Hypolena.] RESTIACEE (Masters). 135 
peta wah in the middle; branches a virgate ; leaf-sheaths 
a ip 5 
long, with a subtending spathe ; bracts loosely imbricate, oblong- 
lanceolate, filaceo- aristate, deeply hyaline ; outer perianth-segments 
oblong-lanceolate, cartilaginous ; lateral conduplicate ; ; inner smaller, 
thinner, oblong. Mast. in DC. Mon nog. Phan. 1. 374. 
oast Region : Caledon Div. ; Nieuw Kloof, Houw Hoek Mountains, Burchell, 
8116, g! sre of Bavieane Kloof, near Genadendal, Burchell, 7632 partly, 
é! 7894 p rtly, co! 
aths Sethe eg 
the spi elets ; bracts loose, oblong, acuminate; outer perianth- 
segments oblong ; lateral keeled; villous; inner hyaline, broader 
than the outer; anthers apiculate. Mast. in DC. Monog. Phan. 
75. 
st Region: Ca ipe Div.; mountains near Cape Town, Zeyher, 4347, ee 
dine ‘Shnons Town, Zeyher, 1006, ¢! Wright, eds Muizen Berg, 200-600 
Bolus, 4466, $! MacOwan, Herb. Aust. Afr., 1670 
IX. HYPODISCUS, Nees. 
Male inflorescence solitary or paniculate-cymose. Pertanth-segments 
» in two rows; outer lateral conduplicate. Female inflorescence 
of 1 or few spikelets i in linear, spieate cymes. Flower solitary, sessile 
or stipitate. Perianth- -segments small, hyaline, subequal, sometimes 
wanting. Ovary on a fleshy stalk, l-celled, smooth, lobed or 
an epigynous dise, dividing inte two linear stigmas, 4 . 
inner surface, Fruit bony, indehiscent, 1-celled, with a sing 
pendulous ovule, senna at the base by the persistent perianth, 
and ae by t the 
Rush-like herbs with creeping rootstocks and tufted stems, covered at the base 
with ae apping n:: sheaths, 
Disretr, Endem 
) Willdenovia. 
vi 
Male spikel a acetate 
pikelet solitary, oblong; spathe short, a ae, % nitidus. 
Male “em clustered, subglobose ; spathe lo 
Stems ter, 
pper Sait ae eee 
Upper leaf-sheaths present 
Fe ee perianth wanting ; male spikes panicled, 
ilvery sae ‘ 
Female soul anth accrescent ; male and “female 
spikelets solitary, oblong, or aggregated es 
(3) oliverianus, 
(4) argenteus. 
(5) aristatus. 
