Thi hortus. | RESTIACEX (Masters). 123 
Houw Hoek oh ae Burchell, 8131! Var. 8, Knysna ee ee Melville, 
Burchell, 5462 (no 564. 42 as formerly quoted), gf! and 554 and?! Port 
Elizabeth Div. ; Cahir the oo sens River near Port Hlizabeth, Borne, 4363, 9! 
Port Elizabeth, E.S.C.A ses 160, $! 497, 2! Albany Div.; near Brookhuizens 
Poort t, 1800 ft., MacOwan, 633, 2! 
of slender branchlets at the nodes; leaf-sheaths 11-2 in. long, 
closely convolute, coriaceous, acute, deeply membranous and lacerate 
above; smaller sheaths muc smaller hyaline and lacerate above ; 
apex ata is into a small curved leaf; male ob ee a 
ong ; 
ments smaller, flattish ; anthers apiculate; female plant like the 
Male; spikelets in less branched c¢ mes, erect, each spikelet 1; in. 
Segments obtuse, apiculate ; kee eeply winged, glabrous; fruit 
compressed, orbicular, surmounted by a single style. Steud. Synops. 
li, 259 ; Mast. 7 in DC. Monog. Phan. i. 317. Restio argenteus, 
Thunb, Dis. 14, R. scariosus, Thunb. herb. ex Mast.in Journ, Linn. 
Soe. xiv, 420, 
Sourn AFRICA: om —s Masso 
OAST REGION : Cap hills below gs Mountain, Thaeheroes Saws 
Caledon Div. ; Ch 3000-4000 ft., Drege, 161la, 9! Swellendam Div. ; 
between Sparrbosch and Tradouw, 100072000 ft., ‘Drege, ivers- 
dale lower part of ange Bergen, about the waterfall at “ Valley 
ivers gal Burchell, 8978, 3 nd?! Humansdorp Div.; Kromme River, 
under 1000 ¢ Dréye, 1611b, g! Uitenhage Div.; Van Stadens yy 1500 ft., 
ml 1509, 7 Ecklon and Zeyher, 291, °! Port Elizabeth, £.S.C.4. Herb., 
CENTRAL Reg GION: Prince Albert Div. ; Great Zwart Bergen, near Klaarstroom, 
00-4000 ft. , Drege, 132b, $! and 9607, 3! 
6. T. elongatus (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 226 and xiv. 416) ; 
stems tufted, 2-3 ft. high, slender, erect, terete, white spotted ; sterile 
stems much bran ched ; uitimate branches filiform, curved, leafy ; leaf- 
Sheaths tightly convolute, = Pe? in. long, coriaceous, dull brown, striate, 
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lacerate ; male spikelets numerous, in somewhat rounded panicled 
cymes, sessile or peduncled, erect or sometimes drooping ; spikelets 
2-4 in. long, oblong, flattened ; spathe lanceolate, half the length of 
the spikelet ; racts ultimately spreading, deltoid- lanceolate, acu- 
» Coriaceous, chestnut-brown, membran ous at the margins ; 
linear-o ong; peri rianth-segments linear-oblong, acute ; 
ateral Sets, winged-carinate, glabrous ; female plant like 
eS spikelets 3-7, in erect spike-like cymes 2-4 in. long, 
