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coriaceous, nervose-striate, scarcely membranous on the upper margin, 
red-brown, mostly 8— 10 mm. long; male spikelets 2—3, occasionally 
solitary, in spicate cymes, oblong to ovate-oblong, shortly tapered at 
the base, obtuse, many-flowered, 8 — 12 mm. long; spathes closely 
convolute, oblong, obtuse, subulate-mucronate, coriaceous, brown- 
membranous along the side margins, 4 — 6 mm. long; bracts closely 
enveloping the flowers, ovate, obtuse, mucronulate, coriaceous, smooth, 
straw-colour except at the chestnut-brown apex, 4 — 5 mm. long; 
flowers on short reddish stipes, oblong-oblanceolate, obtuse, 3-5 — 4 mm. 
long; outer perianth- segments oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, cartilaginous; 
the lateral navicular, villous-carinate; the anterior dorsally rounded, 
glabrous; inner segments lanceolate, truncate, hyaline; female spikelets 
resembling those of the male plant, but 1-flowered and slightly smaller; 
spathes as in the male, but 3 — 4 mm. long; bracts closely convolute, 
oblong-ovate, obtuse, mucronulate, coriaceous, smooth, straw-colour 
except at the chestnut-brown apex, about 3-5 mm. long; flowers on 
short red stipes, ovate 3-5 mm. long; perianth-segments oblong-lan- 
ceolate, obtuse or subacute, cartilaginous, subequal; the outer lateral 
segments navicular, villous on the upper half of the carina; the other 
segments dorsally rounded, glabrous; ovary 3-celled, ovate; styles 3, 
adjacent, free; capsule 2-celled; seeds cylindrical, studded with white 
tubercles. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Caledon Div., Houw Hoek, 
Schlechter, 5483, ?! 7382, d! 
Allied to R. Brownianus, Pillans (Hypolaena Browniana, Mast.), 
but differs in having larger spikelets, the ovary 3-celled and the styles 
adjacent. 
Restio Marlothii, Pillans, R. fraterno accedit, sed caulibus tuberculatis, peri- 
anthii segmentis florum ? quaternis differt. 
Stems caespitose at the base, erect, sparingly branched from the 
middle upwards, rarely simple, terete, rather slender, firm, rough with 
crowded tubercles, yellowish green, 30 — 50 cm. high, 1 mm. in diam. 
on the lower portion; leaf-sheaths closely convolute, oblong, acute, 
tapered into a straight subulate awn, coriaceous, nervose-striate, deeply 
white-membranous from the upper margin to near the apex of the awn, 
red-brown, about 1 cm. long; female spikelets solitary, oblong to ovate- 
oblong, obtuse, 3 — 5-flowered, 10 — 12 mm. long; spathes tightly con- 
volute, oblong, with a cartilaginous wing along each side, otherwise 
like the upper sheaths; bracts similar to the spathes, but paler, 5 
6 mm. long; flowers on woolly stipes, oblong or broadly wedge-shaped, 
4 — 5 mm. long; perianth-segments 4, deltoid-lanceolate, acute, caiti- 
laginous, equal; the lateral villous-carinate; the anterior dorsalh 
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