70 RESTIACEZ (Masters). [ Restio. 
long, closely convolute, enclosing a woolly sheath, coriaceous; 
s membranous; apex mucronate; male spikelets 2 or more 
approximate, each about 3 in. long, erect. or spreading, cylindric, 
acute, straight or gas curved, twice the length of the obtuse, 
sheath-like spathe; bracts ovate-oblong, mucronate ; perianth- 
segments free iitieat ee anthers ovate, apiculate ; 
female spikelets 1-3, like ger: ultimately ovoid; bracts 
oblong-ovate, coriaceous ; margins membranous; apex acuminate- 
aristate ; flowers oblong, ultimately es than the bracts ; perianth- 
segments oblong-lanceolate ; lateral eonduplicate, villous-keeled ; 
inner flat or wrapping r round the style; ovary ovoid; style bifid ; 
cance 1-celled by abortion, oblique; seed grey, pitted. Steud. 
Synops. ii. 250 ; Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soe, viii. 2830; DC. Mong 
Phan. i. 238. 
Coast Reaion: Clanwilliam Div.; Gift Berg, 1500-2500 ft., Drége, 51, 3! 
CrentraL ReEGIon: Prince Albert Div.; near Vrolykheid on the Great 
Zwart Bergen, 5000 ft., Drége, 36, 2 ! 
11. R. distractus (Mast.) ; stem 18-24 in. high, erect, terete, obso- 
letely tubercled, fantigistely branched ; branches slender, spreading ; 
leaf-sheaths about 2 1 in. long, closely convolute, lanceolate, aristate, 
coriaceous, except at the membranous edges, in many cases showing 
disievebite styles 
t Reeion: Graaff Reinet Div.; among rocks at the top of Mount 
Foc aig ‘had Graaff Reinet, 67001 tt, Bolus, 2633, gand@?! ti 
sheaths a eee coriaceous, rare prolon into @ 
long slender awn, rane enclosing a villous scale; male spikelets 
numerous, in a linear cyme, each spikelet about 1 in. long, eylindri¢, 
acute, with a short, sckite spathe at the base ; ‘bracts ovate, mucro- 
nate ; flowers stipitate, ovoid; perianth- segments oblong, acute; 
lateral villous-keeled ; inner smaller, flat; anthers linear-oblong; 
apiculate ; female spikelets solitary or two, 2 in long, ovoid, with 4 
short, bract-like spathe at the base ; bracts oblong, coriaceous; 
flowers raised on short, villous pedicels ; perianth-segments lance0- 
late ; lateral villous-keeled ; inner slightly geen slightly involute 
at the margins; ovary ati tened, i apt unted by a bifid 
style. Steud. Synops. ii. es "Mas t. coer. Linn. Soc. viil- 
231; DC. Monog, Phan. . 240. R. soba: Kunth, Enum. : 
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