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Burchell 7647; Verreaux ; ad Simon's Bay (Boivin) 9. (Zeyher 4343), 
Cape Town (Bolus) get 9. 
8, oligostachyus, culmo flexuoso mono-vel distachyo ; vaginis in mu- 
cronem longum trigono-subulatum foliaceum patulum exeuntibus; spi- 
culis femineis quam in typo majoribus; perianthii segmentis magis 
aeutalis : — Re bifidus var. $. Nees in Linnæa 5, p. 636, R. bifidi for- 
ma gracilis Nees in herb. 
Ad Pr. B. Sp. ad False Day (Robertson in herb. Mus. Britt.) ad 
montem Tabularem( Ecklon 1,11 ; 1,12) ; Welgelegen (Drége 37, 1624); 
Simon’s Town (Wright) 9. 
2 Y, monostachyus, Steud. in herb. Forma depauperata spiculis paucis 
minoribus. 
Ad Pr. B. Sp. (Eckl, 840, 846). 
PA 69. R. festuciformis (Nees mss. ex Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
8, p. 248) ; culmis parum ramosis; vaginis culmeis longissime filaceo- 
aristatis; spiculis utriusque sexus conformibus; floribus oblongis 
curvatis : — H. festucæformis Nees mss. (nomen tantum) in herb. 
Sonder. R. ischæmoides, Nees mss. olim. 
2X Radices flexuosæ grises lignescentes. Culmi cæspitosi erecti. 
sesquipedales teretes crassitie pennæ corvinæ straminei impresso- 
punctulati, simplices vel superne parum ramosi, rami ascendentes, Va- 
gin: culmeæ pollicares et ultra arcte tubulatæ coriaceæ striatæ fusce, 
ad margines pallidiores membranaceæ (nec albida), superne in aris- 
tam filiformam appressam curvatam æquilongam productæ. Spiculæ 
mascule femineæque conformes in cymam paniculiformem plurista- 
chyam dense aggregate, singulæ plurifloræ 10-12 mill. erectze cylin- 
drato-oblongæ, demum complanatæ oblanceolatæ, basi spathà aperta 
bracteiformi ipsis breviore suffultæ. Bracteæ laxe imbricatæ lanceolatæ 
aristatæ coriaceæ pallide ferrugineæ, dorso nervo medio prominente 
notatae, infimae floribus orbatæ, ceteræ fertiles basique ita decurrentes 
ut rachis alata evadat. Flores stipitulati oblongi nonnunquam lateraliter 
curvati bracteis 3-4 plo breviores. Perianthii segmenta rigidiusula ob- 
tusa; lateralia conduplicata, extus superne villosula vix carinata; seg- 
menta interiora angustiora (in mare hyalina, in feminea rigidiora). Fila- 
menta eapillaria. Antheræ lineares apiculatæ. Ovarium oblongo-ovoi- 
deum. seu compressum ferrugineum stylis 3 stigmatoso-plumosis 
superatum staminodiisque parvis cireumdatum. Fructum non vidi. 
Ad Pr. B. Sp. (Ecklon 51. 8., 56.5, c et 9). 
70. R. subulatus (Mast. in Journ. Linn, Soc., 8, p. 248); culmis 
ramosissimis ; vaginis subulato-mucronatis ; épiculis on dista 
bracteis mucronatis, ats 
