- 136 RESTIACE® (Masters). [ Hypodiscus. 
Female perianth | minute : 
Stems fistular 
Male _periauth-segments awned ; male inflor- 
scence panicled ete F (6) Neesii. 
Male. perianth- mania not awned ... (7) binatus. 
Stems solid : 
Stems striated .» (8) striatus. 
Stem smooth not 8 triated 
anaes su nted by long, filiform appen- 
ale (9) synchroolepis. 
Ovary surmounted by a a cup-shaped, toothed 
i “ve Be ne se 2 LO} mcsoringaas 
Ovary surmounted by a few, short teeth . (41) ru 
re H. Willdenovia (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 259); stems 
tufted, 8-12 in. high, erect, slender, flattened, suleato- antes simple ; 
leaf-sheaths tightly convolute, subulate, mucronate, about 1 in. long ; 
male and female spikes of like pias a 3-3 in. long, solitary, pa 
oblong, compressed, provided at e base with an o en, aristate 
aristate; flowers oblong-lanceolate ter perianth-segments 
ferruginous, mueronate; lateral mae glabrous ; inner 
Pas em shorter than the outer, hyaline, combined into 
tube at the base ; anthers linear-oblong, apiculate ; female flower 
solitary; perianth-segments hyaline, oblong, free; ovary oblong, 
obtuse, shortly stalked, surmounted by a fleshy tk styles 2, 
ast. in DC. Monog. "Phan. i 389, ¢. 4, jigs. 7-15, and t. 5, 
g. 1%. Willdenovia striata, Spies. Syst. Veg. i. 188. Lepidan- 
thus Willdenovia, adie in mane v. 665, as to the male plant. 
Restio sulcatus, Kunth, Enum. iii. 404 ; Steud. Synops. it. 253. 
s Lg Sogireigte Thunb. hor as o female specimen! Mast. in Journ. 
oc 418. 
Coast REGIon s Seer Div.; Peg Flats, Burchell, 8545, 3! tether, 3) Ecklon 
and Zeyhe r, $ and Q!at the foot of Muizen Berg, near Fish Hoe 20C ft.» 
Bolus, 4465, g$! Stellenbosch Div.; Lsticnbes Holland, Zeyher ! greet 3 
iv.; near Zoetemelks River, Burchell, ,d! Knysna Div. ; near the wes 
end of Groene Vallei, Burchell, 5646, 3 and cn 
V 2. H. nitidus (Mast. in Journ. Soc. Linn, x. 259); stems 12-18 in. 
high, erect, simple, compressed, brownish, rugulose; leaf-sheath 
is in. long, peney yailhinies setaceo-mucronate ; male spikelets 
numerous, with close terminal panicles, proteeted la 
sheath-like spathe, each obo we bract salaaly bya Ie with a 
long acumen ; outer perianth-segments sabia ferruginous, oblong, 
acute 3 literal conduplicate ; inner shorter, ovate, tuse, apicu- 
late, pps anthers linear, apiculate. Mast. in DC. Monog. 
a, 
omen Recion: Tulbagh Div,; New Kloof near Tulbagh, pag g! at the 
foot of mountains in the vicinity of New Kloof, near Tulbagh, 850 Phe acQwan, 
Herb. Aust. Afr, 1680! summit of Winterhoek Mountain, Ecklon 
