80 RESTIACEE (Masters). [ Restio. 
membranous lobes beneath the mucronate apex ; male spikes solitary 
or two, eac about 2 in. long, cylindric-lanceolate ; spathe oblong, 
obtuse, acuminate, half ee nota nt the e spike; bracts similar to the 
spathe, with one appressed flowers oblong; perianth- 
segments rigid, oblong ; sian batical’ villouiakpelad inner thinner, 
shorter ; female spikes 1-2, about 3 in. long, oblong-lanceo- 
late, straight or slightly curved, clavate when in fruit; flower 
solitary; bractsand perianth segments as in the male ; intermediate 
outer segment as well as the 3 inner somewhat involute at the 
margins; ovary globose; capsule obliquely ovate, subcompressed, 
l-celled by abortion, surmounted by the remains of the style. Mast. 
in DC. Monog, Phan. ii. 267. Restio vimineus B, Thunbery Herb. ez 
Mast. in Journ. Linn. Be xiv. 420. 
Coast Region: Cape Div.; mountains near Simons Town, 1000-2000 ft., 
Ecklon and Zeyher! Ceres Di iv.; at the foot of mountains around Ceres; \ 
1800 ft., Bolus, 5489, ¢! 
i 38. R. Ludwigii (Steud. Synopsis, ii. mise stems 8-12 in. high, very 
/ aN branching in the middle; branchlets filiform, covered with 
white tubercles ; leaf-sheaths elosely aebais 4 1-1 in, long, with two 
se la lobes beneath the subulate-mueronate apex; male spikes 
1+2,2 in. long, erect, ovate, 1-2-flowered; spathe ietens ovate-subulate 
mucronate, nearly as long as the spike ; ; bracts loosely imbricate, 
oblong, obtuse, mucronate, tubere outer perianth-segments 
oblong, obtuse; outer lateral villous-keeled ; female spikes 1-2, 
erect, a clavate ; flowers 1-2; pate perianth-segments 
invo 
, hyaline, 
the margins; ovary roundish, compressed ; style dilated at the base; 
capsule chia Lealled by abor ioe Mast. in Journ. Linn. “ee 
viii. 239; DC. Monog. Phan 268. Restio nutans, Steud. 
Flora, 1829, 134, not of Tey, 
ours Arrica: without locality, Ludwig,in Oxford Herbarium! Ecklon, 
83! 85 
Tulbagh Div. ; Bice tact -» MacOwan, Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1672, g! 
Tulbagh, 600 ft., Schlechter, ‘Da $ ! 7518, 2 ! Caledon Div.; mountains near 
Zeer jes Gat, between Lowrys Pass and Palmiet River, 2000-4000 ft., Ecklon and 
cid 
39, R, leptoclados (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. viii. 241 and x. 279); 
stems 2 ft. ‘high, erect, terete, olivaceous, purple-spotted, branching 
towards the middle: branches numerous, verticillate, filiform, ascena- 
ing or spreading ; leaf. sheaths about 1 in. nes closely convolute, 
coriaceous, slenderly aristate, membranous at the apex ; male spikelet 
cooling 1 Jue compressed, 2 + in. long; spathe sheath-like, oped, 
half length of the spikelet; bracts pee ferruginous, 
abamnins above; lower subulato-muc outer perianth- 
segments linear oblong ; lateral céndnplivatey villous-keeled ; ; inner 
3” oblong, hyaline; anthers apiculate; female spikelet solitary, 
