92 RESTIACER (Masters). [ Restio. 
leaf-sheaths about 3 in. long, closely SPIN coriaceous, mem- 
branous above, with an appressed foliaceous mucro; male spikelets 
1-5, terminal, sessile or shortly stalked, 2% in. fg elliptic, acute, 
somewhat compressed ; spathe very short ; bracts oblong, acute, 
scarcely mucronulate, striate; perianth- segments acutely pointed ; 
outer lateral conduplicate, with a glabrescent keel; inner hyaline, 
shorter; anthers linear, apiculate; female pee 1-5, at the 
apex of the branches, in erect, racemose cymes, each about 2 in. 
long, elliptic, pedicellate, with a short spathe; bracts oblong: 
lanceolate, coriaceous, greyish-brown, shining, 7-nerved, mucronu- 
late ; perianth-segments somewhat rigid, oblong- lanceolate ; lateral 
conduplicate, carinate; keel ae ioe inner aps shorter, 
unequal, posterior one wider; staminodes 3; ovary roundish, 
truncate, ferruginous, 2. salted; with 3. Sas elie 6 roundish, 
1-2-celled by abortion ; = oblong , ferruginous : pein studded with 
royiies large tubereles. Mast. in DC. Mon mog. Pha i, 289 ; Jowrn. 
mn, Soe. xxi. 576. R fete Nees MSS. in various herbaria. 
Coast Reerion: Cape Div.; Cape Flats, Zeyher, 1128,9! Bolus, 4448, 9! 
Rehmann, 1803, ¢ ! 
va 67. R. egregius (Hochstetter in Flora, 1845, 337 adnot.); stems 
2 ¥ 
closely convolute, membranous above, subulato-mucronate ; 
small — 
spikelets numerous in terminal spicate or panicled cymes; peduncles 
as long as the spikelets, flattened, each nearly 2 in. long, ovoid- 
3 8p 
coriaceous, chestnut-brown ; flowers oblong; outer perianth-segmen 
rigid, oblong, obtuse ; lateral conduplicate, with a villous oF 
glabrescent keel; inner shorter, flat, thickened, and ferruginows 
at the base ; mubhers ripest pistillode 3- styled ; female pe 
solitary, terminal, 13-1} in. long, oblong, acute; spathe short; 
racts In many rows, ovite-dbtong, coriaceous, membranous above, 
prolonged at the a apex irito a lon awn ; aoe stalked, Pig, 
lateral conduplicate, with a .” glabrous. or Dalcacaat keel; inner 
or 
coriaceous, ferruginous, 2-celled by abortion, shorter than_! 
persistent Mega Steud. Synops. ii. 253; Mast. in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. viii. 245 ; DC. Monog. Phan. i. 288. 
Var. 8, nutans (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. viii. 245); male nr ene 
in diffuse aang cymes; peduncles deflexed ; spikelets nodding. Mas in DC. 
Monog. Phan. i. 289. 
Sourn Argrica: without locality, Thom. 632! 906! Var. 8, Z 
Coast REGION : Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots —— MF io ‘gcaionl 
Caledon Div.; mountains near Mie se Zeyher! Nieuw Kloof, Houw Hoek 
Mountains, Burchell, 8071! Var. 8, Cape Div. ; Table Bay, Robertson! False 
Bay, Robertson, g and?! 
| 
z 
i a a id a 
