242 DR. M. T. MASTERS ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIES 
Sect. II. Stigmata 3 subsessilia, distincta, villoso-plumosa. Stami- 
nodia liguleformia vel rarissime nulla. Pistilli rudimentum 
(in flor. masc.) trigonum. 
* Culmi plerumque teretes. 
R. STROBILIFER, Kunth, En. iii. p. 389. n. 25; Steud. Synops. ii. p. 252. 
n. 98. 
Hb, C. B.S. Ex. sp.s. d et 9. Drége, 2474! g. Wallich in herb. 
Hook.! False Bay, Robertson in herb. Mus. Brit.! 
R. PAcHvsTACHYUS, Kunth, En. iii. p. 399. n. 6; Steudel, Synops. ii. 
p. 252. n. 37. 
Hab. C. B. S. Ex. sp. s. Drege, 43, 9! 
R. rurcatus, Nees, MS, (absque descriptione). Culmo ut videtur 
erecto, tereti, 2-3-pedali, dichotome ramoso, ramisque olivaceis, tuber- 
culis albis obsitis, superne parum dichotome ramulosis; vaginis aretis, 
ellipticis, acutis, coriaceis, fuscis, striatis, superne fusco membranaceis, 
lacerato-destructis, squamam alteram obtusam dorso bicarinatam am- 
plectentibus ; spieulis masculis 8-10, in paniculam terminalem parum 
ramosam approximatis, singulis erectis, ovatis, acutis (3-4 lin. long., 
l lin. lat.); bracteis undique arcte imbricatis, ovatis, coriaceis, nervoso- 
striatis, ferrugineis, sub apice fusco membranaceo subulato-mucro- 
natis, flores oblongo-ovatos superantibus; glumis externis oblongis, 
rigidis, lateralibus conduplicatis, ad carinas ferrugineo villosis ; glumis 
internis tribus, parum brevioribus, hyalinis, basi incrassatis; filamentis 
complanatis; antheris ovatis, apiculatis, dorso ferrugineis; pistilli 
rudimento minuto, trigono. 
R. furcatus, Nees, MS. in herb. Sonder. 
Hab C.B.S. Bx. sp. s. d. Eck. et Zeyh.! 
R. aviNQUvEFARIUS, Nees ab Esenb. Linnea, v. p- 639 (1830); Steud. 
Synops. ii. p. 253. n. 48.—R. xyridioides, Kunth, En. iii. p- 397. n. 24. 
Hab. C. B. S. Ex. s. sp. g. In planitie Capensi, Ecklon, nn. 564!, 
564b!, 565!, 566!; Eck. et Zeyh. 78.8! 2. False Bay, Robertson!, 
Lind !; Wynberg (Aug. c. fr. mat.), Eck. ! et sub n. 91!; Simon's Town, 
C. Wright in herb. Coll. Trin. Dubl. n. 484! get 9. Drége, 351; 
Cape Town, Harvey, 372! 
This species varies considerably in size and degree of branching, 
and to a less extent in the form of the spikelets and in their 
number, but in all essential points there is too close a resemblance 
to allow of the species being broken up, especially as numerous 
intermediate links between extreme forms can be found. 
R.? puncTuLatus, Nees, MS. Culmis sesquipedalibus, decumben- 
tibus, teretibus vel subcompressis (crassitie penne corvine), prope 
basin dichotome ramosis, ramisque erectis, olivaceis, albo tubereulatis ; 
