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DE. M. T. MASTERS ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIES 
interne parum breviores. Capsula oblique ovata, unilocularis, coriacea, 
ferruginea, ad latus longitudinaliter dehiscens, styli vestigiis superata. 
Semen magnum; testa grisea, tuberculis parvis obsita. 
R. EcKLONII, sp. n. Culmis cespitosis (pedalibus), teretibus, erectis, 
flexuosis, rigidiusculis, infra medium di- vel trichotome ramosis, yamis- 
que interdum fasciculatim ramulosis, ramulis erectis, arcuatis, strami- 
neis, sulcatis, minutissime tubereulatis; vaginis arctis, tubulosis, coria- 
ceis, ferrugineis, sub apice obtuso membranaceo subulato-mucronatis, 
mucrone plerumque reflexo : spiculis masculis 6-8, in apice ramulorum 
spicatim dispositis, singulis erectis, subeompressis, cylindraceo-lanceo- 
latis (3-4 lin. long., vix 1 lin. lat.); bracteis arcte imbricatis, oblongo- 
obtusis, coriaceis, pallide ferrugineis, sub apice obtuso membranaceo 
longiuscule mucronatis, flores oblongo-lanceolatos superantibus; glu- 
mis externis oblongo-lanceolatis, chartaceis, lateralibus conduplicatis, 
ad carinas pallide ferrugineo villosis; glumis internis conformibus, 
parum brevioribus, hyalinis; antheris linearibus, apiculatis, pallidis. 
Femina latet. 
Hab. C.B.S. Ex.sp.s. d. Ecklon,85!; Eck. et Zeyh. 55.8! ; ? Drége, 
2497! 
The compressed spikelets, obtuse ends of the oblong bracts, and 
the 
narrow, pointed, papery glumes afford good points whereby 
to discriminate this species. Dröge’s 2497, of which I have only 
seen a small fragment, seems very like the above, but the spikelets 
are much larger. 
In Dr. Sonder's herbarium the plant appears under the name 
of R. dichotomus, Thunb., and R. bifidus var. B, N. ab E.; in the 
latter case with a doubt, thus expressed by Nees himself, “ an pro- 
pria species?" As it has nothing to do with either of the plants 
just named, and as it seems distinct, I have dedicated it to its dis- 
coverer. 
R.? DIVARICATUS, sp. n. Culmo, ut videtur, pedali et ultra, erecto, 
tereti, supra medium dichotome ramoso, ramisque longiusculis, erecto- 
patentibus, cinnamomeo-fuscis, albo tuberculatis; vaginis arctis, tu- 
bulosis, unguicularibus, fuscis, coriaceis, albo tuberculatis, sub apice 
obtuso membranaceo haud hyalino mucronato-aristatis; spieulis 
6-8, plurifloris, erectis, in apice ramorum approximatis, spicatim 
dispositis, singulis ovato-lanceolatis (2-3 lin. long., vix 1 lin. lat.); 
bracteis arete imbricatis, ovatis, lanceolatis, subcoriaceis, fuscis, ma- 
eulatis, sub apice membranaceo obtuso longiuscule aristatis, flores 
ovatos fere duplo superantibus; glumis externis ovato-oblongis, rigi- 
diusculis, lateralibus conduplicatis, ad carinas ferrugineo villosis ; 
glumis internis minoribus, conformibus, hyalinis; antheris oblongis, 
apiculatis, flavidis. Femina latet. 
Hab. C. B. S. Ex.sp.s. d. Drége, 2490! 
