112 RESTIACEZ (Masters). [ Hlegia. 
twice the length of the outer; staminodes 3, i adie 
S esigg ner purple, L-celled, with 3 pie Mast. in Journ. 
Soc 239; DC. Monog. Phan. i. sou. Chonuropeatun 
douitut, Rottb. Dasor: e¢ Ie. 10, ¢. 3, herb. ! Mast. 
jig. 2; Lin b.! 
in Journ, Linn. Soc. xxi. 590. Restio Uhndrontitic, Nees in 
Linnea, v. 652. 
SourH Arrica: without pests Sieber, 226! Zeyher! Bergius 
Coast Recion: Cape Div. ; Tal ble Mountain, 2800-3000 ft., Puorchotl, 565! 
Bolus, 4444! Drége, 123 | Boklon, 83 ‘839! 
6. E. fi i. 
spitose, erect, 14-16 in. high, very slende ; wiry, little else ; 
ath 
spathe sheath-like, flat, oblong, acuminate ; flowers very numerous, 
minute ; perianth-segments oblong, obtuse; inner slightly longer 
and thinner; perianth of female flower ess than 1 line In 
length; segments all subequal, cymbiform, ieee fruit equal to 
the persistent perianth, three-sided, 1-celled, 1-seeded. 
SourH ye ag bpd were Drége, 110, ¢! Stellenbosch Div, ; Lowrys 
t 
Pass, 1000-2000 Caledon Div.; Nieuw Kloof, Houw Hoek 
Mountains, Burchell, s121, 9?! 
17. E. stipularis (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soe. xxi. 587); stems 
tufted, attr 12-18 in. and upwards high, slender, terete, pranabtit 
towards the middle ; leaf-sheaths about 1 in. long, flat, elliptic, acute, 
persistent ; male inflorescence elongate, spike-like, erect, densely a snd 
i b 
onger ; female presen similar to the male; perianth-segments 
acute ; staminodes ; fruit Soe: 
oe AFRICA: hi locality, Masson 
t ReGion: Clanwilliam Div. ; Olip hants Rives, Gill! Onder Bokke 
Ve id, Deige, 2517 sgl ap also as 118) ! Caledon Div. 3; mountains near 
Pe Gat, Ecklon and Zeyher! Mossel Bay Div.; hills ne ear the landing- 
lace at Mossel Bay, hake 5 ewe 
ser confounded with rviftora, distinguishable by the flat, open, 
persistent sheaths and sree shanciedetes isti 
E. obtusiflora (Mast.); stems cxspitose, erect, 15—18 in. high, 
of the thickness of a crow quill, terete or slightly flattened, greyish- 
green; leaf-sheaths $ in. long, persistent, loosely convolute, spreading 
and sometimes flat at the apex, membranous, pale brown, thinner at 
the acute apex, ao on the inner surface; male and female 
inflorescences similar, in linear, rather dense, cymose panicles, with 
numerous, flat, sheath-like, lanceolate spathes; spikelets minute, 
arranged in cluitored panicles ; 3 spathelle membranous, obtuse, 
shorter than the spikelet ; bracts rounded, scarcely shorter than the 
flower ; outer perianth-segments somewhat ovate, shorter than the 
