126 ResTIACEE (Masters). = [| Thamnochortus. 
long, sessile or on slender stalks of ths same length, oblong, 
shorter than the bracts; perianth-segments oblong, acute ; lateral 
ightly winged; inner flattish, linear-oblong, longer than the outer 
segments ; female ‘plant as in the male ; spikelets 2-5, aggregate at 
eye ends of the stems, subglobose, or somewhat flattened, about 
in. long; spathes lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the spikelet ; 
er lanceolate, acuminate ; flowers stipitulate, flattened, as long 
as the bracts ; lateral perianth-segments very deepl winged, with 
glabrous keel; inner shorter; fruit oblique, ovoid, 1-celled, Laeoiets 
style Persistent. Steud. Synops. ii. 258 ; Mast. in DC. Mon 
Phan 2. 
AST ‘teases: Clanwilliam Div.; Oliphants River, Zeyher ! between Gras- 
ee River and Watervals River, 2500-3000 ft., Drage, 2002a, $! 2512, 2! Gift 
Berg, 1500-2500 ft., Drége, 2502b, $! 189, 2! 
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27; t. 5, fig. 8, ab); rootatock creeping ; stems 2-3 ft. oe “erect, 
terete, of the thickness of a crow’s quill, olivaceous, puncticulate ; leaf- 
about 1 
sheaths in. long, tightly convolute, coriaceous, upper edge 
membranous ; apex mucronulate- aarti male spikelets numerous, 
spreading, in ’ terminal, short, much- branched, panicled cymes, about 
in. long ; spathes lanceolate, acuminate, half the length of the 
spikelet ; "Gallo about 4 lin. long, sessile or pedicellate, oblong, 
compress “etapa reuate ; bracts $ convex, coriaceous, Stans , acute, scarcely 
subpaniculate cymes, each about + in. eae. Onaee aac 
many-flowered ; bracts lanceolate, ultimately spreading ; outer lateral 
perian th-segments bis aed winged ; inner three involute, shorter than 
the outer; ovary o 
SourH Arrica: ae ane als 129, gand 9! 
Saad Recroy : Malmesbur ear Groene Kloof, 3C0 ft., Bolus, 4237, 3! 
Cape Div. ; Cape Flats, Bolus, 4449, he ! Mossel Ba y Div. ; ; between Great Brak 
River cad Little Brak River, yee 6169, send ! 
11. T. umbellatus (Kunth, Enum, iii. 440); stems caespitose, pro- 
current, 2-3 ft. long, slender, erect, unbranched, terete, papillose ; 
leaf-shonthe? i in. long, coriaceous, fuscous, nervoso-striate, membr anous 
at the ovate, acute oe mucronu eat male eesunia ied # pedi- 
a rte gp nged keel: female plant as in the male kate 
1-2, terminal, ae cylindric or oblong, m elie ear thes ess 
than 1 in. long ; spathe acute; bracts squarrose, oblong-lanceolate, sub- 
muticous, coriaceous, nervoso- -striate, longer than the flowers; outer 
perianth- -segments arcuate, oblong, acute, conduplicate, winged-carl- 
nate; inner oblong-lanceolate; ovary turbinate, compressed, soins 
