Lamprocaulos.] RESTIACEE (Masters). 115 
linear; inner segments larger and broader than the outer. Anthers 
I-celled. Female spikelets 2-flowered. Female jlowers in spicate 
cymes, curved. Bracts linear. Outer perianth-segments oblong, 
obtuse ; inner longer, oblong spathulate. Fruit surrounded at 
the base by the persistent perianth, oblung, truncate, com- 
Rush-like perennials with coarsely-tubercled, brilliantly-coloured epidermis and 
persistent leaf-sheaths, 
Disrriz. Endemic. 
Stem golden-bronze coloured ; spathes 2 in. long es ... (1) grandis. 
Stem rich brown ; spathes 1} in. long... ne ine ... (2) Neesii. 
Ss 1. L. grandis (Mast. in DC. Monog. Phan. i. 349, t. 3, fig. 22-28, 
a 
nd t. 5, fig. 13); stems 3 ft. high, erect, terete or compressed, 
nate, ultimately deciduous, spathes ; bracts small, linear; perianth 
slightly longer than the bract ; outer segments equal, linear ; inner 
membranous, spathulate, longer than the outer; anthers oblong; 
female spikelets 5-6 in linear oblong cymes, each spikelet 2-flowered, 
with a sheath-like spathe at the base; flowers about 2 lin. long, 
slightly stalked, curved; outer perianth-segments equal, oblong- 
obtuse ; inner longer, oblong-spathulate ; fruit oblong, truncate, 
Compressed, 1-celled, 1-seeded, surrounded by the persistent perianth : 
nches 2; seed pendulous. Lestio grandis, Sprengel Jide 
Nees in Linnea, v. 660. Elegia grandis, Kunth, Enum. iii, 475 ; 
Steud. Synops. ii, 262; Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soe. x. 245 
Coast Reeton: Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, 3000-4000 ft., Drége, 
Heed! Caledon Div.; Genadenial, Zeyher! Ecklon, 34! Houw Hock 
ountains, 1000-3000 ft., Zeyher, 4337, fund 9 ! 
subulate mucro; male flowers numerous in a much-branched | cyme, 
imtetmixed with large, deciduous, sheath-like spathes, each pedicellate 
about 2 in, ong, protected by a small linear bract; outer perianth- 
Segments linear-subulate ; inner oblong subspathulate, longer than 
the outer ones; anthers oblong; female spikelets 2-flowered, in a 
linear eyme, each covered by a large sheath-like spathe ; flowers 
Curved, with a small linear bract; outer perianth-segments rigid, 
oblong, concave ; inner wider; lateral conduplicate ; fruit inde- 
hiscent, l-celled, 1-seeded, oblong, compressed, truncate; styles 2, 
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