128 RESTIACE (Masters). [ Thamnochortus. 
gh ain, Milne, 227, ! Simons Bay, M wae 433, ah ! Stellenbosch Div. ? ; 
of Bre 
Sree uw At Sigg pote Worcest ; River Valley, near 
Darling Bridze, 8v0 ft., “Bolu 2880, ¢ and | eres Biv Flats near Ceres, 
=i tt., Bolus; ots +! Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland, Zeyher, 3! 
orcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, 3000-4000 ft., Drege, 27,9! 1636, $¢! 
1603, 3! Sweet Valley (? ‘dete, Melks Valet i in Caledon Div.), Wallich ! 
rae 18. T. cernnus (Kunth, Enum. iii. 439, ¢); stems erect, terete, 
slender, 18 in. long, coarsely tubercled, with flat, regular, dise-like 
rominences ; sterile stems when present shorter, sparingly branched; 
branches filiform, curved; cauline sheaths 1-11 in. long, tightly 
convolute, thinner at the apex, gradu ally tapering, obsoletely 
nodding ; spikelets 1-3 in. long, cc alone ultimately 
clavate ; spathe oblong, “acute, mucronate, as long as the spikelet; 
bracts at first closely overlapping, ultimately loosely impbricate, 
oblong-obovate, coriaceous, ferruginous, shortly mucronate ; flowers 
arcuate, shorter than the bracts ; eats dep tnenite linear-oblong ; 
lateral conduplicate, with a narrow keel; female plant like the 
male ; spikelets solitary or twin, many-flowe red, cuneate-oblong, § in. 
ong; bracts loosely imbricate, oblong-lanceolate, longer than the 
orbicular flowers; perianth-segments membranous, ‘with ‘purple lines ; 
outer lateral deeply winged- carinate, with lacerate keel ; intermediate 
oblong, obtuse, membranuns, lacorate and fringed ; inner 3 oblong, 
obtu use, lacerate ; fruit oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, 1: celled, 1-seeded, 
sadehiicent; Plead ast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. x . 232; DC. Monog. 
Phan. i. 325, t. 2, ‘fig. 28-37 ; t. 5, fig. 8, e-d. Restio cernuus, 
Thunb. Diss. 10, fig. 2 ; Gant Delect. i, 45, t. 2, fig. 2; and Thund. 
herb. ex Mast. . Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 415. R. spicigerus, Lam. 
Td. t,. S04, fo, 2. He. umbellatus, Thunb. herb. partly ex Mast. in 
Journ. Linn. Soe, xiv. 415, not of Thunb. Diss 
Coast Region : Cape Div. ; Cape Flats, Drége, ai 3g! near Cape T Town, Bolus, 
2881, 3! Camps Bay, Burchell, 340, Sy Table Mountain, MacGillivray, 
434, 3! hills below Table Mountain, Thunberg ! near Beker Town, Milne, 217, $! 
Voreester Div, ; Drakenstein Mountains, wid Bains Kloof, 1600-2000 ft., Bolus, 
103, $! Riversdale Div. ; lower part of the Lange Bergen, near Kampeche Berg; 
Burchell, 6963, J and 2! 
or of the spikelets. Had they not been already separated by Kunth, it might 
e been better to have considered them as forms of one variable species. 
up T. distichus (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 233) ; a 
S| 
1-2 ft. high, slender, terete, nimple or slightly aad, olivaceous, 
leaf-sh 
white-tuberel ed ; eaths 3 in. long, closely eonvolute, conse 
mucronate, aristate, deeply mem branous near the apex ; sterile a i 
shorter, more branched, leafy; male spikelets 2-5 at she a of t 
stem, each about } in. long, oblong, compressed ; spathe oblong, 
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