74 RESTIACEZE (Masters). [ Restio. 
ft. long, less branched, erect, terete, slender, rather coarsely 
tubercled; sheaths about + in. long, coriaceous, striate above, mem- 
ranous, mucronate-acuminate ; sheaths of the sterile branches 
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lanceolate ; outer perianth- segments ances pointed; kee 
villous; inner subequal, smaller; anthers linear-oblong, apiculate ; 
female spikelets 2-3, each about 2 Lin. tat, oblong, acute, many- 
flowered ; bracts and ’perianth as in the male; ovary compressed, 
orbicular, Q-lobed ; style terete, dividing into two branches. 
hund. Diss. 16; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. i. 86; Spreng. Syst. 
Veg. i. 185; Kunth, Enum. iii. 391, female pl. ; Mast. in Journ. 
Linn. Soe. viii. 234; DC. Monog. Phan. 249. R. dichotomus, 
Thunb. var. B, Nees in Linnea, v. 641. R. Kunthii, Steud. Synops. 
ii. 251. 
Coast ieeiowi yew Div. ; Devils iar haa. 845, 9 ! are Bay, 
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oek, Burchell, 7926, g ! between Donker Hoek and Houw Hoek Mountains, 
Burchell, 8017, ¢ ! Riversdale Div.; hills amd Zoetemelks Dive: Burchell, 
6800, g ! Alexandria Div. ; Addo, Drise, 78 
e plant collected on Devils Mountain by Ecklon (No. 845), gen Ags 
collected at Addo by Drége (No. 78), are in every respect sein = aud t 
probably some error as to the locality given by Drdge.—N. E. n.] 
22. R. Helene (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. viii. 233); s 
12-18 in. high, erect from a decumbent base, terete, branched ie 
the base; branches compressed, olivaceous, with white tubercles, 
ultimate benches slender, flexuose, ascending ; sheaths elliptic, 
cuspidate, coriaceous ; margin ; 
membranous at the foliaceo-mucronate apex ; "male spikelets numerous, 
in linear cymes, each about 2 in. long, cylindric, acute ; spathe flat, 
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coriaceous, brown; margins membranous; flowers oblong, obtuse; 
 giicrs pao rigs oblong, obtuse ; lateral conduplicate, villous- 
keeled; inner smaller, hyaline; female spikelets solitary, % in- 
long, eylindrie- oblong, many-flowered; perianth-segments more 
acute than in the male; ovary rounded; styles 2. Mast. in DC. 
Monog. Phan. i. 249. 
Coast Region: Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, 1000-2000 ft.,,Drége, 1616, 
3! 1618, 3! 
23. R. pycnostachyus (Mast. in Journ. ep Soc. viii. 232) 5 
stems cespitose, erect, terete; sterile mu branched, _ leaf- 
bearing; fertile long, faintly ‘puncticulate ; “hitgeagta + in. 
long and upwards, elliptic, coriaceous, membranous at the apex, 
aristate ; male spikelets numerous, in a dense, broad, paniculate 
