Restio.] RESTIACEZ (Masters). : 77 
29. R. macer (Kunth, Enum. iii. 390) ; stems cespitose, 12-18 in. 
high, slender, erect, branching from below the middle; branches 
ascending, terete, yellowish, with white tubercles; sterile branches 
shorter, more branched ; sheaths about 3 in. long, elosely convolute, 
mucronate, coriaceous, membranous and lacerate above; mucro 
sometimes leafy ; male spikelets 4-9 in linear erect cymes; spathe 
ovary rounded, 2-celled; style bifid; capsule ovoid, bilocular. 
Steud. Synops. ii. 251; Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. viii. 235 5 
DC. Monog. Phan. i, 251. R. divaricatus, Mast. in Journ. Linn. 
Soe. viii. 236. x 
Coast Region: Clanwilliam Div.; near Groene River and Watervals River, 
2500-3000 ft., Drége, 2487, ¢! Tulbagh Div.; near Tulbagh Waterfall, Ecklon 
and Zeyher, 8! Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, 3 4 ft , Drége, 1631! 
Swellendam Div. ; right bank of the Zonder Einde River, Burchell, 7520, 2! . 
Western Region: Little Namaqualand ; Kamies Bergen, Drége, 2490! 
perianth ; ovary ovoid, wrapped round by the bract ; styles: 2. 
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Steud. Synops. ii, 252; Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soe. viii. 239; 
DC. Monog. Phan. i. 261. 
WESTERN Div.; Little Namaqualand; Kamies Bergen, near Lily ekgotes 
4000-5000 ft., Drége, 2494, g and ? ! 
shorter than the spikelet ; 
papery, ferruginous ; flowers ovate-lanceolate, shortly stalked ; outer 
perianth-segments submembranous, oblong, mucronulate ; latera 
