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simplicibus crassitie minimi digiti ; vaginis majusculis ; inflorescen- 
tia mascula panicula!im cymosa diffusa ; inflorescentia feminea minore 
magis compacta ; floribus majuseulis subglobosis spathis persistenti- 
Hm elongatis omnino velatis. — Restio mneronatus. Nees in Linnæa, 
5, p. 660. Elegia mueronata Reich. ex Kunth Enum. 3, p. 415; Steud, 
Synops. 3, p. 262. Elegia panicoides Kunth Enum. 8, p. 470, quoad 
pl. mase.; Steud. Synops. 2, p..262. Dovea mucronata, Mast. infra 
t. 2, p. 1-6, 1. 5, p. 6. 
2. Culmus erectus 3-4 ped. et ultra teres simplex crassitie minimi 
digiti cinnamomeo-fuseus impresso-punetnlatus basi vaginis per- 
sistentibus  approximatis nigro-castaneis sursum increscentibus 
dense obsiti. Vaginæ 2-3 poll. long. deciduæ laxe convolutæ mu- 
cronatæ coriaceæ striatæ basi purpurascentes, superne ad mar- 
gines concolores membranaceæ intus nitide. Inflorescentia mas- 
ula 2-3 poll. long. paniculatim-cymosa  pluristachya , spathis 
magnis apertis vaginiformibus interstinctis. Spiculæ 1-floræ. Brac- 
teæ laxe imbricatæ oblongæ coriaceæ fuscæ longe acuminatæ. Flores 
subtrigoni. Perianthii segmenta externa coriacea ferruginea late 
ovata acuminata ; segmenta interna coriacea oblongo-lanceolata exter- 
nis dimidio longiora. Anther:e lineares apiculatæ quam filamenta lon- 
giora. Inflorescentia feminea masculin:e conformis. Spiculæ 1-floræ. 
Bracteæ ovatæ acuminatæ coriaceæ ferrugineæ dorso medio nonnun- 
quam villosæ, Flores subtrigoni bracteas duplo triplove superantes. 
Perianthii segmenta rigida ferruginea; externa æqualia late ovata 
subcymbiformia carinata glabra mucronata ; segmenta interna confor- 
mia ecarinata externis paulo longiora latioraque fructum vix supe- 
rantia. Capsula coriacea ferruginea triloba trilocularis superne sty- 
lorum vestigiis superata angulis eminentibus longitudinaliter dehis- 
cens. Semen in quovis loculo solitarium pendulum oblongum sub- 
trigonum corneum. Testa membranacea lasa longitudinaliter plicata, 
plicis undulatis. 
M TAN Elephant Reed nominatur. 
B. Sp. (Masson, Drège, 34, Table Mountain et Valley Riviers 
i CUN 563, 7026) cx et. t prope Cape Town (Bolus 2878 g). 
. 6. D. thyrsoiden (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 10, p. 251); culms 
teretibus vel (siccitate ?) subtetragonis; inflorescentia maseula cymosa 
densa oblonga; inflorescentia feminea lineari-oblonga pluristachya spa- 
this convolutis magnis demum deciduis munita ; perianthii segmentis 
rigidis mucronatis. 
x Culmi erecti simplices juncei (8-4-ped?) teretes v. compressius- 
culi; crassitie pennæ olorinæ impresso-punetulati cinerei, Vaginæ 
culmeæ laxe tubulatæ coriaceæ ellipticæ fuscæ impresso-punetula- 
