Restio.] RESTIACEZ (Masters). 85 
tubercles ; capa with 3 Piensa styles; female inflorescence 
and peria anth a in the male; staminodes 3; ovary ovoid, 3-styled ; 
capsule phbaue 2- or even 1-celled by abortion; seeds re a 
studded with large white tubercles, Rottboell, Descr. et 7, 
t.3, f. 1; Thunberg, Diss. 17; Fl. Cap., ed. Schult. 87; Willd. 
Sp. Plané. iv. 726; Sprengel, Syst. Veg. a 185 ; Nees in "Linnea, 
v. 640, partly ; ‘Mast in Journ. Linn. Soc. viii. 243 ; DG. 
Monog. Fas i. 277. R. dichotomus, Thunberg Herb. ! ex Mast. 
in Journ. Linn. Soe. xiv. 420; Thunb. Diss. 314. R. tri 
B gracilis, Nees ex Drége in Linnea, xx. 241. Calopsis triticea, 
m. ili, 424; Steud. Synops. ii. 257. R. glumaceus, 
Klotesch in several hei ‘bar ria 
Sou RICA: without Locality, Thom, 1026, ¢! Drege, 85! 9451, 3! 
protcriig or Sieber, 112 2,9! 
Ast ReGion: Cape Div.; False Bay, bettie hoagie Mountain, 5000 f 
Kah 4464, 2! Rehman, 929 | Table Mountain, Drége, 200, 3! hills and tat 
ape Tow Saerarig Pe Zeyher, 1742, zt "Caledon Div. 3; Donk 
Hoek Mewihdin. Bur chell 5,9! 
Very variable in stature an in number of spikelets. 
49. R. pannosus (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. viii. 244); stems 
2-3 ft. high, oe slightly tiedncheds ae tubereled, olivaceous ; 
ceria about 1 in, ; ene, close ly conv iat coriaceous, dividing 
is artnet near the shortly mucronate Ra: sweei: ey 
re) 
or less eoncrescent at the base; anthers linear, ferruginous; 
Pistillode minute; female plant, inflorescence and perianth nearly 
as in the male; ovary oblong-ovoid, sae eta - or by abortion 
2-1- celled ; sexninodes Mast. in DC. . Phan, i. 278. 
S tities, Thunb. Herb. 3 ex Mast. in penis "Linn. Soe. xiv. 
18. 
South Arrica: without locality, Thom, 913, 3! 
Coast Rucion: Cape Div. ; Cape Flats, Ecklon, 50,9! Ecklon and Zeyher! 
Thunberg, 3! False ie, Robertso 
50. R. multiflorus (Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 187); stems 2-3 ft. 
high, terete, branched - ; branches flabellate ; ; ultimate branchlets 
fil liform, olivaceous, wrinkled, white-spotted ; leaf-sheaths 3-1 in 
long, closely convolute, coriaceous below, deeply hyaline. ire 
lacerate ; apex prolonged into a slender filiform mucro ; male spi elets 
in linear, panicled cymes; each spikelet about 1 in. long, 
Ovate-oblong ; spathe sheath-like, open, half the length of the 
spikelet; bracts co coriaceous, ovate, subulate-mucronate ; outer Peaatat 
ents oblong, acute; lateral conduplicate, villous-carinate 
