120 REsTIACEE (Masters).  [Thamnochortus, 
styles 1-8. Fruit indehiscent, enclosed within the persistent perianth, 
compressed, 1-celled, 1-seeded, surmounted by the remains. of t 
es. 
Herbaceous perennials, with a creeping or co eg stock ; stems erect, 
reli at the base with sheathing scales; leaf-sheaths closely convolute, pores 
s prolonged into a linear leaf ; male and female sidlashaey nee alike or dissimilar, 
tim 
‘hale usually “with many spikelets in a panicled cyme; femule spikelets 12 of 
cymose. 
DistriB. Endemic. 
Style 1 
Male pacts Panictes » much-branched, atone 
spkelets numero female inflorescence a lor 
ng : 
3 ma linear, dhibags aenbe 3 bracts ia 
(1) spicigerus. 
Male Je spelt ovoid-oblong 5 ie oblong, : 
(2) giganteus. 
Male se small, ‘ovate-oblong 5 ” bracts 
oblon meena, or acuminate . Fee AS) scirpiformis. 
Male stkset vag ulous 
pikel bo long, o (4) rlpspebit Oe 
Shikelet . long, si ram Peas (5) argenteu 
Male cnflbrencsuss ‘acai ‘panicled , short, oceupying 
stem : 
and upwards : 
male care very acute, gradually 
tapering ah (€) elongatus. 
pers <. male flower oveid-obloug, 
Bde acumin eg oe (7) dichotomus. 
Male tine less han ng : 
Male ac ‘ty Sano $ 
rac “—, mucronate (8) erectus. 
Bact "ances eolate; inner pe rianthseg- ‘ 
male) longer mene a (9) platypteris. 
Male sikelt ‘clonidlaas spre : 
Bracts oblong, acute, asaricess ... (10) Burchell. 
Styles 2- 
Male Sad female Infloreeence aa male spikes 
numerous; female spikes ned shea ths obtuse 
at the apex, with a prolonged in 
apr apncete about % in. sig deteed, pear- 
ge wrinkled, spotted 11) umbellatus. 
ems not canis ed, very ae spotted (12) imbricatus. 
Male a suborbicular, Jess than } in. long : 
s prominently tubereled .. wiv wow (18) corns. 
infl 
Male and finite orescence similar 
Spikelets at least 4 in. long; rendre ee ce gat distichus. 
ikelets about 4 in. long; bracts oblon 15) carscinus. 
IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 
Inflorescence eet : 
Bracta lenceols a gracilis. 
Bracts ov ohh .. (17) floribuncus. 
Bracts dllsegpiebadlian acuminate ; spike. 
lets cylindric .. (18) occultus. 
ervey St in terminal elongated spikes ; - stems 
riuted a .. (19) striatus. 
