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convolute, coriaceous, lacerateemembranous at the apex; male 
spikelets | numerous, in erect, linear, flexuose cymes, each spikelet 
about } in. long, oblong, acute, with an oblong, acuminate, rather 
open spathe at the base; bracts closely overlapping, oblong, obtuse, 
convex, subcarinate ; outer perianth-segments unequal, oblong, obtuse ; 
lateral villous-carinate ; intermediate thinner, flat; inner subequal, 
shorter than the outer; anthers apiculate, purplish ; pistillode 
minute; female spikelets many-flowered ; perianth as in the male; 
ovary oblong, truncate, purplish, surmounted by 3 styles and 
encircled at the base by 3 staminodes; eapsule 1-celled by abortion, 
obliquely ovoid; seed 3-angled, grey, purple-spotted. Mast, 1 
DC. Monog. Phan. i. 274. 
Coasr Reeion: Caledon Diy. ; mountain ridges between Babylons Tower and 
Caledon, 1000-2000 ft., Ecklon and Zeyher! Not in Kew Herbarium, 
mately deciduous mucro ; male spikelets 8-10, arranged in pairs on 
‘in erect, distichous, flexuose, linear cyme ; spikelets about 1 in. long, 
ovoid, acute ; spathe oblong, obtuse, cuspidate, one-third shorter than 
the spikelet ; bracts ovate, subulate, mucronate, coriaceous, ferru- 
ginous ; margins and upper portion dull brown pitted ; flowers ovate 
oblong; perianth-segments rigid, oblong, acute; lateral pater” 
Coast Region: Cape Div.; mouxtains near Simons Town, Zeyher, d! Cape 
Flats, Bolus, 4452, 9! 
46; RB: hifevous (Nees ex Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vill. 247 
partly); stems 2-3 ft. high, terete, slightly branched, olivaceous, with 
vircular white spots ; leaf-sheaths about 1 in. long, closely eonvolute, 
Ne pitted near the top and with a narrow, whitish, deciduous 
Margin beneath the short muero; nerves whitish ; outer perianth- 
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