Restio.] RESTIACEZ (Masters). 73 
acuminate ; perianth-segments rather rigid, oblong, obtuse ; lateral 
conduplicate, villous-keeled; female spikelets 2- sessile or 
pedunculate, each } in. long, ovate- oblong ; bracts acuminate ; ovary, 
oblong ; style bifid. Steud. CuneRs. li, 251; Mast. in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. viii. 231; DC. Monog. Phan. 1. 
Sourn ie: without docasiy fae 87! 
WESTERN paca Little Namaqualand; Kamies Bergen, 3000-4000 Re 
Drége, 2476, g and 3! 
9. R. intermedius (Kunth, Enum. iii. 388) ; stems erect, 2-3 tt, 
high, slender, branched above the wai terete, olive-colouepd: 
faintly tubercled ; leaf-sheaths about + long, closely convolute, 
coriaceous, subu ate, ee ; Aly epikelota 5-9 in linear, 
distichous spicate cymes, 2 in. long; each spikelet 1} in. long 
cylindric, acute, straight or rete with a bract-like spathe at me 
base; bracts ovate mucronate; flowers ovate-lanceolate, com 
pressed ; perian th-segments rigid, oblong-lanceolate ; outer lateral 
conduplicate, villous-keeled ; inner smaller ; anthers oblong, apicu- 
late; female spikelets in an erect, papanerss cyme, about 1 in. 
SoutH aie {cA : without locality, apie s* g ! 2470, 3! 
Coast ahi Clanwilliam Div.; between Juckhals River and Klip Seay 
Drege, » 2475, da nd 9! Worcester Div.; 3 vaetintaie above Worcester, Rehman 
562, g! 
Pit R. Sieberi (Kunth, Enum. iii. 387); stems 12-18 in. high 
terete, branched, olive-coloured, puncticulate ; leaf-sheaths clgsalt 
convo ae coriaceous, scarious at the margins, mucronate-aristate ; 
male spikelets 1-5, each % in. long, erect or spreading, straight or 
slightly eiibvad, cylindric, acute, with a sheath-like, long-awned 
spathe at the base ; bracts ovate-oblong, coriaceous, mucronate ; 
flowers oblong; perianth- segments oblong, obtuse ; lateral villous. 
smaller, flat; female spikes 1-2, ovate, _Seabe, about > in. long ; 
bracts oblong-ovate, subulate, mucronate ovary ovoid; styles 2; 
capsule obliquely ovoid, 1-celled by eboction + seed large, grey, 
tuberculate. Steud. Syno mops. ii. 250; Mast. in ’ Journ. Linn. baa 
Vili. 235; DC. Monog. Phan. i. 244. 
nine ise, heme _— , Sieber, 228, g ! Drége, 80, 9! 9617, 3! ! 
. Coast Regron : Cap ; Ta ti @ Mountain, Burchell, 536, ¢ ! pcan 
Div. ;, Drakenstein Mountains, near Bains poe 1600-2000 ft., Bolus, 4090, ,. 
40908, 2! 4104, 9 ! Dutoits Kloof, 1000-25 00 ft., Drage, 1621, J ! 9615, 9 | 
ENTRAL REGION: Graaff Reinet Div. ; summit t of Roudereld Berg, Sheeuw 
Berg Range, 5500 ft., Bolus, 2584, @ ! 
21. R. triflorus (Rottboell, Descr. et Icon. 3, t. 2, fig. 2); stems 
cwspitose; sterile much branched, diffuse, leaf- -bearing ; fertile 
