Hypodiseus. | RESTIACE® (Masters). 137 
/ 3. H. oliverianus (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 254); stems 
tufted, slender, erect, unbranched, 2-3 ft. high, with athe at 
the very base only, purple- spotted ; male spikes 2-3, approximate at 
the ends of the stems, rarely solitary, each oblong or top-shaped, 
about 4 in. diam., protected at the base by an open shining yellow 
spathe, as long as the spike; bracts tightly imbricate, cartilaginous, 
chestnut- brown, ending in a long, white, spreading awn; 
arcuate, compre essed ; perianth-segments unequal, lanceolate ; anthers 
apiculate ; female spikes 2-3 at the end of the branches, 1- ‘flowered, 
cylindric- lanceolate, with an sai yellowish spathe at the base ; 
bracts oblong, chestnut- brown, with a long, straight, or twisted 
pier. ~eneer minute, h aline ; ; segments subequal, ovate ; ovary 
on a fleshy stalk, oblong, surmounted by a yellow, fleshy, lobed disc ; 
style short ; stigmas 2 , linear. Mast. in DC. Monog. Phan. i. 381. 
Coast R N: Siaaiatvieih Div.; Hottentots Holland rae near 
Grietjes Gat, Bolus, 4222, g! Galadon Div.; Nieuw Kloof, Houw Hoek 
Mountains, Burchell, 8118, Sand?! 
- argenteus (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 261) ; 
tufted, erect, 2-3 ft. high, sparingly branched, terete, faintly Peay 
leaf she aths 1 in high, tightly convolute, acuminate; male spikes 
very numerous, collectad in terminal, close, aie weed panicles, 
ed b i 
lam. ; bracts oblong, acuminate, membranous at the tips, concealing 
: outer perianth-segments oblong-lanceolate, 
acuminate ; inner scarcely shorter, membranous ; anthers 0 lone 
apiculate ; — pnt 1-3, terminal wedge- rae about 3 in. 
we 
Placed on a fleshy, lobulate stalk. Mast. in DC. Monoy. Phan. i. 383. 
Leucopleus argenteus, Nees in Lindl. Nat. Syst. ed. 2, 450, Restvo 
argenteus, Thunberg, Diss. 14; in siti, Delect. i. 205 Shane 
f Mast. in siaglae aid roe xiv. 417 
on tl e Bere Burohell, 7058, ‘Qandd 
; enereiy alo es near Ceres, 2400 ft., Bolus, 
Wserman Dr “5. by the fee eo River, 
Zeyher. 1338, 9g! rie Wikagtelsnd: rocky hills by 
status (Nees in Lindl. Nat. Syst. ed. 2, 450); stems 
branch cect, cylindric, olive-coloured, white-spotted, sparingly 
canched or quite simple ; leaf-sheaths 11 in. long, tightly convolute, 
oben ene apex, s ubulato-mucronate ; ; male spikelets subglobose or 
branel,. solitary or more c¢ mmonly ariey at - a of the 
. ee braets with ine spreading aw flow mpress ed, 
