Askidiosperma. | RESTIACEZE (Masters). 99 
long, loosely sabia deciduous, blueish-green, membranous and 
Jacerate at the apex; inflorescence a solitary terminal spike, about 
1 in. long ; onal oblong, with very long tails, coriaceous, with hyaline, 
‘leeply laciniate margins. Mast. in Journ, Linn. Soc. x. 247 
DC. Monog. Phan. i. 304, t. 1, fig. 32-36 
Coast Raion : Clanwilliam Div.; Ceder Bergen, at Ezels Bank, 3000-4000 
ft., Drége, 2510, 9! 
III. DOVEA, Kunth. 
Flowers more or less 3-sided, longer than the subtending bract. 
Perianth-segments 6, in 2 rows; outer lateral eonduplicate, 
carinate ; inner longer, oblong-acute. Stamens 3. Pistillode 
with rudiments of 3 styles, or absent. Female perianth similar. 
Staminodes narrow, strap-shaped, or none. Ovary 3-lobed, 3-celled. 
Stigmas 3, sessile, revolute, plumose on the inner surface. Frutt 
hard, capsular, 3-lobed, 3-celled, idedek at the angles. Seed 
reat cai igcata from the inner eon of each cell. Testa mem- 
Perennial h herbs; stems springing from a rootstock covered with sheaths 
upper sheaths deciduous ; male and female inflorescence mostly alike, spicately or 
paniculately c baa female les s branched, often with om flat, fi ersistent 
Spathes; spathes of male igtlorbecss nee caducons, convex, not greatly exceeding 
the primary pele, of the inflorescence; spikelets 1-2-flowered. 
DistRis. Endemic. 
rerio inflorescence elongate, linear, ee 3-6 in. 
coy (QA) Cee 
Male inflorescence dense, short, spicate, 1-2 co 2) ¢ cylindrostachy * 
a ate 
e wigntio ence rather loose, linear fasion ) (3) hookerians. 
Male i fidirrenesisies “elongate, loose, linear, paniculate, 
-8 in. long: 
Male inflorescence _ ea (4) recta. 
Male inflo > den 
racts and avaitiaesinolte ovate, acute we @) —, vA 
Sorted and perianth-segments roundish ... ... (6) macrocarpa. 
racts and perianth — s acute : 
Staminodes 3 ; fruit not constricted .. eer (7) ebracteata. 
Staminodes 0; fruit enor constri ‘ 
above the middle : (8) Bolusi. 
oS i et ara liniear-lanceolate ; _periantheseg- (9) panic alata. 
Br he ents 
ets subeoiacous, ‘younded ; periant segm * (10) racemosa. 
Bracts Ghia ng, acum inate 5 perianth-segments 
- acuminate; plant very robus = (11) mucronata. 
racts and  oieengigh se; ae ovate, ‘obtuse 5 
plant very robust 298 mn . (12) thyrsoidea. 
: 1. D. tectorum (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 249) ; stems 2-3 it 
long, emepitone, erect, simple, — of the thickness of a crow-qui 
