Restio. | RESTIACEH (Masters). 79 
oblong, aia subulate, aristate; apex hyaline; male flowers 
l 
lanceo! ate; perianth-segments oblong-lanceolate; lateral condu- 
plicate, acute, se keeled ; anthers linear, a iculate; female 
spikelets 2-4 (rarely 6-8), n terminal spikes, sessile or pedieellate, 
= in. long, cylindrie-lanceolate, ultimately ovoid; bracts ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate, coriaceous; margins membranous; catetiee 
segments Suubes ovary compressed, sage style short, ate 
into two long stigmatic branches. Steu d. Synops. ii. 252; Mast. in 
Journ. Linn. Soe. viii. 241 ; rate Monog. viaiaiies . 263. 
OAST Rvcica:: Clanwilliam Div. nag Sie 100-5000 ce Pe ge, 2498, o! 
Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, 3000-4000 i ae 1626, g! 57,9! pare 
above Wor reester, Rehmann, 256 ,¢d! and without precise ley Zeyher 
Caledon Div. ; Nieuw Kloof, Houw Hook Mountains, Burchell, 8064 ol 
35. R. monanthos (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soe. viii. 238) ; 
18 in. high, slender, terete, sparingly branched ; branches mh Ro 
late; sheaths elosely convolute, coriaceous, mucronato-subulate; apex 
thinner, ferruginous; female spikelets 6-8 i a linear cyme, sub- 
globose, 1-flowered ; bracts ovate-subulate, mucronate, coriaceous ; 
anous ; outer erianth-segments rigid, ate acute ; 
ferruginous, slightly involute; ovary ovate- oblong, com 28 seed 
2-celled ; style bifid ; capsule 2-celled, ie than the persistent 
perianth, Mast. in DC. Monog. Phan. i. 264. 
WeEsTERN ReGion: Little Nemaqual: und; between Buffels River and Pedros 
Kloof, 2000-3000 ft. , Dréye, 2486, 9! 
36. R. capillaris (Kunth, Enum. iii, 405); stems 18 in. high, 
capillary, terete, purple-spotted, b ranched ; sheaths tightly convolute, 
+ In. long, membranous, ferruginous, mucronato- aristate ; awn ap- 
pressed ; apex hyaline; male spikelets numerous, in linear cymes, 
each abo ut {4 in. long, oblong-ovate, 2—4-flowered, with an open 
bract-like spathe at the base; bracts oblong, mucrouato-aristate, 
aline flowers ovate-lanceolate ; perianth-segments 
ng e lateral conduplicate, villous-keeled ; inner 
smaller; anthers linear-oblong ; female spikelets solitary, | flowered ; 
bracts lanceolate, pangote a ; perianth as in the male, but 
“egments more acute; capsule obliquely ovate-oblong, l-celled by 
abortion, ass by the ye aia of the style. Steud. Synops. ii. 
253; Mast. in DC. Mon nog. Phan. 4. 
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Mountains, 1600-2 2000 ft., Bolus, 4095 ! 
x; 
7. R, cincinnatus (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. viii. 240); stem 
ign in. high, terete, much branched from the centre upwards ; 
branchlets very slender, curled, wrinkled and studded with white 
tubercles ; leaf-sheaths nearly 3 in. long, closely tubular, with two 
