110 RESTIACEZ (Masters). [ Hlegia. 
black, pnenae here the vestiges of the styles. Mast. in DC. 
Monog. Phan. i. 354, 
Coast i. : Cape Div.; False Bay, Robertson! Table Mountain, Milne, 
2383! Simon’s Bay, MacGillivray, 437,92! Wright, 484, 3! 
i. 2. oi ao (Kunth, ei iii. 474); stems 2-3 ft. high, 
crespitose, covered at the base with scales, erect, ‘compressed, simple or 
sparingly Setuhes branches ascending, purple- spotted ; leaf-sheaths 
ovate-oblong, hyaline and lacerate at the margins, tapering at the 
apex into a long acumen; flowers 3-sided, shortly stalked ; outer 
perianth-eeymetits equal, oblong, boat-shaped, pale brown, ciliolate, 
less branched ; bracts oblong, with a long acumen; perianth-segments 
' boat-shaped, oblong-lanceolate, ciliolate; inner scarcely exceeding 
the outer; fruit 3-cornered, turbinate, surmounted by traces of 
three styles. Steud. Synops. ii. 262; Mast. in J Linn. 
Soe. x. pre DC. Monog. Phan. i i. 355, t. 3, fig. 29-32, and t. 5, 
Jig. 14. E. dregeana, Kunth, ‘Bau ili, 469. Restio asperiflorus, 
Nees in Linnea, ¥ . 656. 
ev Arrica: without locality, Drége, 106! 107! 9599, as to the female 
specimen 
soe ge “Ruoi0s : Clanwilliam Div.; Wupperthal, oo 1648, as to the 
female specimen! Cape Div. ; Cape Flats, ss Tulbagh Div.; mountains 
of i. Kloof, 1000-2000 ft. , Drage, 1641, cn Tulbagh Waterfall, Ecklon 
and er, 1 Worcester Div.; mountains shove Wes reester, Rehmann, 2563 ! 
Dutoits Kloof, 2000-3000 ft., Drege, 1640, 9! Culedon Div.; Nieuw Kloof, 
Pee Hoe ek Mountains, Burche <e 8057, 9! 8140, g and 2! Caledon Div.; 
"00°F : 
Sterna Vet River pry Kioubohs | River, Burchell, 1179. & and 2! Uniondale 
Div. ; between Welgelegen and Onzer, 1500-2000 ft., Drege, 102, ¢! Bathurst 
Div.; near Port Alfred, Burchell, 3996 partly, 3! 
EGION: Little Namaqualand ; Ezels Fontein, 3500-4000 ft., 
Drége, 2518! 
12. E. fistulosa (Kunth, Enum. iii. 467); stems 5 ft. high, erect, 
terete, simple, panelicsinyay tistular ; she: aths 12 in. long. 
wedge-shaped, with numerous flat oblong-lanceolate ae. bracts 
ovate-acute, carinate, shorter than the three-sided flowers; outer 
perianth-segments oblong, obtuse, glabrous; inner oblong of 
subspatulate, about the length of the outer; ovary three 
