132 rustiacE® (Masters). [ Hypolena. 
impolitus, Kunth, Enum. iii. 404 ; Mast.. in Journ. Linn. Soe. viii. 
249. RB. triticeus, Thunb, herb. male specimen! Mast.in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xiv. 418. 
hag AFRICA: ae ioe ee 3! Bachmann, 3! 
Region : Clanwilliam Div. ; ae n La ange rows rp Heeren Loge- 
sins below 500 ft., te 67, ot Div. ; mountains in the Mae < 
New Kloof, 1000 ft., oe Hi ae Afr., 1677! ‘Cal don Div.; 
Ho ok Mountains, Zeyher, 4 
No female specimen at inet 
3. H. browniana (Mast.); stems erect, aad branch- 
ing; branches erect, terete, of the thickness of a crow- -quill, 
yellowish with mi inte white spots ; leaf-sheaths about 4— 5 tte long, 
tightly convolute, coriaceous, brown, subulate-mucronate ; male 
spikelets 4-8, in erect distichous spikes, each spikelet many- -flowered, 
roundish, somewhat compressed, 3-4 lin. in. diam.; spathe nearly 
long as the spikel 
co 
interm ediate shortest, “flattish with a central rib; inner equal, 
oblong, chartaceous ; : eee 33; pistillode minute. 
Coast Region: Caledon on stony mountains around Houw Hoek, 
1500 ft., MacOwan, Herb. chee ie 1727,.3 ! 
Pigs sec the female plant has not been detected, yet it seems probable, as Mr. 
own has cg that the above represents a new species of Hypolen4 
alice to oa impolita, Mast 
445 H. diffusa (Mast.) ; stems filiform, erect, 6-8 in. high, terete, 
coarsely tubercled, divaricately branched; br: erous, Very 
slender, wiry ; teak sheathin 4-1 in. long, closely nis ae coriaceous, 
cence Jong; 
lanceolate, acuminate, deeply hyaline above; inflor Jo 
linear, flexuose ; male spikelets in linear eymes, re sessile oF 
pedicellate, { ins long, 1-2-flowered: spathes Laie. ct peat his 
subcoriaceous, membranous at the x; bracts oblong, acute, 
apex; brac ng; 
exceeding the flower; perianth-segments ee obtuse ; outer 
subcoriaceous ; inner subequal, membranous; stamens vat ppoleen a 
aspera, Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 264 part rtly. 
ce REcIon : Caledon Div. ; Nieuw Kloof, Houw Hoek Mountains, Burchell, 
“5. H H. ecklo loniana (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soe. x. 268, 7, A); 
spikelets in pet terminal a wy ‘on or oniae cylindsi, 
oblong, each placed edgewise to the thachis, n 2 in. longs. 
ovate-oblong, obtuse, loosel acked ; perianth-segments eq 
linear-oblong, hyaline ; anthers apiculate; female spikes 1-8 at the 
ends of the branches, cylindric, oblong, ultimately pear-sha. 
