100 RESTIACEZ (Masters). [Dovea. 
puncticulate ; leaf-sheaths closely convolute, deciduous; spikelets 
se, erect, terminal, linear, much- 
e 
flo 
series longer than the outer; anthers apiculate; female flowers 
similar to the males, with 3 liguliform staminodes ; ovary arr } 
capsule 3-lobed, 3-celled. Mast. in DC. Monog. Phan. 06. 
Restio tectorum, Linn. Suppl. 425, and in his fnbundey Rk. 
tectorum, B and y, Thunb. Herb. ex Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 
417. Restio nudus, vars.a and B, Nees in Linnwa, v. 651 ezel. Syn. 
Elegia racemosa, Pers. Synops. ii. ne Kunth, Enum. iii. 463. 
Coast REGION: er illiam Div. ; ie, apt ad below 500 ft., Drége, 2506 ! 
Cape Div.; Cape Flats, Thunder it Bur "428! 824, 3! ) Patton, 309, 
Burke! MacOwan, ie rb, Austr.-Afr., 1874! eden Div.; Nieuw Kloof, Houw 
Hoek Mountains, Burchell , 8127! 
ASTERN REGION : Nataly Rehmann, 8596! locality probably an error, 
. D. cylindrostachya (Mast.); stems cespitose, 15-18 in. long, 
Gaeuiet of the thickness of a crow-quill, erect, terete, dark olive, 
obsoletely puncticulate, clothed at the base with numerous crowded, 
overlapping, deep chestnut-coloured, shining scales, the lowest 
e 
upwards; leaf-s numerous, remote, deciduous; male = 
female inflorescence in dense, terminal, spicate eymes, 1-14 in. long 
spathe oblong, shorter than the inflorescence ; bracts aiatecinieaetiahss ; 
flowers 2 lin. long, trigonous; outer perianth- -segments linear-oblong, 
glabr aia coriaceous ; inner brown, twice the length of the outer, 
a 
surrounded by 3 staminodes. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Drége, 9605, 9! Thom, 908, 9! 
3. D, hookeriana (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 249); stems 
eae: 1}-2 ft. long, rigid, erect, simple filiform, pea solid, slightly 
ed, puneticulate ; ; leaf-sheaths closely convolute, deciduous, 
elliptic, coriaceous, membranous above, apex mucronato-aristate ; 
male spikelets numerous, one lin. long, in erect, linear, slightly 
branched, panicled cymes, 1}~3 in. long; spathes deciduous ; bracts 
2 lin. long; perianth-segments rigid, ferruginous; outer 3 a, es 
boat-shaped, oblong-acute ; inner similar, but ; longer ; ; anthers apicu 
late ; pistillode with 3 rudimentary styles ; female plant like the 
male ; spikelets roundish, the size of a small pea, in linear, spicifor™ 
cymes ; spathes open, sheath-like ; ran ovate-mnenonebty the lower 
ones sterile ; staminodes 3; capsule 3-lobed, 3-celled, dehiscing 
