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Stems of female plants erect from a creeping rhizome, slender, 
simple or rarely sparingly branched at the base, terete, smooth, buff 
with minute purple specks, 2 — 3 dm. high, about 1 mm. in diam. at the 
base; leaf-sheaths closely convolute, oblong, obtuse, subulate-mucro- 
nate, coriaceous, with narrow-membranous margins, buff, densely 
purple-speckled, 8 — 12 mm. long; spikelets 2 — 6, sometimes solitary, 
in linear spicate cymes, linear-lanceolate, acute, 4 — 6-flowered, 6 — 
8 mm. long; spathes tightly convolute, oblong, obtuse, mucronate, 
coriaceous, with narrow-membranous margins, marked like the sheaths, 
3 — 5 mm. long; bracts closely convolute, oblong, obtuse and pale- 
membranous at the upper margin, mucronulate, cartilaginous 3 — • 
3-5 mm. long; flowers shortly stipitate, lanceolate, acute, 3 mm. long; 
outer lateral perianth-segments lanceolate, acute, villous-carinate, 
cartilaginous; the anterior segment lanceolate, obtuse, dorsally rounded, 
cartilaginous, glabrous, slightly shorter than the lateral ; inner segments 
oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, membranous, distinctly shorter than the 
outer; ovary 2-celled, ovoid, tapered above into a minutely puberulous 
stylopodium; styles 2, slender, united to shortly above the base; 
capsule 2-seeded, broadly ovoid. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Caledon Div., Houw Hoek, 
Schlechter, 7416, $ ! Ceres Div., near Klein Vley, Skurfdebergen, Koude 
Bokkeveld, Schlechter, 10218, $ ! 
Allied to R. triflorus, Rottb., but differs in having creeping rhizomes, 
smooth stems and fewer spikelets. 
Restio Brownianus, Pillans, comb. nov. = Hypolaena? virgata, Mast., Journ. 
Linn. Soc. x, 268 (1868). H. Browniana, Mast., FI. Cap. vn, 132 (1897). 
H. subtilis, Mast., Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxix, Beibl. 66, p. 15 (1900). 
Restio conspicuus, Pillans, comb. nov. = Hypolaena ? conspicua, Mast., Engl. 
Bot. Jahrb. xxix, Beibl. 66, p. 15 (1900). 
Restio Dodii, Pillans, comb. nov. = Hypolaena membranacea, Mast., Engl. 
Bot. Jahrb. xxix, Beibl. 66, p. 14 (1900). 
Restio Schlechteri, Pillans, comb. nov. = Hypolaena Schlechteri, Mast., Engl. 
Bot. Jahrb. xxix, Beibl. 66, p. 15 (1900). 
Restio cymosus, Pillans, comb. nov. = Leptocarpus cymosus, Mast., Engl. 
Bot. Jahrb. xxix, Beibl. 66, p. 10 (1900). 
Restio brachiatus, Pillans, comb. nov. = Leptocarpus brachiatus, Mast., Engl. 
Bot. Jahrb. xxix, Beibl. 66, p. 9 (1900). 
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