82 RESTIACER (Masters). [ Restio. 
long, closely convolute, pale greenish-yellow, coriaceous, striated, 
with an appressed mucro at the apex; leafy stems shorter, m much 
branched ; ultimate branchlets filiform, curved; leaf-sheaths about 
2 in. long, with two deep hyaline lobes beneath the terminal, 
oblong, acute; inner shorter, hyaline; anthers purplish ; rudi- 
ee ee halen minute, 3-lobed; female plant and inflorescence 
male; spikelets many-flowered; staminodes 3; ovary 
2 sided, ey brown, white at the angles ; styles 3, distinct ; "capsule 
2- or even I-celled by abortion. Thur rb, Prod.15; Fl. Cap. ¢ ed. 
Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 725 ; Nees in Linnea, v. 642; Kunth, Enum. jil. 
401; Steud, Synops. ii. 253; Mast. in Journ. Linn. Sve. viii. 245. 
Soura “ina e without locality, Sieber, 118, 9! Thunberg! Massun! 
Coast aan N: Cape D ate reiges Sedan ae ! False Prot lt Robertson 
between Roudebosch and a Bay, art Mountain, 
500 {t., Bolus, 4460, f eel. gq! i: Q on ple sfountain, ea Llivray, 
435! Krauss ; vic cinity of Cape Town, Burchell, 461! 499! e Flats near 
a Burchell. 186! Knysna Div.; on bills near Mente, Burchell, 
463, 2! 
ng white balsas Jeaf-sheaths ie es long, — cae 
oblong, obtuse, }—} in, 
perianth as in the male; staminodes 3; ovary roundish, deel 
chestnut-coloured ; eee: '2-eelled by abortion, Steud. Synops. Us 
253; Mast. in Jow nn. Soe, viii, 242; DC. Monog. Phan. 
i. 278, Restio x adits ag Kunth, Enum, iii. 397. 
Coast Recion: Clanwilliam Diy.; ba Mew! Ezels Bank and Dwars ys 
ope B; ir 35, ¢! mH Flats her, 2! Burchell, 188, ¢ and ¢! 
Olu 
2888, 2 ! 4732, ¢! 4760, 9! “Eekion, 564! 564b! 563! 566! oe 
Fave, Wright! Wyuberg, Ecklon, 91 
44. R. sme (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. viii. 246) ; a tall-grow 
ing species with terete stems, and subcompressed branches of a : dee? a 
olive a with white spots ; leaf-sheaths about 2 in. long, closely — 
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