Restio.| RESTIACEE (Masters). 87 
Onzer, 1500-2000 ft., Drege, 37 partly, 2 ! Var. y, Cape Div.; Table Mountain, 
Ecklon, 840! 846! Milne, 218! MacGillivray, 436 ! 
Very variable in stature and in the number of the spikelets. 
yellow; spathe lanceolate, acuminate, membranous at the edges, 
i : : 
lateral conduplicate, only slightly keeled, glabrescent; inner 
narrower; anthers linear, apiculate; staminodes 3, ovary ovoid- 
oblong or compressed; styles 3; fruit not seen. R&R. festuce- 
formis, Nees in herb. Sonder! Mast. in DC. Monog. Phan. i. 281. 
R. ischeemoides, Nees MSS. in various herbaria. 
T Region: Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek, 2600 ft., Schlechter, 7788, g ! 
Zwartberg, near Caledon, Ecklon and Zeyher, g and 9! mountain near Grietjes 
Gat, between Lowrys Pass and Palmiet River, Ecklon and Zeyher ? 
A 58. R. subtilis (Nees ex Mast. in Journ, Linn. Soe. viii. 251); stems 
18 in. high, very slender, filiform, subcompressed, sparingly 
branched, wrinkled, purple-spotted; Jleaf-sheaths about } in, long, 
closely convolute, ferruginous, paler and thinner above, prolonged 
into a short appressed mucro; male and female spikelets similar, 
numerous, loosely arranged in long, loose. linear cymes, sessile, or on 
long, slender stalks, each spikelet about 1 line long or less, oblong- 
ovoid; spathe open, mucronate, half the length of the spikelet ; bracts 
imbricate, ovate, acute, coriaceous, thinner at the margins, shortly 
mucronate; flowers 2-3, ovoid, compressed ; perianth-segments 
oblong, acute ; lateral conduplicate, scarcely keeled, glabrous; 
inner flat, shorter ; pistillode 3-styled ; capsule 3-lobed, 3-celled ; 
seeds grey, Mast. in DC. Monog. Phan. i. 282. 
Coast Reston: Caledon Div., mountain near Grietjes Gat, between Lowrys 
Pass and Palmiet River, Ecklon and Zeyher, ¢ and 9. 
Bites: 
54. R. subulatus (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. viii. 248); stems 
decumbent, 8-10 in. high, much branched ; leaf-sheaths closely 
’ n i ‘ 
long; bracts loosely imbricate, oblong, coriaceous, mucronate ; 
pee perianth-segments rigid, oblong, acute ; lateral _conduplicate, 
Villous-carinate ; inner smaller, hyaline ; pistillode minute; stami- 
