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superantibus; glumis externis rigidiusculis, oblongo-acutis, lateralibus 
conduplicatis, villoso carinatis; glumis internis parum brevioribus, 
latioribus, hyalinis; antheris flavis, dorso castaneis; pistilli rudimento 
minuto; staminodiis 3; ovario ; eapsula ovata, compressa, bilocu- 
lari, coriacea, ferruginea. 
Hab. C. B. S. Ex.sp.s. 2. Eck. et Zeyh. 51. 7! 
R. PURPURASCENS, Nees, MS. (absque descriptione). Culmo erecto, 
valido, compressiusculo, bi-tripedali (crassitie pennæ anserinz), versus 
medium dichotome ramoso, ramis longiusculis, erecto-patentibus; va- 
ginis, nisi ad ramificationes, arctis, ellipticis, obtusis, fuscis, coriaceis, 
purpureo maculatis, marginibus superne membranaceis, sub apice ob- 
tuso foliaceo-mucronatis; spiculis 2-5, in apice ramorum spicatim 
dispositis, approximatis vel parum remotis, sessilibus vel pedicellatis, 
singulis oblongis, obtusis, erectis, pollicaribus (2-3 lin. lat.), basi spatha 
aperta vaginzformi praditis; bracteis laxe imbricatis, infimis vacuis, 
ceteris fertilibus, oblongis, acutis, coriaceis, ad margines membranaceis, 
flores 3-4plo superantibus; glumis externis rigidiusculis, oblongo-lan- 
ceolatis, lateralibus naviculari-conduplicatis, villoso-carinatis, inter- 
media basi incrassata, lateralibus vix longiore; glumis internis brevio- 
ribus, subhyalinis, conformibus, in plant. masc. imo basi connatis ; 
antheris lineari-oblongis, apicatis, dorso ferrugineis, antice flavidis ; 
pistilli rudimento trigono; ovario subtrigono, castaneo, biloculari, 
stigmatibus tribus linearibus villosis elongatis superato; capsula bi- 
loculari, ad margines dehiscente. 
Variat culmo spiculisque minoribus. 
R. purpurascens, Nees, MS. in herb. Sonder. Femina tantum. 
Hob C.H. S: Ex. sp.s. d. Dr. Lind in herb. Mus. Brit.! 9. Hot- 
tentotshollandberg (Maio), Eck. et Zeyh. 59. 51 
This handsome species seems closely allied to R. compressus, 
Rottb., especially to the larger variety of that plant; but the 
culms and spikelets are not nearly so much compressed. In the 
present plant the whole surface is covered with purplish spots. 
R. 1MPoLITUS, Kunth, En. iii. p. 404; Steud. Synops. ii. p. 253. 
Hab. C. B.S. Ex. eps d. Dröge, nn. 66, 67! Femina latet. 
R. sPINULOsvus, Kunth, En. iii. p. 402. n. 32; Steud. Synops. ii. p. 253. 
n. 43. 
Hab. C. B. S. Ex. sp. s. d. Drége, 37! 
R. comPpressus, Rottb. Descr. et Ic. p. 6, t. 2. f. 2; Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 
2. p. 725. n. 19; Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. p. 185 (excl. syn. R. cuspidati 
Thunb. cui culmus teres); Kunth, En. iii. p. 403. n. 33; Nees ab Esenb. 
Linnea, v. p. 642; Steud. Synops. ii. p. 253. n. 44. 
Var. B. MAJoR, culmo robustiore, spiculis majoribus. 
Hab. C.B.S. Ex. sp.s. d etQ. Eck. et Zeyh. 56. 5!; Drége, 331— 
Var. 8. Locis humidis in planitie Tabulari (April). d. Eck. n. 842!; 
