122 RESTIACE® (Masters). [ iy chortus. 
numerous, in terminal, yeh eymes ; spikelets many- -flowered, 
abou “ 1 in. long; bracts oblong, coriaceous, dull brown, subulate- 
mucronate ; upper Se ceninmle. outer perianth-segments oblong, acute ; 
sea lateral conduplicate, keeled, glabrous ; other segments linear- 
oblong, acute, flattish ; eS ee like the male ; ‘spikelets 3-4, 
subglobose, the size of a e pea, arranged in a linear, spicate 
cyme ; bracts ids eit: ; outer lateral perianth-segments 
deeply-winged ; ovary compressed, suborbicular. Mast. in DC. 
Monog. Phan. i. 318. Restio scirpiformis, Nees in various herbaria. 
. 
Coast Region: Sand-dunes near Cape Town, Ecklon and Zeyher, g and?! 
No specimen in Kew Herbarium. 
a 4. T. fruticosus (Bergius, Fl. Cap. 353, t. 5, f. 8); rootstock 
ee densely elad with _ Ehesceyy sar sheaths ; sterile 
s 6-8 in. long, much-branc branchlets faseicled, filiform, 
ea) spotted ; fertile stems 11-2 ft. a, wees: terete, covered with 
ranching, as in the sterile stem ; leaf-sheaths about 1-12 in. long, 
closely convolute, coriaceous, lanceolate, acute ; smaller sheaths with 
two yaline, membranous lobes near the apex, and with numerous 
cilia projecting from the inner surface ; apex pr rolonged into a linear 
leaf; male spikelets numerous, in erect, loosely branched, panicled 
cymes 8-9 in. long ; branches spreading or deflexed ; spathe e bract- 
like, lanceolate, acuminate; spikelet ly 1 in. long, oblong, 
wing glabrous; anthers apiculate ; female plant as in the male; 
inflorescenee less branched; spikelets 5-9 in erect, linear, spicate 
cymes about 2} in. long, sessile or pedunculate, erect or r appressed, 
each about 1s in. long ; Spathe eos longer than the spikelet ; 
bracts lanceolate, coriaceous, membran at the margins; perianth- 
segments oe linear-oblong , acute ; ports lateral with a narrow, 
glabrous wing; ovary ovoid, “with a single style. Mast. 0 
Linn. Soe . 229; DE: Monog. Phan. i. 316. Restio dechotonia . 
Linn . Syst. Wed ed. 12, 11. 735, not of Rottboell! R. scariosus, i 
Thunb. Diss. 1573 in Ustert, Delect. i i. 49%; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 
61 mnochortus scariusus, R. Brown, Prod. 244, in note; 
Kunth, Enum. iii. 430; Steud. Synops. ii. 259, BR. eriophorus, Reichb. : 
tn herb. Sieber. R. Thamnochortus, Thunb. herb. partly ex Mast. ‘ 
in Journ. Linn. Soe. xiv. 420, : 
Var. 8, glaber (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc 229); stems siipirc Pega 
spikelets larger than in the type ; outer eruncaaei nts narrowly w 
Sovurn Arrica : without locality, Sieber, 230, ¢! : ! 
sy seg Bos is ¥, Svever, é! Thom, 916, gand ?! ee 
Coast REa@t lats, rays hae Burchell, 180, $! near Wynbergs 
Drége, 130, Pre Walicki Table tain near Constantia sh ; daghett the 
fout of Devils Mountain, 200 ft., Dolee a 729, @!  Culedon Die; Nicuw Kloot, 
