Restio.} RESTIACEE (Masters). 93 
68. R. obtusissimus (Steud. Synops. ii. 252); stems 2 ft. high, 
erect, terete, unbranched, olivaceous, with minute white spots ; leaf. 
sheaths about 1 in. long, tightly convolute, coriaceous, with a thinner 
margin, subulate, mucronate ; male spikelets 1-2-3 in linear eymes, 
ined 
segments anthers ovato-mucronate. Mast. in DC. Monog. Phan. i. 
296. R. digitatus, Nees in Linnea, v. as: ny Bri. iti. 410 ; 
Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. viii, 228, not of ‘Thunb 
South ArRica: without locality, Drége, 22! Ecklon and Zeyher, Pi 
Coast Reaion : Cape Div.; Table Mountain, 1000 ft., MacOwan, b. Aust.- 
Afr., 1673! anh ae Div.; Hottentots Holland, Zeyher! Beklon, 18! 
Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 8196! Schlechter 7221! Caledon Div.; Nieuw Kloof, 
Houw Hoek Mountains, Burche ll, 8072 
This may prove to be a species of Pivotienis 
69. R. saroclados (Mast. in DO. Monog. Phan. i. 291); stems 
cespitose, erect, 18 in. high, terete, much branched ; branches erecto- 
patent, purple- mottled ; leaf-sheaths about 4% in. long, slightly convo- 
ae coriaceous, striate, with a long leafy acumen between two 
membranous lobes ; female spikes solitary, 8-] in. long, cylindric, 
lanceolate, finally " compressed, wedge-shaped ; spathe lanceolate, 
coriaceous, striate, rather shorter than the spikelet ; bracts ulti- 
mately sprea ing, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, decurrent at the 
base ; perianth- -segments oblong, rather obtuse ; tateral conduplicate, 
Villous-carinate ; inner smaller, thinner, involute at the mar, rgins ; 
a roundish, with 3 styles ; capsule orbicular, compressed, 2-celled 
abortion, surmounted by the remains of the styles. 
eee Rreton: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Burchell, 572, 9! 605, ?! 
- R. Rhodocoma (Mast. in Journ. Linn, Soc. x. 275) ; stems 
ereet, stout, terete, 3-4 ft. high, olivaceous, puncticulate, subverti- 
cillutely and repeatedly branching; ultim ~ branchlets filiform, 
rather compr essed, erecto- grams ; lower sterile; upper spike- 
bearin: ring ; si oe ths 1-12 in. long, ighily pace elliptic, 
acuminate, coriaceous, nthinte, phen ent; upper margins deeply 
hyaline ; > apex prolo onged into a long, ultimately deciduous awn ; 
Smaller sri hs more or less felasosua’ ; male spikelets numerous, in 
tin ymes, rarely solitary or two, usually forming a ae erect or 
tony fowe '; Spathe oblong, coriaceous, membranous _ hear the 
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