a 
Thamnoch ortus.]  RESTIACE& (Masters). 121 
1. T. spicigerus (R. Br. Prod. 244, in note) ; stems 3-4 ft. high, 
erect, terete, taintly puncticulate ; leaf-sheaths i 2 in. long , tightly 
eonvolute, coriaceous, acumi inate, striate, ultimately lacerate at the 
free end; male spikelets ape numerous, in loose, much-branched, 
erect, panicled cymes 6-10 in. long; branches spreading ; each 
spikelet about + in. long, at first linear-cylindric, ultimately oblong ; 
spathe lanceolate, bract- like, much shorter than the spikelet; bracts 
in 6 rows, ultimately spreading, coriaceous, ferruginous, lanceolate, 
scarcely mucronate, about the length of the oblong stipitulate 
ower; perianth-segments rigid ; outer lateral boat-shay ed, the rest 
rather flat, oblong, acute; the inner shortest ; anthers linear- -oblong, 
apiculate ; female plant ‘Tike the male; spike ets less numerous, 
minate, coriaceous, ehestnut-brown; flowers suborbicular, arcuate, 
flattened ; lateral perianth- -segments glabrous, deeply keeled, the rest 
flattish ; ovary —— style 1. Kunth, Hnum. iii. 440; Steud. 
Synops. ii. 260; Mast. in DC. Monog. Phan. i, 314,  Restio 
Ca ee Thunb. Diss, 11, fig. 56; in Usteri, Delect. i, 46, t. 2, 
ig. 5 Flora Cap. ed. Schuites, 84; Thunb. herb. ex Mast. tm 
ieee gon Soc. xiv. 419, 420 
Sour AFkica: without locality, Thunb, d ad 9 wae lg 
Coast Recion : ap orn ‘Div.; near Gro Klo 
4236, 9! Cape Div. ; Cape Flats, Ecklon, 567! kn a fie reeery 
Bolus, 446,21 4450,9! Sult River, Drege, 227, Sand! 
‘paint Stout, terete, slightly stan oro ekg givi - off numerous 
tufts of slender bra s at the nodes; lower sheaths about 2 in. 
long, tightly convolute except at the tips, lanceolate, coriaceous, 
membranous and torn at the tips; upper sheaths similar, but 
5p, and prolonged into a curved, linear leaf; male spikelets 
numerous, in loose, branching, panicled cymes nearly a foot long ; 
branches spreading or pendulous; spikelet 1-1 in. long, oblong, 
Coast Ree rEcks le Ds; lower part of the Lange Bergen, about the 
waterfall at - Ya ile ey ecemng Pic fe ner p Kampsche Berg, Burchell, 6994! 
George Div.; bet ween Lange Vallei and Touw River, Burchell, 5711/2!- 
Humansdorp | Div. ; Kromme River, below 1000 ft., Drége, 2! 
8. T. scirpiformis (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 228); s 
erect, terete, slender, olivaceous, puncticulate, wrinkle leai- a eae 
oy r in, long, tightly convolute, acuminate, coriaceous, striate, 
thinner, and lacerate, membranous at the margins; male spikelets 
