Dovea.] RESTIACEZ (Masters), 108 
in shape as in the male; staminodes none; ovary oblong, obtuse, 
3-lobed, 3-celled ; cells 1- ovuled ; style thickened at the base; f ruit 
trigonous, dehiscent 
Coast pariah Tulbagh net on the Witsen Berg, near Tulbagh, Burchell, 
8719, ¢! Worcester Div. Dutoits pena 3000-4000 ft., Drége, 125 5,9! 
1643, 3 and 9! 1651, ¢! Vivek tein mts. near rig Kloof, pecan ge fi 
Bolus, 4082, ¢! 4098, f! 4081,9! 409 7, O! 
Ceres, 2400 ft., Bolus, 5298, 3! ’Galedon Div. ; ; ‘ete Vile sa Breach 
~ Bol 7483, A 
Fe Tig with Sieber’s henna No. 232 under D. aes acteata, Kth., but it is 
certainly not the oe as Sieber’s plant, ae nl. ly belongs to the present 
species. The two are easily ERAT yy the colour of the annular persistent 
bases of the stem- sbatie: which are black in D. ebractea mi, whilst in D. piaicstate 
they are brown, and often sacle darker than the ste 
10. D. racemosa (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 578); stems 
eye 2-3 ft. long erect; terete, or slightly aes nines cat 
ie spathes numerous ne 21 in, gr ‘flat, ‘shlong, ates ok coriaceous, 
minutely tuberculate, with membranous margins, shining on 
inner surface ; bracts oblong-obtuse, mucronulate, shorter than the 
oblong- obtuse. flowers ; outer perianth-segmen s oblong, obtuse, 
membranous; inner lon nger and narrower; female inflorescence 
(according to Lamarck’s figure) like the male; perianth-segments 
acute ; ovary 3-lobed, 3-celled. Restio racemosus, Lam. Encyel. 
Meth. vi. 177; Lam. a. iii, 400, ¢. 804, jig. 
oe AFRICA: neg” locality, Thom, 904 ! 
0aAsT REGION: Cupe ; Table Mo untain, Burchell, 574, 3h! Worcester 
Div. Dutoits Kloof, 3000 000 ft., Drége, 1647,3! Culedon Div.; Nie 
Kloof, Houw Hoek Mou oe Burchell, 8067, 3! Riversdale Div. ; ai ees 
of the Lang 6 eben udae + Kate sche Berg. above the waterfall at “V Valley Riv 
Poort,” alias 11,6999, g! Uitenhage Das rocky clefts near the top Witteklip 
Mountain bh Wactinge, 2150, 3! 
vce checahags (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 251) ; stem 
of the little. finger, cinnamon-brown ; upper leaf-sheaths 4 in. long, 
on the inner face ; male spikelets very numerous, arranged in 
dense, much branched, panicled cymes, 2-3 in. long, with numerous 
ae, ie sheath- like spathes, each saat ahoos 1 line long, 
similar, _ alled, 
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