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leaf-sheaths subpersistent on the lower parts of the stems, deciduous on 
the upper, loosely convolute, oblong, acute to obtuse, mucronate, 
coriaceous, chestnut-brown, chartaceous and paler at the apex and 
margins, striate on the upper half, 1 — 1-5 cm. long; male inflorescence 
paniculate-cymose, oblong, densely many-flowered, mostly 1 — 2 cm. 
long; spathes soon falling, lanceolate-oblong, acute, mucronulate, carti- 
laginous, chestnut-brown, the lower 1 — 1-5 cm. long; spathellae minute, 
membranous ; spikelets oblong with 2 flowers or transversely trigonous 
with 3 flowers, 3 — 3-5 mm. long; bracts ovate, obtuse, hyaline-mem- 
branous, 1-5 mm. long; perianth oblong, subterete, 2-75 — 3 mm. long; 
outer segments oblong-ovate, acute, membranous, with prominent mid- 
rib; inner segments oblong, subacute, cartilaginous, twice as long as the 
outer; female inflorescence spicate-cymose, linear-oblong, few-flowered, 
1 — 2 cm. long; spathes persisting during the flowering period, sheath- 
like, but smaller; spathellae minute or absent; spikelets obliquely 
oblong, 1 — 2-flowered, 2-5 — 3-5 mm. long; bracts deltoid, acute, mem- 
branous, with rigid midrib, 1-5 — 2 mm. long; perianth oblong, trigonous, 
2 — 2-5 mm. long; outer segments oblong, acute, cartilaginous; the 
lateral navicular, keeled; the anterior with prominent midrib; inner 
segments ovate-oblong, subacute, cartilaginous, equal with the outer; 
ovary pear-shaped; styles 3. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Cape Div., on dry clay 
slopes, Lion’s Head, Pappe in Herb. Mus. Austr.-Afr., 12850, d and ?! 
12975, ?! On clay slopes, north aspect on Devil’s Peak, Pillans, 3401, 
d and ?! Above Oude Kraal, Pillans, 3403, d and ?! Caledon Div., 
on clay slopes, Sir Lowry’s Pass, L. Guthrie in Herb. Bolus, 16622, ?! 
Zwartberg, near Caledon, L. Guthrie in Herb. Bolus, 16016, d! 
Distinguished from all other species by its closely and evenly arranged 
stems, like the teeth of a comb, along creeping rhizomes. 
Restio tuberculata, Pillans, comb. nov. = Leptocarpus divaricatus, Mast., 
Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxix, Beibl. 66, p. 9 (1900). 
Dovea nuda, Pillans, comb. nov. = Elegia nuda, Kunth, Enum. hi, p. 462 
(1841). 
Elegia thyrsoidea, Pillans, comb. nov. = Dovea thyrsoidea, Mast., Journ. 
Linn. Soc. x, p. 251 (1867). 
Leptocarpus gracilis, Pillans, comb. nov. = Hypolaena gracilis, Nees MSS. in 
herb. Sonder; Hypolaena? gracilis, Mast., Journ. Linn. Soc. x, p. 266 
(1867); DC. Monog. Phan, i, p. 375 (1878); Hypolaena gracilis, Mast., 
FI. Cap. vn, p. 135 (1897). 
