78 RESTIACEE (Masters). [ Restio. 
paudnplinatt with a glabrous keel; inner shorter and thinner than 
the anthers oblong, apiculate. Steud. Synops. ii. 25 
pig in tag Linn. Soe. viii. 239; DC. Monog. Phan, i. 265. 
Coast Recton: Paarl Div.; French Hoek Mountains, 1000-2000 ft., Drége, 
2021 partly, ¢! 
A cellular cushion or pad occurs in the axils of the pedicels, and the leaf is 
also remarkable in the genus for its development. 
32. R. leptostachyus (Kunth, Enum. iii. 407); stems 18 in. 
high, decumbent, trailing, very slender, capillary, sparingly branched ; 
branches terete, white-tubercled ; leaf-sheaths s closely Saeergaanie in. 
long, coriaceous, striate, subu lat te, mucr ate ; ucro a ssed ; 
apex two-lobed, hyaline; male spikelets 2-5, in linear, distichous, 
lateral villous-keeled; inner shorter; anthers linear, apiculate; 
female spikelets like the male, 2-flowered; bracts decurrent at 
the margins; ovary shortly stalked, subclavate, 2-celled; styles 2; 
capsule obliquely elliptic, 1- celled by abortion, shorter than 
pre persistent perianth, Steud. Synops. ii. 254; Mast. in Journ. 
n. Soc. viii. 237; DC. Monog. Phan. i. 262. 
ae Arrica; without locality, Drége, 12, 4 and 9! 
33. R. depauperatus (Kunth, Enum. iii. 405); stems filiform. 
much branched ; branches somewhat compressed, puncticulate, pur rple- 
spotted ; ultimate branchlets curved; leaf-sheaths about 1 in. long, 
closely convolute, coriaceous, striate, subulate-mucronate ; apex 
lets , in linear cymes, each spikelet 
seeled; inner subequal, shorter than the outer; anthers linear- 
oblong, apiculate ; female spikelets 1-2-flowered ; perianth as in the 
male ; staminodes 3, liguliform; ovary 2- celled ; styles distinet; 
capsule somewhat compressed, roundish, surmounted by the remains 
uA hig styles. Steud. Synops. ii. 253 ; Mast. in DO. Monog. Phan. i. 
mes t REGION: ta Div.; French Hoek Mcutins, 1000-2000 ft., Drege, 
22 ache. a oy 2. Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, 2000-4000 tt., Drége: 
!10,¢! and 9?! 
> 34. R. curviramis (Kunth, Enum. iii 395); stems 6-12 in. high, 
ue slender, branching; branches lage flexuose, ascending, 
puncticulate ; leaf-sheaths about $ long, closely convolute, 
coriaceous, su ate, mucronate ; eee 2. lobed, membranous ; male 
spikelets numerous, ‘distant, in linear cymes, each spikelet about 2 2 in. 
long, cylindric-lanceolate, sessile or pedicellate, sometimes crowded ; 
spathe sheath-like, open, half the length of the spikelet ; bracts 
