88 RESTIACER (Masters). [ Restio. 
nodes 3 ; capsule ovoid, hae IP 2-celled, coriaceous, ferruginous, 
Mast. in De. Monog. Pha 281. 
Coast Rreron: Caledon Div.; can nag near Caledon, 1000-2000 ft., 
Ecklon and Seshee' Not j in Kew Herbariu 
55. R. strobilifer (Kunth, aoe iii. 398) ; stems ceespitose, 2-3 ft. 
high, erect, terete, sparingly nched, dark olive, petty speckled ; 
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mucro deciduous; male and tigi: ottelete karte solitary or twin, 
each about + in. tong, ovoid or subg Jobe Se ; sate obovate, mucro- 
flowers ong, obtuse, ed; perianth-segments oblong, fae ; 
ter lateral rigid, conduplicate, villous-carinate; intermediate 
flattish, with a ferruginous midrib; inner 3 smaller, thinner, flat; 
pistillode 3-styled; female flowers stalked; stalk short, with a 
warty swelling at the apex [?always]; perianth as in the male; 
staminodes liguliform ; capsule bilocular, suborbicular, epee ek 
seed oblong, obtuse, trigonous blackish. Steud. Synops. ii. 252 
Mast. in DC. han. i. 282. 
Coast RrGion: Clana Div. ; Ceder Bergen, at Ezels Bank, 3000-4000 
ft.; Drege, 2474, g and 9! St ellenbosch Div.; Sneeuw Kop, Wallich/ Ceres 
Div. ; at the foot of mountains around Ceres, 1800 ft., Bolus, 5484! 
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aft 56. R. pachystachyus (Kunth, Enum. iii. 399); stems cespitose, 
2-3 ft. high, erect, terete, slightly branched, olivaceous, with white 
tubercles ; leaf-sheaths closely convolute, coriaceous, 7—} in. long, 
nervose-striate, white-spotted ; m s membranous; apex acuml- 
nate, prolonged ; spikelets ee sessile or stalked, about 2 in. long, 
ylindric, acute, becoming ovoid-acute ; dicel a 
spikelet ; spathe half the length of the spikelet, sheath- like, with a 
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membranou margins, sharply acuminate; flowers shortly 
pedicellate, ovoid, convex; outer perianth-segments r rigid, oblong, 
acute ; lateral conduplicate, villous-earinate ; inner shorter, thinner ; 
ovary ro omer 2-celled by abortion; styles 3. Steud. Synops. 
ii. 252 ; ‘Mas nm DC. Monog. Phan. i. 383. 
EGION : " Sgn m Div.; Wupperthal, 1500-2000 ft., Drége, 43, ¢ ! 
Worcester Div. rakenstein Moopiaine. near "Bains Kloof, 1600-2000 ft. 
Bolus, 4093, 2 .: 
57. R. purpurascens (Nees ex Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soe. 
viii. 249); stems erect, 2-3 ft. high, terete, aca Ph branched ; 
branches ascending, olivaceous, densely covered with flattened, dise- 
like, white tubercles; leaf-sheaths 13 in. ois, ately convolute, 
coriaceous, membranous hore: péolongel at the apex into 
long, leafy point; spikelets 2-5, in linear, erect cymes, sessile 
or pedicellate, about 1 in. long; spathe as long as the spikelet, with 
a long, leafy, curved mucro ; bracts oblong, acute ; ; perianth-segments 
