Dovea.] RESTIACEZ (Masters). 101 
at the angles, surmounted by the remains of 3 styles. Mast. 
ia DC. Monog. Phan. i. 306. Restio tectorum, a, Thunb. Herd. 
ex Mast. in Journ, Linn. Soc. xiv. 417. 
Sours Arrica: without locality, Thom, 901 and 1621, ¢! 632, 9! 
oast REGION: Caledon Div.; Nieuw Kloof, Houw Hoek Mountains, 
Burchell, 8062, 3! 
4, D. recta (Mast.); rhizome creeping, giving off tufts of erect, 
wiry, terete, very slender stems, 10-12 in. high ; basal sheaths per- 
sistent, oblong, obtuse, mucronulate, chestnut-brown, closely con- 
volute; upper sheaths deciduous, subulate, mucronate; male 
inflorescence a loose, linear, spiciform panicle; spathes short, deci- 
uous; flowers sessile, or shortly pedicellate, loosely approximate ; 
spathe oblong-mucronulate, rather shorter than the spikelet ; bracts 
oblong, acute, scarcely as long as the perianth; outer segments 
iinéax“oblong, acute, glabrous, shorter than the inner; anthers 
inear, 
OAST REGIoN: Caledon Div.; between Donker Hoek and Houw Hoek 
Mountains, Burchell, 8007, 3! 
5. D. aggregata (Mast.); stems erect, cylindrical, as thick as a 
goose-quill, simple, 2-3 ft. long, faintly puncticulate ; leaf-sheaths 
deciduous ; female inflorescence a spicate panicle, 2-3 in. long ; 
Coast Recion: Cape Div. ; near Cape Town, Zeyher! Caledon Div. ; Gena- 
dendal, 3000-4000 ft., Drége, 1622, 9?! 
6. D. macrocarpa (Kunth, Enum. iii. 458); stems 2-3 ft. 
ong; terete or rather compressed, slightly branched, greenish 
puncticulate ; sheaths 1-2 in. long, oblong, mucronate, deciduous ; 
male spikelets numerous, blackish, in terminal, oblong, erect, spicate 
: ; spikelets 1-2 lin. long, roundish; spathes 
deciduous ; bracts ovate, coriaceous, membranous at the margins ; 
male flowers somewhat 3-sided, twice the length of the bracts ; outer 
lateral perianth-segments boat-shaped, oblong-obtuse, coriaceous, 
with membranous margins ; inner three equal, concave, twice the 
length of the outer; female spikelets 2-5, each about }—} in. long. ; 
bracts ovate, acute, coriaceous, nervoso-striate; perianth-segments 
rigid, oblong-acute; inner longer; capsule longer than the per- 
sistent perianth, 3-lobed, 3-celled ; seed solitary, large, with a white 
minutely ribbed testa. Steud. Synops. ii. 248; Mast. in Journ. 
Linn. Soe. x. 250; DC. Monog. Phan. i. 307. R. nudus, var. 
Pauciflurus, Nees in Linnea, v. 651. 
Coast Recion: Clanwilliam Div.; Ceder Bergen, Zeyher, 1740, g and 9! 
