94 RESTIACEE (Masters). [ Restio. 
anthers linear-oblong; female spikelets and bracts as in the male ; 
flower solitary, quasi-terminal, longer than the bract; staal 
strap-shaped ; ovary rounded, 3-celled ; styles 3 ; capsule coriaceous, 
3-lobed, 3-celled; sceds large, trigonous. n DC. Monog. 
Phan. i. 294, Rhodocoma, sand in Lindl. Nat. % oh ed. 2, 450; 
Kunth, Enum, iii. 480. BR, capense, Nees cx oo Synops ii, 248. 
R. Equisetum, Nees ex Mast. in Lak Linn. Sie 
Reeron : Uitenhage Div.; Zwartkops ‘m9 cea an g and?! 
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2 
Phage yr ee et Div.; Commadagga, Burchell, 3322, 3! —— a 
ocks of Zwartwater airy Burchell, 3373 | Albany Div.; 2 
Riskvek, Burchell, 3509 ! 
R. callistachyus (Kunth, Enum. iii. 400); stems 2-6 it. 
spike-like cymes, each 1-2 lin. long ; spathe sheath-like, acuminate, 
nearly equal to the spikelet; bracts ultimately spreading, oblong, 
mucronate, subcoriaceous, brown; perianth-segments membranous, 
blong, acute ; latera conduplicate, villous-carinate ; inner smaller ; 
anthers linear, apiculate ; pistillodium minute; female spikelets 1-3, 
about 3 in. long, oblong, flattened ; spathe oblong, cuspidate, half 
the length of the spikelet; bracts ultimately spreading, oblong; 
acuminate, rather flat, thin, wavy at the edges, dhentivot: brown; 
perianth-segments as in the male, but broader; staminodes 9°; 
ovary trigonous, dark chestnut, 2-celled y abortion ; a we s 3, 
recurved. S 
1: , ma . Con 
Synops. ii. 251; Mast. in DC. Monog. Phan. i. 241. RB. “fastigite 
Nees ex Mast. in Journ inn. Soe. Vili. Pats not nae ‘ie 
Soura AFgica: without locality, Drége, 31,2! 32,¢! Burchell, 5812, 2! 
oast RrGion: Tulbagh Div. ; j Winter Hoek n! Stellenbosch Div-s 
Hottentots Hoiland, below 1090 , Zeyher! Caledon Div.; mountain oe 
in the neighbourhood of ant sete River eet et Beg tt Herb. ars Aff. 
tie g ani 9! Humansdorp Div.; mou omme Rive 
ft., Drége, 30! north side of Kicmeas Bier, Punel 4843, 9! Uitenhage 
, Ee “lon and Zeyher, 539, Bf 
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72. RB. spinulosus (Kunth, Enum. iii. 402); stem 2-3 ft. high, 
y erect, terete, dull olive, striate, pein eeter branching in the 
middle ; branches virgate, ascending, compressed ; leaf-sheuths 1 in. 
wae closely conv i Pinus opr thinner at the margins, nerv030- 
iate ; apex subulato-mueronate; male spikelets 1-1 in erech 
eal spicate peeans each about 2 in. long, oblong, oltisatale : 
2 a 
‘ernetatid ; bracts loosely imbricate, ovate, oblong, ante: a 
ucronate ; perianth-segments oblong, obtuse ; lateral condupli 
