Typodiscus,] RESTIACEX (Masters). 141 
South AFRICA: without locality, Ecklon and Zeyher, 85,9 ! ; 
Coast Rxeton : Swellendan Div.; Voormans Bosch, Zeyh2r, 4336, 9! 
Male plant unknown. 
X. CANNOMOIS, Beauvois. 
Male spikelets numerous, paniculate cymose, with numerous open 
deciduous spathes. Pertanth-segments 6, in two LOWS ; outer 
larger; lateral navicular; filaments free; anthers linear-oblong. 
Pistillode none. Female sptkes 1-3 at the apex of the branches, 
surrounded by one or more permanent spathes, Perianth-segments 
oblong, appressed to the fruit. Staminodes none. Ovary oblong, 
obtuse, 1-celled ; styles 2, free, deciduous. Fruit stipitate, oblong, 
obtuse, more or less compressed, coriaceous or woody, in ehiseent, 
I-celled, 1-seeded. Seed pendulous from the apex of the funicle, 
Stems rush-like, tufted or erect from a creeping rootstock; sheaths closely 
convolute, 
Distris, Endemic, 
In my previous writings this genus is erroneously spelled Cannamois, 
Spathes of male inflorescence deciduous. Au Pop 
nt robust, much branched ; male spikelets oblong, He 
-gin.long ... me "a os oe .. (1) virgata. 
Plant simple or but slightly branched; male 
spikelets } in. long. iehtl 
acts roundish, usually acute or slightly eee 
acuminate ge ie meena (2) scirpoides. 
apie all mien nice et ee $ pee (3) simplex. 
Spathes of male inflorescence persistent; bracts with 
long whitish points (és oN ee, he ee a 
branched 
th 
Pedicellate, ovoid-oblong ; bracts broadly ovate, acute, chestnut-brown, 
fruit oblonc- d, Synops. ii, 263 ; C. virgata 
&-ovate, plano-convex. Steud, Synoj 
Hochst. in Flora, 1845, 340; Steud. Synops. ii. 263: Mast. in Journ. 
inn. § 
0c. X. 234, and in DC. Monog. Phan. i. 361. 
“irgatus, Rotth. Descr. et Ic. 5, t. 1, fig. 2 O (1773); Thunb. 
Diss. 20; in Usteri, Delect. i. 54; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 89 ; Thunb. 
Herb. ! Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 419. R. Seopa, Thunb. 
Diss. 205 in Usteri, Delect.i. 54; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 88 ; Thunb. 
Herb.! Mast. in Journ, Linn. Soe. xiv, 417.  Restio elegans, Potr. 
