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R. SUBVERTICILLATUS, Mast. MS. Culmo erecto, tereti (2-3-pedali), 
ad vaginas subverticillatim ramoso, ramisque filiformibus, erecto-pa- 
tentibus, crassiusculis, iterum fasciculatim vel dichotome ramulosis, 
foliaceis vel aphyllis; vaginis culmeis laxis, ovatis, acutis, coriaceis, 
semipollicaribus et ultra, rameis ellipticis, superne membranaceis, sub 
apice bilobato hyalino subulato-mucronatis, mucrone in folium lineare 
arcuatum nonnunquam producto: spieulis masculis 6-8, in apice ra- 
mulorum, in paniculam simplicem disticham parum approximatis, 
singulis erectis vel patentibus, eylindraceo-lanceolatis, rectis v. leviter 
arcuatis (4-5 lin. long., vix 1 lin. lat.) ; bracteis arcte imbricatis, ovatis, 
acutis, dorso convexis, ferrugineis, coriaceis, sub apice membranaceo 
mucronulatis, flores paulo superantibus; glumis externis lateralibus 
duabus oblongis, obtusiusculis, naviculari-conduplicatis, ad carinas fer- 
rugineo villosis; gluma intermedia antica planiuseula, oblonga, ferru- 
ginea, dorso medio parum ferrugineo villosa ; glumis internis 3, brevio- 
ribus, oblongis, marginibus superne parum involutis: spiculis femi- 
neis 1-3, in apice ramulorum sessilibus pedunculatisve, erectis, ellip- 
ticis, demum subelavatis, pyriformibus (1-3 lin. long., 1-2 lin. lat.), 
plurifloribus; bracteis inferioribus vacuis, ceteris fertilibus, flores 
ovato-oblongos vix superantibus; glumis 2 externis lateralibus late 
ovatis, acutis, rigidis, coriaceis, ferrugineis, ad carinas dense ferru- 
gineo villosis, glumam intermediam conformem planiusculam celan- 
tibus; glumis internis 3, minoribus, tenuioribus, lateralium margi- 
nibus superne involutis, postica planiuscula ; ovario rotundato, com- 
presso, biloculari, stylo elongato superne bifido superato; capsula 
oblique ovata, uuiloculari, monosperma. 
Ischyrolepis subverticillata, Steudel, l. c. p. 249, quoad plantam femi- 
neam.—R. ferruginosus, Link fide Kunth, quoad pl. fem.—R. casua- 
rinzeformis, N. ab E. in herb. Sonder. 
Hab. C. B. S. Ex. sp. s. d. 1620 pro parte, Drége!; Stellenbosch, 
Harvey!; Ecklon!; Zeyher! 2. Dröge, 1!; Harvey!; Eck. et Zeyh. 
61. 5! 
V. v. cult. in hort. Angl. sub nom. Willdenovie teretis. 
Steudel separated the female plant (the male was unknown to 
him) from Link’s R. ferruginosus, and made it the type of a new 
genus, differing mainly from Restio in the possession of four in- 
stead of six glumes to the perianth, in the thicker glumes, and in 
the whorled condition of the branches. In all the specimens that 
have come under my observation there are six glumes, the two 
outer lateral ones so much larger, however, than ordinary, that 
they touch by their anterior margins, and hence almost wholly 
conceal the intermediate glume. In the male plant the form of 
the glumes is more obtuse and their texture less rigid than in the 
female plant; so that in these particula;s the male plant bears 
very great resemblance to R. ferruginosus, from which, however, 
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