84 RESTIACEZ ke [ Restio. 
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flowered, arran saad in ‘iiteee mes ; bracts as in the male, but with 
the white margin less obvious ; perianth-segments oblong, obtuse ; 
— villous-carinate ; stam inodes 3; ovary oblong, 3-styled. 
Mast. in DC. Monog. Phan. i 275, 
orebon Arrica: without locality, Thom, 632, 2! 
Reeion: Cape Div.; Cape Flats, Zeyher, 1011, g! Caledon Div.; 
ice Kloof, Houw Hoek Mountains, Burchell, 8119, ¢! 
. R. preacutus (Mast.); stems 2-3 ft. high, a dark olive, 
ovoid, acute, subtended by a bract-like spathe, 4 shorter than the 
spikelet ; bracts loosely imbricate, coriaceous, pitted near the apex ; 
flowers pedicellate ; onter perianth-segments rigid, lanceolate, acute ; 
lateral villous-carinate; intermediate flat, cartilaginous, thickened 
near the base; inner slightly shorter than the 
outer, lanceolate, thickened at the base; female inflorescence as 
the male ; spikelets erect, ovoid, acute, seareely + in. long ; poet 
on a short, villous pedicel; perianth-segments very acute; 
nodes 3 ; Merce: up-shaped ; ovary oblong; styles 3; capsule 2- called 
by aborti 
ga ast REecion: Clanwilliam Div.; Gift Berg, Drége, 88, 9! Worcester 
- ata * Kloof, ee 46, 9! 1608 partly, g and 9! according to Drége, 
- p. 82, but t the latter vied a ia in Caledon Div. at Genadendal, 
Sante yg to Drage’ s own label at Lubec 
ided by myself and ats wit ‘ R. fureatus, from which it may be 
tinned by its ineas-blong spikelets, its very acute perianth-segments, and 
e presence of a 
48. R. triticeus (Rottboell, Progr. 11); stems tufted, erect, 
18-24 in. high, slightly branched, olive-coloured, coarsely tubercled 
and white-spotted ; leaf-bearing branches shorter, much papain 
ultimate branches filiform, spreading ; oe about + long; 
closely convolute, coriaceous, with two deep _ ultimately. 
are lobes beneath the svbulte-macronat apex ; in the smaller 
eaths mucro is prolonged into a small eisai leaf ; male 
aad ape in number from 2-9, pv rect, spicate cymes, each 
spikelet t about + — long esittalsie daa da with a short sheath- 
ing tgs at the base; bracts oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous, ferru- 
ginous, adr muero onate; flowers oblong, shortly stalked ; 
zane pata oblong, obtuse; outer lateral narrow, boat- 
shaped, villous-carinate ; cent flat; inner 3 shorter, thinner, more 
or less concrescent at the base ; anthers chestnut-coloured, with white 
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