Restio.] RESTIACEH (Masters). 91 
loosely imbricate, broadly ovate-acute, sharply sMipaenien, coriaceous, 
r lateral 
hyaline at the margins; perianth-segments rigid; ou ateral con- 
duplicate, villous, carinate ; f median flat, with the sees part of the 
midrib villous; inner orter, yaline ; anthers linear-oblong, 
muticous ;  pistillode ‘iwi female plant like the male; stami- 
nodes 3 ; ovary rounded, 9-celled by abortion ; styles 2-3. Steud. 
Synops. ii. 253 ; Mast. in DC. Monog. Phan. i. 286. R. vimineus, 
Thunb. Herb. ex Mast. in Journ. Lin: Soc. xiv. 420. 
Soutn AFRICA: without locality, Drége, 8! 
Ouxen ReGiIon : Cape Div.; Table Mountain, oes 339a, ¢! Cooper, 3380! 
Bolus, 2886! 
R. Harveii (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. viii. 253, t. 15) ; 
ene creeping; stems slender, erect, 2-6 in. high, branching above 
the middle; branches curved, spreading, olivaceous, studded with 
small, whitish tubercles ; leaf-sheaths 2 1-1 in, long, closely convolute, 
coriaceous, membranous. at the upper margins, subulato-mucronate ; 
spikes solitary, oblong-euneate, 2-flowered, about 1 line long; spathe 
oblong, acute, shortly mucronate ; bracts spreading, oblong, shortly 
thinner, with the midrib villosulous ; ones 3; ovary oe 
pe aL anges, 2-celled ; stigmas 3. Mast. in DC. Mcnog. Phan. 
1, 287, 
Coast Reaton : near Cape Town, Harvey, 9! in Dublin Herbarium. 
perianth- akighhiits ) bibs acute ; Tutinad conduplicate, ties 
carinate ; intermediate flat ; inner shorter, thinner; anthers linear- 
oblong ;  pistillode none ; ; female spikelets 1-3, terminal, erect, 
oblong-ovate, 1-2 in, on ng; spathe half the length of the spikelet ; 
bracts oblong, mucronate, purplish-brown ; perianth as in the male ; 
ovary 3-celled; styles 3; capsule 2-lobed, 2-celled by hae 
Poona —- than the persistent perianth. Mast. in DC. Mon 
are tains, Bur- 
ens dna pipers Div.; Nieuw Kloof, Houw Hoek Moun ain 
Burchell also collected R. purpurascens under the same number. 
4 an 66. R. bigeminus (Nees ex Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soe. viii. 246) ; 
1 t. high, tufted, terete, slender, olivaceous, minutely punticu- 
ate, branching t towards the middle ; branches compressed, ascending ; 
