114 _ REsTIACEE (Masters). [ Elegia. 
Div. ; Drakenstein Mountains, near Bains Kloof, 1600-2000 ft., Bolus, 4100, 9! 
mountains above Worcester, Rehmann, 2565 ! 
. E. Verreauxii (Mast. in Journ. Soe. Linn. xxi. 589); root- 
a horizontally creeping ; stems 14-18 in. high, erect, very pe 
rigid, unbranched ; leaf-sheaths subpersistent, 1 in. long, loosely 
convolute, mucronate, spreading at the apex ; inflorescence linear, 
41 in. long, many-flowered ; spathes aristate ; flowers minute, loosely 
arranged, blackish; perianth-segments subequal, chestnut-brown, 
oblong, obtuse, equalling the 3-sided blackish fruit. 
SovurH AFRICA: without locality, Verreaux ! in the British Museu 
Fito roxas Reeion: Caledon Div.; Nieuw Kloof, Houw Hoek opens ts "Burchell, 
23. E. nuda (Kunth, Enum. iii. 462); rootstock creeping ; stems 
1-2 ft. high, ereet, filiform, compressed, solid ; leaf-sheaths caducous; 
male and female inflorescence in oblong, spicate cymes, each about 
lin. long; spathes oblong, mucronate, i ely convolute, blackish, 
deciduous ; ; bracts in both sexes broadly ovate, mucronate, coriaceous, 
blackish-brown, shining, shorter than the flow wers ; perianth i in both 
sexes similar; outer segments ovate- ba subcarinate ; inner 
oblong-ovate, acute, twice the length of the outer; ovary trigonous; 
styles 3 ; fruit 3-gonous, blackish-purple, 1-celled, Be seeded, crowne 
by the remains of the styles. Steud. Synops. it. 261 ; "Ma st. m 
Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 239; DC. Monog. Phan. i. 353, partly. Chon- 
dropetalum nudum, Rottb. Descr. et Ic. 11, t. 3, fig. 3. Restio 
nudus, Nees in Linnea, v. 651, partly. 
Sovuta A¥FRIcA: without locality, Sieber, 111, 2! pi 128, partly, 2! 
Coast REe@ion: Cape Div.; Cape Flats, Burke gat 
; elongata (Mast.); stems exspitose, 2} ft. high, terete, 
seats oe unbranched, clothed at the base with dark shining 
scales, greenish- -grey, obsoletely panctioulate; ; leaf-sheaths numerous, 
remote, deciduous; male inflorescence 1-3 in . long, linear, aniculate, 
interrupted ; spathes inconspicuous ; ciate short, acuminate; 
bratts blackish, shorter _ e 
3 min ata staminodes. 
Coast REeGion : Cape 3 between Wynberg and Devils Mountain, Drég’, — : 
147a,$! Paarl rer rhnalaek Paarl and Lady Grey Bridge, below 1000 tt, 
Drége, 9454, $ and 3! 
V. LAMPROCAULOS, Mast. 
Male and female inflorescence somewhat similar, eke se 
large sheath-like, atimnataky deciduous, spathes. 
Mal. 
panicled cymes. Bracts small, linear. Outer parianti-segment® 
