Hypodiscus. ] RESTIACEE (Masters), 139 
spotted; leaf-sheaths about 1 in. long, tightly convolute ; apex 
yellowish, subulato-mucronate; male spikelets 4—6, in an erect, linear, 
panicled cyme, each protected at the base by te oblong, sulcato- 
striate spathe shorter than itself; bracts ovate, acute, chestnut- 
brown, thinner at the apex; perianth rigid, ferruginous; segments 
‘ap anthers apiculate; female spike cylindric- lanceolate, 
3 perianth-segments hyaline, subequal, ovate 
oblong, pints stalked, surmounted by a yellow, warty dise ; 3 style 
short, chestnut- brown, stigmas long. Mast. in DC. Monog. Phan. 
1. : Dovea binata, Steud. Synops. ii, 248, female only. 
REGION : Pique tberg Div. ; Piquet Berg, 2000 ft., Drége, 2477, 3! 
airs, 9! Tulbagh Div.; mountains in ‘the vicinity of New Kloof, nner 2 ulbagh, 
Too ft., MacOwan, Her b. Aust. Afr., 1679! Ca oO Div.; on Donker Hock 
Mountain, Burchell, 7958, 3! Houw Hoek, MacOua 
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8. H. striatus (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc 258) ; rootstock 
creeping, covered with brown seales ; stems 18- 4 in high, erect, 
simple or sparingly branched, slender, terete, sulcato-striate ; leaf- 
sheaths tightly convolute, ari istate s male spikele ets 3-6, subsessile at 
the apex of the branches, protected by open, sheath- like, deciduous 
spathes, spreading, cylindric, acute, many-flowered, rather less than 
2 in, ong ; braets tightly imbricate, oblong, acute, coriaceous, 
chestnut-brown ; outer perianth-segments linear-oblong, apiculate ; 
i anthers apiculate; female spikes 
Solitary or twin, erect, about 2 in. long, cylindric-lanceolate, 
straight or curved ; bracts oblong-acute, cartilaginous, brown ; outer 
perianth-segments "pbisng g, Hirata : inner shorter, broader; stami- 
nodes 3, separated from the perianth-segments by a, short internode ; 
ovary oblo ong, coriaceous, surmount ted. by an epigynous, horny, 
Yellow disc ; styles 2, dicide uous; fruit Y aived. oblong jams 
tubereled at the apex, yellowish, 1: celled, surrounded by the per- 
sistent perianth-segments. Mast. in DC. Monog. Phan. i. 385. 
Boeckhia striata, Kunth, Enum, iii. 449. 
OUTH AF 
OasT lixaios | yeh : deggie pera fie ae Si quintert Kloof 
hants River, Dré ot Worcester Div.; near Touws River 
000 fi 6 3 
nboo 
nat eer = Lange Kloof, Dré yA !| Humansdorp Div. ; romme River, 
River. 1000 fs Drie, pc 2! Uitenhage Div.; mountains near El 
Cry Ze 
TRAL Reedy Pri be Albert Div.; Great Zwart Bergen near Klaarstroom, 
€, 94: 
ft., Drége, 
Whevans ; REGion: Little Namaqualand Kamies Bergen at Hzels Fontein, 
3500- ft., Drege, 2479, 3 ! 2480, Q! 2491, 3 ! 
ig satatitas male spikelets 6-8, ar sail in pairs in an erect, 
eyme ; spikelet many flowered, ais ais about 4 in. long, 
