Restio.] RESTIACEH (Masters). 89 
oblong-lanceolate ; yg conduplicate, villous-carinate ; inter 
mediate flat, a s lo ong as, or even slightly longer than the fatal 
ones; inner 3 ane. “hyaline, united at the base; pistillodium 
3-styled ; female plant like the pe: ovary subtrigonous, 2-3-celled ; 
capsule 2-celled. Mast. in DC. Monog. Phan. i 
SouTH AFRICA: without oe Lind, $! 
Coast RrGion: Stellenbosch Diy. ; Hottentots ges Zeyher, 2! 
- : of Helderberg Mountain near Somerset West, 400 ft., Bo — eon ! Caledon 
3 Nieuw Kloof, Houw Hoek Mountains, Burchell, ‘6068 partly ! 
oe 58. R. bifidus Soran in Hoffm. Phytog. Blatter, i. 7); stems 
ceespitose, erect, 12-18 in. high and upwards, slender, terete, simple 
or sparingly branched ; pe ae erect, olivaceous, coarsely tubereled ; 
leat-sheaths 1—3 in. long, tightly eonvolute, coriaceous, striate, me m- 
the spikelet; bracts Toseeky imbricate, spreading, subcoriaceous, 
oblong, cuspidate ; flowers oblong, obtuse ; perianth- segments narrow, 
blunt, in the female plant somewhat broader than in the male; : 
outer lateral conduplicate, villous-carinate; inner 3 hyaline ; stami- 
nodes 3; ovary rounded, subtrigonous ; styles 3. Thunb. in Weber 
and Mohr, Archiv. i.25; Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 87; Mast. in Journ. 
Linn. Soe. xiv. esy- DG. Monbe. Phan, i. 984. RB. va ginatus, 
he Sp. Pl. iv. 719; Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. a Kunth, Enum. 
408 ; Doane in Flora, 1845, 337; Mast. in Journ. Linn. 
Soi: viii. 250, not of Thunb. R. Poets lebkooegepie Kunth, 
Enum. iii. 399 ; Steud. Synops. ii. 252 
Sou m Araica without locality, Drege, 44 partly! Sieber, 221! Burchell, 
5812! tan 
Coast Rr rh ba : Cape Div.; Table Mountain, 3000 ft., Ecklon ! Burchell, 541! 
wo 28! Bolus, 4439, Qf 4440, BY Rehmann, C27) Caledon Div. ; 
Nie "Mountains, Burchell, 8070, 9! mountain near 
Grietjes Gat between Low rys Pass and Palmiet River, Ecklon and Zeyher ! 
9. R. miser (Kunth, Enum. iii. 392); stems 12-18 in. high, 
exspitose, erect, filiform, olivaceous, with white tubercles; leaf- 
sheaths about 2 in, long, closely convolute, coriaceous, striate, mem- 
branous above, filaceo-mucronate ; male spikelets 3-5 approximate, 
b 
ments oblong, obtuse ; lateral conduplicate, villous- carinate ; inner 
lyaline, united at the base; pistillodium minute; female plant 
like the male ; ovary trigonous, surrounded by 3 staminodes. Steud. 
re ii, 259 3 Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soe. viii. 251; DC. Monog. 
1. 285. 
hs 
voli ReGion: Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, Drége, 1627, g and 9! 
60. B. sonderianus (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soe. viii. 252) ; stems 
ufted, ereet, very slender, simple, terete, puncticulate, haa 
