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Willdenovia. ] RESTIACE® (Masters). 147 
8. W. fimbriata (Kunth, Enum. iii. 455); stems erect, 2 ft. high, 
terete, unbranched, yellowish, puncticulate ; leaf-sheaths 1+ in. long, 
tightly convolute, coriaceous, brown, fimbriate and ultimately 
with a conspicuous midrib ; inner 3 rather thinner, scarcely shorter ; 
anthers linear, apiculate; female spikelets 3-5-7, aggregated ; 
bracts acute-rigid ; perianth-segments membranous, oblong, obtuse 
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smooth or tubercled, raised on a fleshy, lobed stalk; ovule pen- 
dulous, Steud. Synops. ii. 263 ; Mast. in Journ. Linn, Soe. x. 271, 
and in DO, Monog. Phan. i. 394. 
oplOAst Reaton: Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, 3000-4900 ft., Drege, 
“611, 3! 1635, 9! Caledon Div. ; Genadendal, 1500-2000 ft., Drege, 1635a, ?! 
Coast Reqton : Cape Div.; Mosselbanks River, Zeyher ! 
Perhaps a form of W. teres. 
Excluded Species. 
ga compressa, Thunb. in Vet, Akad. Handl. Stockh. 1790, t. 2, 
&- 3 = Cannomois cephalotes, Beauv. 
XIL. CERATOCARYUM, Nees. 
; Male and female inflorescence different ; male densely paniculate- 
i. many-spiked, with large leathery spathes. Bracts white, 
anceolate, Perianth-segments in two rows. Anthers linear-oblong. 
a male inflorescence spicate. Spikelets 1-flowered. Perianth-segments 
i PPressed to the fruit. Jruit sessile, bony, subglobose, 1-celled, 
“seeded ; styles 2, ; 
Perennial rush-like 
D plants, with stont ascending stems. 
‘STBIB, Endemic. 
Pi te 1) argenteum, 
Stemefstnler SG) finatowum 
1, 
ie senteum (Kunth, Enum. iii. 483 male plant) ; tall, little- 
Perennial; stems erect, cylindric, purplish, minutely 
batt sgt r) > ? 
Sulose, Solid; leaf-sheaths 2 in. long, closely convolute ; male 
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