138 RESTIACEA (Masters). [ Hypodiscus. 
lateral conduplicate, villous ; mire 5 pera ; female spikes soli- 
peak or few, approximate at the sof t ranches, ovate-oblong, 
t 1 in. long, Aleaded by a ors like spathe ; bracts ovate- 
lancet, yellow-margined, with long terminal awns; flower 
stigmas 2, Pn fruit oblong, obtuse, smooth, bony, purplish, 
surrounded at the base by the persistent perianth ; seed solitary, 
pendulous. Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 252, and in 
oe Phan. i. 380. Restio aristatus, Thunb. Diss. 10, No. 
4, male, in Usteri, Delect. i. 44, t. 2, fig. 4. Fl. Cap. 3 
Schult. 83; Zhunb. Herb.! male aes Mast. in Journ, Linn. 
Sor. xiv. 4155 Nees in Linnea, v. 636; Kunth, Enum, iii. 338 
male ae excl. syn.; Steud. Sper. il, 249, male plant excl. syn. 
ap. bicolor (Mast. in Journ, Linn. Soc. x. 253); awns and margins of the 
lentsheaths, oe and bracts aa yellow. Mast, in DO. Monog. Phan: 
ae Arrica: without locality, isco ¢! Drége, 21 3! Sieber, ae ey 
Coast Region: Piquetberg Div. ; Piquet Berg, 1500-3000 tt., Drege, 3,6! 
e 
Cape Div.; Camps Bay, Burchell, B89, Tus gant Div. ; "ae Kioof, near 
Tulbagh, 1000 ft., MacOwan, Her t.-Afr., 1680, 3 and 9! 1681, ¢! 
orcester Div.; Drakens tein, Siwiauieaees near “Bains Kloof, 1600-2000 ft., Bolus, 
4106, ¢! Dutoits Kloof, ! ! on! tai bove 
Worcester, Rehmann, 2555! Stellenbosch Div.! Hottentots Holland Mountains, 
t., Zeyher, 4332, n Diy.; mountains near Grietjes Gat, 
between Lowrys Pass and iet River, 2000 , gd and 9! 
oek Mountains, 1000-3000 ft., Zeyher, 4332, be mountains of Baviaans 
Kloof, near Genadendal, Burchell, 7594, - ih Don ae “ — Mountain, 
Burchell, 7963, ¢! Swellendam Diss ; mo ear Swellendam, 
Burchell, 7373, 2! Riversdale Div. ; on gr as ehh a Burchell, 7057, ¢! 
George Div.; on mountains near George, Drége, 3941, Zand @! lower part 0 
the Post Berg, near ne Burchell, 6027, d and 9! Var. bicolor ; Clanwilliam 
Div.; Oliphants River, Zeyher, g and Q! Aer Kloof, between Piquiniers 
Kloof and Oliphants ive: Dreye, 2509, gand 3! Worcester Diy.; Dutoits 
Kloof, 3000-4000 ft., Drege, 140, 3! 
6. H. Neesii (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 260); stems tufted, 
erect, slender, eylindrie, fistular, suleato-striate; leaf-sheaths tightly 
convolute, about 1} in. long, membranous at the tip and prolonged 
into a long awn ; male bike less than 1 in. long, oblong, aggregate 
into a long, linear, spicate cyme about 2 in. long ; ; bracts “with a 
long whitish acumen; perianth-segments subequal, lanceolate, 
acuminate; anthers aristulate; female spikes 2-3, terminal, pro- 
tected by a long sheath-like spathe; bracts imbricate, acuminate, 
aristate, rigid; flower solitary; perianth-segments sube equal, a. 
abies acute ; , oblong, tubercled near the apex; stigmas 
linear. Mast. in DC. ea nog. Phan. it 
Clanwi liam Div.; near Brak Fontein, Zeyher! Pretoris 
Coast Reaion : 
Kloof, hakieek Piquinie ers Kloet and Oiphasts ee 1000-1500 ft., Drégés 
2492, $1 2493, 2! 
‘7. H. binatus (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc, x. 258); stems yen 
erect, 2 ft. high, slender, simple, fistular, - olive-coloured, 
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