90 RESTIACEX (Masters). [ Restio. 
leaf-sheaths tightly convolute, coriaceous, membranous above, subu- 
ite ucronate ; spikelets 1-4, sessile or shortly stalked ; each about 
fe ovate- oblong ; spathe sheath-like, shorter than the spikelet ; 
mucronate-aristate; oute rianth-segments rather rigid, oblong, 
“on obtuse ; jateiad conduplicate, carinate ; keel glabrous; inner 
shorte yaline, ferruginous at the base ; acing rs_ linear ; 
pacilonian 3- styled. Mast. in DC. Monog g. Phan, i. 
cc mrigeg : hapten Div.; Groen River and Watervals Rive, 2500- 
rege, 92, g! Ceder Bergen at Ezels Bank, 3000-4000 fi , Drége, 
Pind Pa So S! Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, 3000-4000 fe Droge, 
sometimes prolonged into a long, cima leaf; spikelets 1-2, about 
1 in. long, erect, tiie, pe ultimately oblong; spathe mucro- 
nate, shorter than the spikele ; bracts Hithaately loosely imbricate, 
oblong, acute, castaneous, mueronu late ; perianth- MG pelea oblong, 
obtuse ; lateral conduplicate, with a glabrous keel ; inner hyaline; 
staminodes ; ig: trigonous, 2-celled by isha capsule roundish, 
2-celled. Mast. in DC. Monog. Phan. i. 286. 
nN: Worcester ee Dutoits Kloof, 3000-4000 ft., Drage, 82 
partly, 2 ! 91! 1629 partly, 3! 1631b! Ceres Div.; 3 at the foot of mountains 
around Ceres, 1800 ft., Bolus, 5483 ! 
. R. implexus (Mast.); stems 12-18 in. high,-capillary, terete, 
he spotted ; branches curving, intertwining ; 3 leaf-s heaths 4-4} 
long, closely convolute, coriaceous, mem ous above : apex subulate, 
muc cronate ; spikelets solitary, 1 in. long, ob ong : spathe mucronate, 
half the length of the spikelet ; bracts papery, ovate-oblong, acute, 
scarcely ne ete gen SL asinieept eae! linear-oblong, acute, 
cartilaginous, r longer than the sige lateral con- 
duplicate, only slightly vifivtis searcely carinate; inner 3 shorter, 
a ae olate ; ovary compressed, aie seyias. R. perplexus, 
r: pradtis Mast. in DC. rg aba 287. 
Coast Reeron: Swellendam Div. t of the Lange Bergen, near 
Swellendam, Burchell, 7430, ae not F130 a as tet in DC. Monog. Phan. i. 287, 
that number being an "Umbellif 
capillary, arcuate, d; leaf-sheaths 11 in, long, or el nes 
volute, coriaceous, pepe ant the top, ine? spike ets 
mote, ovate-oblong, sessile n. long; pe edunceles 
1-3, re 
louger than the spikelets ; Saale shorter than te spikelet ; bracts 
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