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Restio (Latin, rope, alluding to the use made of the plants in S. 
Afr.). Restiaceae. Perennial herbs with a tufted or creeping rootstock, 
of little horticultural significance: sts. terete, compressed or 
4-sided, with remote sheathing lf.-sheaths, usually more or less 
mucronate, sometimes prolonged into a linear blunt lf.: male and female 
infl. similar or dissimilar, spicate, spikes solitary or spikelets 
numerous in spicate or panicled cymes; fls. dioecious, 1-bracteate; 
perianth usually of 6, sometimes 4 segms. in 2 rows, rarely none; ovary 
2- or 3-celled: caps. 2- or 3-celled, or by abortion 1-celled, 1 seed 
in each cell. About 170 species, half of them from S. W. Afr. the 
remainder from S. W. Austral. R. subverticillatus, Mast. Sts. erect, 
3—4 ft. high, with verticillate branches: sheaths about 1 in. long, 
coriaceous, striate above, membranous, spreading, acuminate, smaller 
sheaths foliaceous from beneath a 2-lobed hyaline apex: 
perianth-segms., male, broadly oblong, the lateral villous-keeled, 
female broader: caps, obliquely ovate, 1-celled, 1-seeded. S. Afr. G.M. 
43:76.
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