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1086. Kniphofia Wylie, NV. #. Brown [Liliaceae];  affinis 
K. pauciflorae, Baker, sed foliis scapo aequilongis, floribus 
numerosioribus confertis lacteis et pedicellis duplo brevioribus 
differt. 
Folia 30-45 cm. longa, 3-5 mm. lata, linearia, acuta, glabra, 
marginibus laevibus. Scapus cum racemo 8-10 cm. longo folia 
subaequans. Bracteae 5-6 mm. longae, concavo-ovatae, acutae, 
patentes vel deflexae, membranaceae. lores plus minusve deflexi, 
Pedicelli 1-1°5 mm, longi. Perianthium anguste infundibuliforme, 
supra ovarium leviter constrictum, lacteum; tubus 1°3-1'4 cm. 
longus ; lobi 2 mm. longi, ovato-oblongi, obtusi. Stamina haud 
exserta, antheris nigris. 
: . Zululand; at an altitude of between 600 and - 
900 m., Wylie in Herb, Wood, 8996. 
ima decurvato-reflexa toto coelo diversa. 
_Laxe caespitosa. Culm? plures, 15-25 em. alti, filiformes, subin- 
curvi, obtuse trigoni, laeves, inferne vaginis aphyllis brunneis 
] a . . 
lateribus concavis. Styli basis conica, decidua. Stigmata 3, 
mediocriter longa. Rhachilla secundaria complanata, viridis, 
binervis, apice non auriculata, nuce brevior. 
8S. Arricsa. Cape Colony : Summit of Great Winterberg, under 
rocks, 2570 m., Galpin, 5605. 
The discovery of this species supports my view that the evolution 
of the Caricoideae has started from Schoenoxiphium (see Kiikenthal, 
in Engler’s Pflanzenreich, Heft 38, 1909, p. 24). This becomes 
especially evident if we compare Schoenoxiphium filiforme with 
Carex microglochin. Both species have the same habitus, the same 
filiform-convolute leaves, the same simple inflorescence. Both pos- 
sess utricles which become deflexed as they mature, and both have in 
common a morphologically very important character, namely, early 
deciduous female scales. ‘Thus the only essential difference left is in 
the perfect formation of the partial spikelets in Schoenoxiphium 
Jiliforme : a basal fertile Q flower and several ¢ flowers, the later 
terminating an elongated secondary axis, whilst in Carex microglochin 
the ¢$ flowers are suppressed and the secondary axis Is reduced to a 
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