202 MONOCOTYLEDONEÆ. RESTIO. 
anticum planiuseulum superne parum obvolventia; interna minora 
chartacea conformia superne ad margines parum involuta. Stami- 
nodia ? Ovarium subrotundum stylis 3 villoso-stigmatosis superatum. 
Capsula orbicularis compressa abortu bilocularis stylorum vestigiis 
coronata. Mas latet. 
Pr. B. Sp. (Table mountain. Burchell, 572, 605 9). 
vá 87. X&. Mastersii (F. Muell. Fragment. Phyt. Austr. 8, 
p. 07); culmis virgato-ramosis; ramis erectis compressis; vaginis 
subulato-mucronatis; spiculis masculis 6-9, spicatim dispositis; femi- 
neis cuneatis solitariis. — R. callistachyus Kunth Enum. 3, p. 400; 
Steud. Synops. 2, p. 253 quoad femineam. R. polystachyus, Kunth 
l. c., p. 402; Steud. Synops. 2, p. 253 quoad plant. masc. R. fasti- 
giatus Nees mss. ex Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 8, p. 250 non R. Br. 
2 Culmi sub bipedales erecti crassitie penne anserinæ, versus 
medium subdichotome ramosi ramique erecto-patentes compressi 
virgali olivaceo-virides punctulati purpureo-maculati, Vaginæ culmeæ 
arcte tubulatæ 2-8 cent. coriaceæ fuscæ nervoso-striatæ ad margines 
superne tenuiores concolores, sub apice obtusiusculo, breviter subu- 
lato-mucronatæ, mucrone erecto appresso. Vaginæ ramulales con- 
formes magnitudine autem minores. Spiculæ masculæ 6-9 vel plures 
ad apices ramulorum in cymas lineares distichas spiciformes approxi- 
mate, singulæ 3-5 mill, long. erectæ oblongae plurifloræ, spatha va- 
giniformi fere æquilonga involutæ. Bracteæ arcte imbricatæ ovato- 
oblongæ, mucronatæ ferruginec flores masculos oblongos breviter 
pedicellatos duplo superantes. Perianthii segmenta membranacea 
oblonga acuta; lateralia naviculari-conduplicata villoso-carinata ; inte- 
riora planiuseula minora. Filamenta liguliformia. Anther:e lineari-lan- 
ceolatæ mucronulatæ. Pistillodium minutum. Plantæ femineæ eulmus 
vaginæque ut in mare. Spiculæ 1-8 in apice ramulorum dispositæ, 
singulæ 2 cent. long. oblongæ cylindratæ demum cuneatæ plurifloræ 
basi spathà vaginiformi ipsà dimidio breviore sutfultæ. Flores breviter 
pedicellati. Perianthii segmenta fere ut in mare nisi paullo latiora. 
Staminodia 3. Ovarium trigonum nigro-castaneum abortu 2- loculare. 
Stigmata 3 recurva longiuscula exserta. 
Ad Pr. B. Sp. (Ecklon; Zeyher, 61-5; Mundt., Kromrivier 
(Drége, 32, 33, 364 ex Presl) g. (Zeyher, 539, 4341), ad Winter- 
hoëck (cklon), Uitenhage (Krauss, teste Hochstetter), Krebs, teste 
Linkio, (Drège,30, 35) 9. 
/ 88. R. spinulosus (Kunth Enum., 3, p. 402); ramis compressis ; 
vaginis subulato-mueronatis; ER masculis 1-4 compressis cunea- 
lis; Steud. Synops. 2, p. 25: 
