Restio.] RESTIACEH (Masters). 69 
4096! Var. 8, Tulbagh Div.; near Tulbagh Waterfall, er» 3 ! Worcester 
Div. ; 3 — ts Kloof’, 1000-2000 ft., Drége, 52, g, 58, 3 and 9! 
A variable species differing much in stature and degree of gina ara gh ; the size 
of the spikelets often varies considerably in the same specime 
R, arcuatus (Mast. in DC. Monog. Phan. i. 247) ; stems 2-3 ft. 
high, branching ;_ branchlets sgnap iss apigerps curved, somewhat 
compressed, purple-spotted ; sheaths . long, loosely convolute, 
coriaceous, subulate-mucronate, yalihern Bi the apex; male spikelets 
about 2 in. long, ovate-oblong, ultimately cuneate; spathe flat, 
oblong, mucronate, half the length of the i nr bracts oblong- 
ovate, coriaceous, hyaline at “the margins, shortly mucronate ; 
perianth-segments oblong, obtuse; lateral csatincibi, glabrous ; 
Inner shorter, hyaline 
Coast 
Burchell, 7806 
Perhaps pelhtable to Hypolena. 
EGION: Swellendam Div.; on a mountain peak near Swellendam, 
» do! 
9. R. subverticillatus (Mast. in Journ. Soc. Linn. viii. 227) ; stems 
erect, 3-4 ft. high, stout, terete, minutely purple-spotted, much 
bran ched ; branches verticillate, dense, slender, filiform, spreading ; 
ect about 1 in. long, coriaceous, striate above, membranous, 
reading, acuminate; smaller sheaths foliaceous from beneath a 
twoelobed hyaline apex ; male spikelets 1-6 in a simple spike-like 
cyme, each nearly 3 in. long, erect or spreading, cylindrie-lanceolate, 
straight or curved ; spathe sheath-like, subulate, mucronate, much 
shorter than the spikelet ; bracts oblong, a acute, mucronate, brown ; : 
margins membranous, lacerate; perianth-segments broadly oblong ; 
ia villous- keeled ; female plant like the male, but less 
anched ; spikelets 1-8, sessile or pedunculate, } in. long, elliptic, 
ultimately clavate ; perianth- -segments broader than in the male ; 
ovary rounded, compressed ; capsule obliquely ovate, 1-celled, 1- 
seeded. Mast. in DC. Monog. Phan. i. 248. Ischyrolepis subverti- 
cillat, Steud. Sones By 249, female plant. Restio ferruginosus, 
Kunth, Enum. iii. 393, to the female plant, not of Link. R. 
cusuariniformis, com in gar Willdenovia teres of European 
gardens, not of Thun erg. 
Sourn A ! 
Coast Raton; cinta, "padi : stein Mountains near Bains Kloof, 
1600-2000 ft., Bolus, 4084, 3! Datoits Kloof, 2000-3000 ft., Drage, 1620, 
and 9?! Mountains inh DB sorters. lage mn, 2572! Stellenbosch Div. ; 
Hottentots Holland Mounta 000-3000 ., Zeyh er! Caledon Div.; Nieuw 
Kloof, Houw ie Sialic Derchilt aie, oF ! Genadendal, 2000-3000 ft., 
an 
Variable in Stature and habit. 
. 10. RB. laniger (Kunth, Enum. iii, 386); stems cxspitose, 18-24 
in. high, terete, nthe branched, yellowish ; leaf-sheaths about }.in. 
