124 RESTIACE® (Masters). [Thamnochortus. 
each spikelet oblong, 1—% in. long, spathe sheath-like, lacerate, as long 
as the spikelet ; bracts ultimately loose at the tips, deltoid- lanceolate, 
acuminate, shining, brown, membranous at the margins; flowers 
orbicular, Samicd. arcuate ; outer sie perianth-segments deeply 
keeled ; ovary ovoid, globose. ast. in DC. Monog. Phan. i. 320. 
Restio elongatus, Thunb. im Hojfm. Phy Stor Blatt.i.7; in Weber and 
Mohr, Archiv.i. 25; “i Cap. i. ed Schultes, 83%; Th shad, herb. ex Mast. 
in Journ. Li nn. Soc. xiv. 416. RB. acini Steudel in Flora, 1829, 
i, 134, not of Pareke: fe nutans, ceria sas Ce not of Fl. Cap. 
ed. Schultes, 84; Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soe 6. Thamnochortus 
dichotomus, Kunth Enum. iii. 433, partly ; fe in Journ. Soc. Linn. 
LInnd. x. 229, partly. Restio paleaceus, Nees partly, in various 
herbaria. 
Sout a | without booms hae Mie 2! Berg 
Cape 
Bol 4102, don : ! 
Mossel Bay Div. ; ; hills near ae desde at Mossel Bay, Pirckall, 6284! E 
Very variable and often confounded with T. dichotomus, oie which it differs 
in the larger spikelets, and in the spathes and bracts being gradually and sharply, 
not abruptly, acuminate. Under the same numbers the two ajetice are frequently 
poy io ey in herbaria, 
7. T. dichotomus (R. Br. Prodr. 244, in note) ; rootstock creeping, 
covered with dark brown scales; stems 1-3 ft. high, erect, slender, 
terete, olivaceous, with white disc-like markings ; fertile stems uu- 
branched or only slightly forked ; sterile stems shorter, much branched, 
leafy ; leaf- sheaths tightly convolute, 1-11 in. long, coriaceous, dull 
spreading ; spikelets } in. long, sessile or pedunculate, at first cylindric, 
acute, su sequently oblong, many-flowered ; spathe bract-like, half 
the length of the spikelet; bracts ultimately loosely spreadin 
tips, oblong, abruptly acuminate, pale, ferruginous, hyaline at the 
margins; outer lateral perianth-segments conduplicate, apiculate, 
ecarcely keeled, the others oblong flattish; female plant like the 
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glabro ous ; the aia lena ae flattish fruit subglobose. 
— Enum. iii. 433, partly ; Steud. Synops ii, 259; Bast. im 
Jo Linn. Soc.- x. 229; DC. — . Phan. i, 318, Restio 
dic. "a Rottbvell, Deser. et Ic. 2, t. ¥ fia 1, not of Linnens. 
Linn. Soc. xiv. 420. RB, paleaceus, Nees partly, in various yee 
