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side and flattened on the ventral side, 4 — 5 mm. long; segments ovate, 
subacute, coriaceous, thinner at the margins; the outerdateral keeled, 
sometimes shortly and sparsely villous on the keel; inner segments 
exceeding the outer by about 1 mm. ; ovary oblong, obtusely 3-lobed, 
3-celled; styles separated at the base. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Malmesbury Div., without 
precise locality, Marloth, 10158, d and $ ! 
Closely allied to D. aggregates, Mast., but may be distinguished by its 
paniculate-cymose inflorescence, shorter spathes and larger spikelets. 
D. chartacea, Pillans, D. paniculatae affinis, sed caulibus robustioribus, spi- 
culis pluri-floris, segmentis exterioribus perianthii aristatis, seminibus 
minoribus differ t. 
Stems caespitose, erect, simple, terete, rigid, smooth, about 4 dm. 
high, 2-5 — 2-75 mm. in diam. at the middle; leaf-sheaths loosely con- 
volute, broadly oblong, obtuse, mucronate, coriaceous, thinner at the 
margins, prominently nervose-striate, dull green, with golden iridiscence, 
pale brown at the caducous apex, 2 — 2-5 cm. long; male inflorescence 
not seen ; female inflorescence spiciform, densely many-flowered, linear- 
oblong, about 6 cm. long ; spathes persistent, loosely convolute or erect- 
spreading and flattened, linear-oblong at the base to oblong-lanceolate 
at the apex, acute, chartaceous, nervose, soon lacerate, buff or light 
brown, mostly 2 — 2-5 cm. long; spikelets usually 2 in the axil of each 
spathe, subsessile, conical, compressed, 4 — 6-flowered, 12 — 15 mm. 
long; bracts closely convolute in their lower part, erect-spreading 
upwards, oblong-lanceolate, long-attenuate, filiform-aristate, long-fim- 
briate and white-membranous at the margins, otherwise cartilaginous 
and chestnut-brown, 12 — 15 mm. long (including the awn); perianth 
distinctly stipitate, oblong-lanceolate, triquetrous, straight or slightly 
curved in the upper part, dark chestnut-brown, 9 — 10 mm. long; 
perianth-segments oblong- lanceolate, acuminate, cartilaginous; the outer 
slender-aristate, membranous at the margins, nearly twice as long as the 
inner; the lateral slightly carinate; ovary oblong, 3-lobed, 3-celled, 
chestnut-brown; styles 3, apart at the base; capsule deeply 3-lobed, 
3-seed; seeds elliptic, smooth, with a depressed-conical funicle, 1-75 mm. 
long. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Stellenbosch Div., summit 
of Sneuwkop, Marloth, 3635, ? ! 
Allied to D. paniculata, Mast., but distinguished by its stouter 
stems, several-flowered spikelets, aristate outer perianth-segments and 
smaller seeds. 
Elegia lacerata, Pillans, E. asperiflorae proxime accedit, sed bracteis segmentis- 
que perianthii laceratis facile distinguitur. 
