108 RESTIACEH (Masters). [ Hlegia. 
rip hi Rottboll, Prog. 11; Deseript. et Icon. Rar. 8, ¢. 3, 
fig. 4 
SourH AFRICA: mpeent locality, Masson, g in British Museum! Koenig, ? 
in Rottboll’s Herbarium 
6. E. acuminata (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 580) ; 
exspitose, 2-6 ft. high, simple, erect, compressed, solid ; Pi 
deciduous ; male inflorescence 2-3 in. long, densely paniculate-cymose, 
Sie erect a with numerous flat, elliptie, sub- 
pres 
half whe length of the inner, oblong, Ssiay segme te; fi male inflor- 
escence as in the male; pained all equal, cartilaginous, 
chestnut-coloured, oblong, mucronate, 1 line and upwards in length; 
ovary obovoid, acutely 3-winged ; stigmas 3. 
Sourn AFRICA: ay locality, Thom,?! Drége, 104, ¢! 
Coast REGION: iv. ; Table ountain above Kirstenbosch, 2400 tt., 
Bolus, 4640, ¢ and 2! ! Swellendam Div.; at the foot of the Lange Bergen near 
eee Burchell, 7435, $! Riversdale Div.; lower part of the Lange 
Bergen, about the waterfall at “ Valley Rivers Poort,” near Kampsche Berg; 
Burchell, 3098, 3g and 9?! 
7. E. membranacea (Kunth, Enum. iii, 474); stems cespitose, 
erect, 2-3 ft. high, terete, solid, thinly puncticulate, simple oT 
searcely branched; sheaths deciduous; male inflorescence linear- 
oblong, erect, 2-3 i in, long, loosely paniculate cymose, with numerous, 
chlong-lanoeat, flat, chartaceous spathes ; spikelets many-flowered ; 
perianth straight ; outer segments ovate, acute, half the length of 
the similar inves female. inflorescence wedge-shaped ; perian nth- 
segments equal, acute, mueronulate ; fruit pytiform, 3 3-sided, shining 
black, smooth. Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 581. Restio mem- 
year Nees in Linnea, v. 657. 
st Reaion: Cape Div. ; Table Mountain, ae 836 partly, t! Zeyher, 
é; Soe 564, g and 9! Cape Town, Harvey, 200, 3! 
8. E. a ae — Enum. iii. 473) ; rootstoek czspitose ; 
stems 2-3 ft. high, ascending, sean solid, lightly rugose sulcate, 
Reng ohh oh than 1 in. long, loosely convolute, oblong, 
Pe Hap Hew: mucronulate, ultimately deciduous; male inflorescence 
2 in. long, oblong, densely paniculate-cymose, with elliptic acute 
sheath-like shining brown spathes ; flowers ovoid, stipitate, scarcely 
2 in. long, exeeeding the ovate-obtuse bract ; nee ’ perianth-segments 
oblong, ol tuse; inner similar in pe, but twice the length; 
anthers apiculate; female inflorescence oblong, in spike-like cymes, 
about 1 in, long, spathes shleig Iabbsblats 7 lees than 1 in. long; 
setsiivik shining, black, ‘puncticulate, surmounted by ee Steud. 
Synops. i. 261; Mast. in. Journ, Linn. S800, x. 242; xxi. 582; 
