OF FERNANDO PO. 23 
composito, involucro 1-3-phyllo spiculis breviore, foliolis ovato-lan- 
ceolatis acuminatis dorso carinatis, spiculis 5 8 lineari-oblongis com- 
pressis vix distiche imbricatis. 
Hab. Clarence Peak, alt. 9000 ped. (fl. Dec.) 
Herba 3-6-uncialis, cnlmis basi subbulbosis folia longe superantibus. 
Folia 1-2 pollicaria sulcata, acuminata, vix }’” diam. vaginis brevibus 
rufis non nitentibus. Capitulum 3” long.  Spicule confertz, lineari- 
oblongz, squamz sub 8-10, infime paucze latiores vacue, cæteræ sub- 
zquilonge, oblongo-lanceolatz, acute, vix carinate, opacz, glaber- 
rime. Stamina 3, discus et sete hypogyne 0. Ovarium parvum 
oblongum trigonum, stylo gracili basi simplice, stigmatibus 3 filifor- 
mibus. 
I am doubtful of the genus of this plant; the scarcely distichous, scales 
of the spikelet differing from Schenus, to which it is otherwise referable. 
The scales are, however, not always regular in Schenus nigricans, and in 
Chetospora, which must surely be reduced to Schenus, the scales are 
sometimes imbricated all round. A. Richard’s Hemichiena bulbosa, to 
which this is a good deal allied, has distichous scales, but this plant differs 
materially from Hemichlena in wanting the disk. I do not see how it 
differs from Cyperus, with many species of which it further agrees in the 
margins of the scales decurrent on the rachis. 
GRAMINE. 
l. Deschampsia czespitosa, P.B. D. latifolia, Hochst. ; A. Rich. Flor. 
Abyss. ii. 413. 
Hab. Clarence Peak, alt. 10,100 ped. 
Also found in Abyssinia and most other temperate parts of the globe, 
but not hitherto in South Africa. 
2, Trisetum lachnanthum, Hochst.; A. Richard. Flor. Abyss. ii. 416. 
. Hab. Clarence Peak, alt. 7900-9000 ped. (fl. Dec.) 
_ A very distinct species, closely allied to T. virens, Nees, of the Indian 
mountains. 
3. Festuca Schimperiana, A. Rich. Flor. Abyss. ii. 433. 
Hab. Clarence Peak, alt. 8500 ped. (fl. Dec.) 
The spikelets are rather larger than in the Abyssinian specimens, but the 
species is evidently the same. 
4. Brachypodum sylvaticum, R. & S. 
Hab. Clarence Peak, alt. 7000 ped. 
A native of Abyssinia (B. flexum, Nees). 
5. Gymnandropogon, sp.? (Schimper, Plant. Abyss. 1853, No. 1006.) 
Hab. Clarence Peak, alt. 9000 ped. (fl. Dec.) 
This, which approaches very closely A. glabriusculus, Hochst., of Abys- 
sinia, further seems identical with another and perhaps undescribed species 
of that genus, collected by Schimper, and quoted above. 
