130 RESTIACEE (Masters).  [Thammnochortus. 
17. T. floribundus (Kunth, Enum. iii. 435); stems aie erect, 
terete, minutely puncticulate ; spikelets oblong, 2-3 lin. long ; bracts 
loosely imbricate, shining; perianth-segments ferrug ae two 
outer lateral shorter than | the others, mucronate, with a shallow, 
glabrous keel; anthers l-celled. Steud. Synops. ii. 259 ; Mast. in 
Journ. Linn. Soe. x. 231, and in DC. Monog. Phan. i. 32 8. 
Coast Recion: Reynaud. No specimen at Kew. 
18, ? T. occultus (Mast.); stem erect, 2 ft. high, terete, olivaceous, 
with whitish, flat tubercles, sparingly Leaded leaf- sheath 8 $ in 
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spreading or pendulous, flattened; male spikelets about 2 in. long, 
oblong, acute, with an open sheath-like spathe at the ba ase ; bracts 
oblong- lanceolate, coriaceous, ssed, chestnut-brown, €X- 
ceeding the flowers; outer vic iant Dense linear-oblong ; two 
lateral conduplicate, glabrous ; intermediate flat, with a gun 
inner 3 membranous, rather shorter than the outer ; 
anthers apiculate ; rudiment of pistil minute, with traces of ‘itee 
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i Reeton: Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, 2000-3000 ft., Drég’ 
1612, 2! 
19. T. striatus (Hochst. in Flora, 1845, 339); stems 3-4 ft. high, 
erect, striate ; leaf-sheaths 14 in. long, tightly convolute, acuminate, 
mucronate, striated ; female spikelets numerous, in long spike-like 
cymes, each nearly half an inch long, obovate; bracts lanceolate, 
mucronate ; outer perianth-segments acute ; tinal navicular, wit! 
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pressed, roundish ; style simple. Steud. Synops. ii. 260 
Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 231, and in DC. Monog. Phan. i. 328. 
elongatus, Hochst. in Flora, 1845, 339, not of Mast. 
Coast Region : Cape Div. ; Cape Flats, Krauss. No specimen at Kew. 
Allied to T. spicigerus ? 
VIII. HYPOLANA, R. Br. 
e inflorescence 1-pluristachyate. Spikelets 1—many-flowered, 
ocean by a spathe. Perianth-segments 6, in two rows; outer 
larger, thicker ; lateral conduplicate. Bicedgs 3; anthers 1-cell 
Fema le spikes solitary, or few, 1-flowered. Peri ranth — stipitate, 
6-partite, biseriate ; segments appressed to the sessile, 1-celled ovaty- 
Styles 2. Fruit ovoid or trigonous, 1-celled, indehiscent, page 
pex 
with an epigynous dise. Seed solitary, pendulous from the a 
the single cavity. 
Perennials with erect, branching stems, and close leaf-sheaths. 
Distr. South-west Australia, 
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