Elegia. | RESTIACEH (Masters). 111 
pytiform ; stigmas 3. Steud. Synops. ii. 261; Mast. in. Journ. 
Linn, Soe. x. 243; DC. Monog. Phan. i. 356. 
Sourn Arrica: abi locality, Ecklon and Zeyher 
Coast ReGion: Cape Div.; vear Wynberg, 100 ft., Bolu 3203,2! Paarl 
Div. ; Paarl Mountains, 1000-5 2000 tt., Drége, 117 ! Cupe Flats Ecklon, 853! 
13. E. squamosca (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 244) ; rootstock 
reeping ; stems slender, erect, 4-6 in. high, terete, solid, unbranched ; 
leaf sheaths deciduous, Fpae shortly-mucronate ; : male flowers sub- 
trigonous, in an oblong, erect, panicled cyme, 2 in. long ; spathes flat, 
ovate-oblong, acute, mucronate, as long as the spikelet, ultimately 
separa bracts broadly-ovate, acute, coriaceous, membranous 
e€ apex, subulate- mucronate ; outer perianth-segments ovate- 
pera coriaceous, pune iculate ; inner oblong, acute, twice 
the length of the outer; fem flowers in compact panicles, 
intermixed with flat spathes; perianth-segments all subequal, 
ODIODE. ie eg I-nerved ; ovary stipitulate, pear-shaped, 
coriaceous, 1- (or 2-celled 2) ; styles 2-3; fruit indehiscent, oblong, 
coriaceous, 1- (2-4) celled ; ‘ealth 1: seeded. Mast. in DC. Monog. 
Phan. i. 359 
Soutn vein, : without locality, Pappe, 103, ¢! 
14. F, vaginulata (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 586); stems 
cespitose, erect from a decumbent base, 9 in. long, slender, terete, 
solid, wrinkled ; leaf-sheaths Jess than 2 in. long, flat, ovate, oblong, 
acute, Shining on the inner surface, ultimately deciduous ; male and 
female inflorescence Similar, of very short spike-like cymes ; siathen 
sheath-like, open, as long as, or rather longer than the spike; 
bracts ovate, mucronulate, shorter than the flowers ; male flowers 
rine long, trigonous, sessile; outer perianth- -segments oblong, 
acute, navicular ; inner wea: and broader; female flowers valle 
larger than the male ; perianth- segments subequal, oblong, acute ; 
io. Cali -shaped, smooth, surmounted by 3. styles, ”1.celled, 
Coase Bxa : Ceres Div. ; mountains near Ceres, 1800 ft., Bolus, 5480, 2! 
Rivera Div. ; os the foot of the Lange Bergen, near i Kenipeche Berg, Burchell, 
15. E. deusta (Kunth, Enum. iii. 460); stems cospitose, 1-2 ft. 
long, erect, unbranched, slender, rigid, compressed, solid ; leaf-sheaths 
persist ent, 11—2 in, long, closely c onvolute, coriaceous, filiform or 
long ; spathes flat, lanceolate, deciduous ; bracts oblong, coriaceous, 
acki -¢c arllahe e€ 
is nike, oblong, mucronate bracts; oute _— : 
Segments orate-bblong, acute, subcarinate, glabrous ; inner oblong, 
