66 RESTIACEZ (Masters). [Restio. 
Stems branched ; branches pearnict sheaths close ; 
male spikelets numerous, nicled ; bracts oblong: 
ovate ; female unknown . (78) sejunctus. 
Stems branched ; iateucetbe as “convolute, pro- 
longe ai org thick lea fy gp — spikelets 
in 1, linear nite vary by a m 2- 
Jobe . (79) protractus. 
ms branching, slender ; sheaths close ; male le spike- 
co panicled, oblong ; bracts oblong... . (80) patens. 
1. R. pauciflorus (Poir. Encycl. vi. 168); stems cylindric, 
slender, puberulous, branched ; ire slender, subflexuose, leafy ; 
sheaths oval, membranous, acuminate; male spikelets clustered, 
sessile or stalked, ovate, obtuse ; sail short ; bracts ovate obtuse; 
anthers oblong obtuse. Kunth, Enum. iii. ‘412 ; Steud. Synops. 
ii, 254; Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. viii. 225; DC. Monog. Phan. 
i. 235. 
Sourn AFRICA: without locality, Poiret. 
A species of which I have seen no specimen. 
cuspidatus (Thunb. in Hoffm, Phytog. Blatter, i. 8) ; 
e r 
oe at the ends of the branches, each about i in. 
soe eel or oblong-acute, straight or curved, with a short 
x borat e spathe at the base; bracts oblong, acuminate, aristate ; 
awn spreading ; flowers shorter than the bracts, ovate-lanceolate ; 
$ in. long, 
exceeding the ovate-lanceolate, pedicellate flowers; ovary oblong, 
flattened, 2-celled ; style single dividing into two stigmatic branches ; 
capsule 2-celled, dehiscing at the margins; seeds oblong-obtuse, 
trigonous ; testa ’ white, thickly spotted with purple. Thunb. 1 
Weber and Mohr, Archiv. i. 26; Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 87 ; Thunb. 
Herb. partly, ex Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soe. xiv. 418 ; Mast. in 
DC. Monog. Phan, i.-.233, Restio squarrosus, Spreng. Syst. oe i. 
te not of 7 Phived Nees in Linnea, v. 643 ; Steudel in Flora; 1 
33. R. lucceanus, Kunth, our iii, 385, male pf. R. Oe a 
Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. viii. 224. 
isi ar without Bee: Bergius! Harvey, 388 b, 3! Sieber, o ! 
Drége, 4 
ptt ak Al Cape Div.; Cape Flats, Burchell, 39/1, g ! 209, g¢ ! Bolus. 
4453, ¢ ! Lion i a ‘Berihe il, 120, 3! Table a Necati ins Miine, 223, 3! 
Bolus, 2885, 3 ! Ecklon, 848, 3! M Owan, Herb. Aust. Afr. 1565, g ! Camps 
Bay, Burchell, 854! Devils Mountain, Bolus, 4463, ¥ Paarl Div. 
Paarl and Lady Grey Railway Bridge, Drage, 48 partly ! Ceres Div. ; ns 
near Ceres, 1800 ft., Bolus, 5482, 3 ! Worcester Div., Zeyher, 2 ! Caledon Div. ; 
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