Elegia.| RESTIACEE (Masters). 118 
ong inner segments; anthers spine female inflorescence less 
deve than the male ; perianth simi 
Coast Recion: Tulbagh Diy. ; near Tulbagh, Zeyher, g and 3?! 
19. E. spathacea Casts in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 588); stems 
cespitose, slender, erect, 2 ft. high, wiry, terete, solid, unbranched; 
leaf-sheaths deciduous ; wate in nflovedt cence 1-2 in. long, oblong, 
panicled, many- -flowered, with numerous flat, oblong-acute spathes ; 
perianth-segments subequal, oblong, obtuse, chestnut-brown ; fruit 
clavate, tires: sided, 1-celled, 1-seeded, surrounded by the persistent 
periant nth, 
Coast Recton : Tulba gh Div. ; on a Witsen Berg near Tulbagh, le 
8647,9! Caledon Div. 1 Donker Hoek Monntain, Burchell, 795) nye 
the mountains of jae Kloof, near Gendlenaat Burchell, 77 10, 3 
20. E. parviflora (Kunth, Enum. iii. 467); stems cespitose, 
erect, 12-18 in. high, very slender, wiry, fistular; leaf-sheaths de- 
ciduous ; male and female inflorescence similar, varying in size, 
lets many-flo wered ; bracts ovate, acute, coriaceous, membra nous at 
the apex, muticous or scarcely inaeeeaieke : ; perianth-segments rigid ; 
— boat-shaped, obtuse ; inner longer than the outer ; flowers of 
male plant rather larger, and inner segments about the same 
oak as outer ; fruit pyriform, ring, ak puneticulate, as long as 
the lage perianth, erowned by the remains of 3 styles. Steud. 
Synops. ii. 262; Mast. in Journ. Linn. am x. 244; DC. Monog. 
Phan. 353. Restio par viflorus, Thunb. Diss. 13; Fi. Cap. ed. 
Schult. i, 85; Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 722; Nees in Linnea, v. 655. 
Soura AFRICA: without reget Zeyher, 1739 
JON: Cape Div ané da unes ae Town, Bolus, 4432! 
Wynber, 1 evils heal Tige Dré ége, 15 Paarl Di “ ittle Drakensin 
itountains, below 1000 ft., Drége, 1646! ‘Tulbagh Div. ; — Tulbagh Water- 
Eckl Zi i tai the vicinity 0 ew oot, ’ 
lacOwan, Herb, prnceval yee: mt ore yi ; Dutoits Kloof, Drége, 
120! egei 1649! 'Drakenstein Mou 000 ft., Drege, 121! oe lon 
Dj s, 3000-4 
v.53 Donker Huek and Ezelsjagt roped 1090-200) ft., Drége, 11 
1. E, rigida (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 587) ; 
Berhad 14-18 in. high, very slender, terete, scarcely Dia ; 
leaf- -sheaths Reinet female inflorescence about 1 in. long; linear- 
oblong, with numerous convolute, oblong cata: perianth about 
! line Jo ong; segments subequal; lateral conduplicate, acuminate ; 
intermediate spathulate ; ovary trigonous, an: 1-celled, as long 
as the persistent perianth ; styles 3, recurve 
a Peele Tulbagh Div. ; New Kloof, near Taibeeh; Zeyher ! gag 
