Hypolena.] RESTIACE (Masters). 133 
n. 
striolate, equal and appressed to the ovary ; fruit cylindric-oblong, 
coriaceous; style simple, short ; stigmas 2, linear. Mast. in DC. 
UT - 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv, 417, 418. Restio paniculatus, Linn. herb.! 
Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 590. 
Sout Arrica: without locality, Thom, 632 partly, g and 2! 
Coast Reeron: Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland, Thunbery, ¢! 
Caledon Div.; mountain near Grietjes Gat, Ecklon and Zeyher ! Donker Hoek 
Mountain, Burchell, 7989, g ! Houw Hoek Mountains, 1000-3000 ft., Zeyher, 
8, og! 
6. H. incerta (Mast.) ; stems 2-3 ft. high, erect, terete, sparingly 
branched ; branches fasciculate, ascending, olive-coloured, slightly 
Tugose, white-spotted ; leaf-sheaths about 3-4 in. long, tightly _con- 
volute, coriaceous, striate ; apex membranous, rather acute, with a 
subulate mucro; male spikes 5-7, aggregate at the ends of the 
SoutH AFRICA: without locality, Thom, 1031, 3! 
oast Region: Stellenbosch Div.; Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 8267, 3 ! 
ys Pass, ’ 
ee Div.; mountains of Baviaans Kloof, near Genadendal, Burchell, 
6! 
1. H. laxiflora (Nees in Linnea, v. 663) ; stems filiform, capillary, 
slightly compressed, branched, purple-spotted; leaf-sheaths } in. 
ong, somewhat loosely convolute, subulato-mucronate ; male spikes 
numerous, arranged at the ends of the branches in loose paniculate 
cymes, each about 1 in. long, 1-2.flowered, subtended by a spathe as 
ong as itself; outer perianth-segments subcoriaceous, oblong, 
Searcely keeled ; inner hyaline, flattish ; anthers apiculate; female 
Spike solitary terminal, 1- red, 1 in. long ; bracts loosely imbri- 
cate, oblong, with long setaceous points; perianth-segments equal, 
oblong, -herved; in hyaline; ovary oblong, obtuse ; 
bd oe - 
stylopod, Kunth, Enum. iii. 451; Steud. Synops. ii. 265 ; Mast. 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 263, and in DC. Monog. Phan. i. 369. 
Coast Region: Ca Div. ; Table Mountain, in fissures of rocks towards the 
1? Ecklon, 843, 3 cha iy Caledo Div. | mountain near Grietjes Gat, 
ttween Lowrys Pass and Palmiet River, Ecklon and Zeyher, 3! 
: 8. H. aspera (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 264 partly) ; stems 
ufted, filiform, erect, much branched, rigid, coarsely tubereled ; 
leaf-sheaths about 1 in. long, closely convolute, acuminate, deeply 
hyaline at the tips ; male spikes numerous, in much-branched, ter- 
minal, panicled cymes ; each linear-oblong, with a loose spathe at the 
®; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, thyaline. at. the tips; perianth- 
