rudimentum (in flor. masc.) nullum. 
A. Spicule feminee pluriflorc. 
* Vagine culmee laxe. 
+ Spicule mascule approximate vel glomerate, feminee solitarie 
vel aggregate. 
R. SenENGELIL, Mast. MSS.—R. squarrosus, Spreng. Syst. Veg. i- 
p. 186. n. 48 (1826), nee Lamarck; Nees ab Esenbeck, Linnea, v. 
p. 643; Steudel, Flora, 1829, i. 133. n. 6. — R. Luceanus, Kunth, En. 
iii. p. 385 (1841), quoad pl. masc.—? R. vaginatus, Thunb. (fide Steu- 
del, sed vix).—? R. cuspidatus, Thunb. Fl. Cap. i. p. 87. 
Hab. Pr. B. Sp. Ex.s.sp. d. False Bay, Robertson, in herb. Mus. 
Brit.! In campis arenosis lapidosis sub monte Tabulari (Nov., Dee.) ; 
ad Dorsum Leonis inter frutices (Junio) ; Ecklon, n. 84 pro parte !; 
Zeyher |; Sieber! ; Harvey, n. 388 b 15 Milne, 2231; Thom! ; Bergius! 
9 . Eck. Un. It. 848!; Eck. et Zeyh. 77. 9!; Drége, 44! ; Wynberg, 
Wallich! 
Nomen mutavi ob antiquiorem R. squarrosum cl. Lamarck. : 
Plantz feminez adhuc indescriptz characteres adjicio. Culmus vagt- 
neque ut in mare. Spicule 2-3 in apice ramorum approximate, 
erect, oblongo-lanceolatz, pluriflore. Bractee arcte imbricate, 
ovato- lanceolate, superne hyalino-membranacez, sub apice mucro- 
