Restio.] RESTIACEZ (Masters). 97 
blackish-brown, exceeding the shortly stipitate flowers ; perianth- 
segments linear-oblong; two outer lateral conduplicate, glabrous ; 
three inner equal, flattish, membranous, shorter than the outer; 
anthers blackish, apiculate ; pistillode minute, 3-styled. 
SoutH AFRICA: without locality, Zeyher ! 
This plant, of which the female is not known, is very different from R. distichus. 
78. R.? sejunctus (Mast.); stems erect, 2-3 ft. high, terete, flabellately 
branched ; branches slender, ascending, olivaceous, somewhat coarsely 
tubercled ; leaf-sheaths about 1 in. long, closely convolute, coriaceous, 
spotted, hyaline near the apex, and ending in a subulate muero ; male 
spikelets numerous, loosely arranged in linear, erect cymes, each spike- 
half the length of the spikelet ; bracts coriaceous, oblong-ovate, 
nearly as long as the oblong, somewhat triquetrous flowers ; periant 
1; lin. long, cartilaginous; outer lateral segments oblong, acute, 
villous-carinate ; intermediate flattish, glabrous; inner mel 
branous, subequal, shorter than the outer; anthers linear ovoid ; 
pistillode very minute. 
Eastern Re@ion: Natal, Bolton ! 
The specimen is in the herbarium of the British Museum, and a sre ae at 
Kew. No other species of Restio is known at present to grow in Natal. 
ranous; ovary roundish, 2-lobed by abortion, dehiscing at the 
angles. 
das 1 Reaion: Cape Div,; in a valley near Table Mountain, 2800 ft., Bolus, 
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i. Fn] ? . 
rownish, coriaceous, exceeding the flowers; outer perianth-segments 
Coast Region: At the summit of Winterhoek Mountain, near Tulbagh, 
8500 ft., Bolus, 7495, 2 ! 
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