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Sect. 8. EvaAarwaATA.  Bractec inferiores vix vaginate. 
5. S. Tuunpereart (Nees in Linnea, x. p. 201): spicis com- 
positis anguste oblongis densis; gluma elliptica, multistriata, 
marginibus arcte involutis, basi connatis, rhachillam viridem 
scabram involventibus.— Beckeler in Linnea, xli. p. 955, pro 
majore parte.—Kemicarex, sp., Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. iii. 
p. 1072. 
Cxspitosa, rhizomate elongato repente (Backeler), Culmi 1i 
dm., leves, striati, vix trigoni. Folia eulmos sspe superantia, 
lata 2-3 mm. Inflorescentia longa 3 cm., lata 6 mm., viridis, 
ramis infimis vix distantibus; bractes latius ovate, scariosw, in 
dorso 1-8 nervis viridibus striate, scepius aristatz aut foliiformes ; 
peduneuli subnulli. Spicule pro maxima parte unisexuales; 
feminea 1-flore cum rudimento. Gluma feminea longa 2-3 
mm., specie utriculiformis, marginibus autem (in exemplis a me 
visis) imbricatis fere usque ad basin liberis. Rhachilla cum ¢ 
partibus glume fæmineæ squilonga, latius dilatata, binervis, margi- 
nibus scariosis pilosulis apice subito angustata neque auriculata. 
Nux ellipsoidea, utrinque angustata, subacute trigona.—Culmi 
Caricem arenariam (quod ad aspectum) referunt. 
Caput Bone Spei (Dr. Pappe). 
6. S. Eckroxi: (Nees in Linnea, x. p. 200, non Beck.) : foliis 
angustissimis; spica oblonga, densa; fructibus gluma multi- 
striata intectis, anguste lanceolatis, subrecurvatis, bracteam multo 
superantibus. 
Culmi longi 23 dm., leves, striatuli, vix trigoni, basim versus 
plurifoliati. Folia sepius culmo multo breviora, rarius subequi- 
longa, lata 13mm. Spice longs 14 cm., late 1 cm., bracteis 
inferioribus longe superate; rami imi vix pedunculati, neque 
bractea vaginati, spieulas sessiles (in fructu substellaformes) pro- 
ferentes; spicula ultima maseula, inferiores androgyns; rha- 
chilla inter florem femineum et masculos, cum gluma foeminea 
subequilonga, lineari-obovata, complanata, apice non auriculata, 
binervis, marginibus hyalinis minute ciliatis. Bractez long: 3—4 
mm., ovate acute aristateve, scariose, in dorso 3 nervis viridibus 
striate. Gluma feminea longa 5-6 mm., elliptico-oblonga, mar- 
ginibus arcte involutis, fere liberis. Rhachilla cum gluma fere 
sequilonga, interdum gluma longa terminata. 
Caput Bone Spei (Zeyher, n. 4441). 
