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,3. JEleogiton (?) longifoUm iV^ ah E, — E. foliia 

 radicalibus raginantibas cnimo longioribus ilaccidis trinervibua 



nervis lateralibns crassis raris diraricatis , spicula panciflom, 



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bracteis ovatls, inferiori acainmata spicula longiori, sqiiaims 

 obtusis mucronatisferrng;iiieo-iiToratis. -^ Rhynchospora oli- 

 sQssaiiho. Herh MndUi et Rhyndiospora ^lomerafa^ ^aA7. 

 ejttsd, Herh, — C. b, Sp, — Ob summam cnm Eleo^itone 

 pfirvuta ' mmilitudiiiem hue refero plantulam , cnjns spicuW 

 oipiies uoii. nisi leTissima ostendtmt gemtaUum (staminum 3.) 

 vestigia. Badix densa, fibrosa., Folia ad basinGnlxiii4 — 6> 

 3-L_^ pollices loiiga- diniidiam lineam lata, jam (in sicco) 

 plana, trineryia, hiuc inde xamnlo infercepta, raginis albis 

 membranaceis se inyicem ampleofentia, Culmi 2 — 3 pollices 

 longi, teretes, jam compressi, moUes sed urassinsuuU, infra 

 spicnlam nou constiicti. Spicula exigiia, pallida, lineam Ion- 

 ga , a squama inTolncrali infiiua amplectenf e quasi acumine 

 snperata. Squamae omnes fenuesj membrannceae. An JicrO' 





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Sect. n. Stylo hifido* 



A» Eleogiton ruhicundus JV. ah E^ — stylo bifidff, 

 •culnio stolouifero ramis foliosis, foliis linearlbns obsolete tri- 

 neryiis venis transversal i bus indistiuctis , spicnlis paucifloris, 

 ^ractea vaginali snpendri subnlato - miicronata spiculam suli- 

 aequante, sqnamis aculinsculis' latere purpurascentibus, ca- 

 ryopsi laevii ©.? — Variat: «. culmo praclongo natante, fo- 

 liis angustissimis, --* In flumine „ Zwartkopsrivier " alt, t (Ui- 

 teiiliage); — /?. cnlmis sen scapis/ascicnlatis , foliis praelon- 

 gig latioribns fascicnlisque deeurvis (planta Junior ), — ^^ 

 „Constantiam**^ in districtu Capensi. Floret a JDecembre inFe- 

 bruarium. — Ab Ehfluitante netis supjra expositis, praeser- 

 tim foliis snbenerviis areniisqiie sat tlistinctiis* 



