34 I1CONES PLANTARUM, 
Candles erecti, simplices, 3-quetri, 1-2-pedales, uti tota planta glabri. 
Folia inferiora caulem ssepe superantia, superiora pauca dissita, 3-6- 
pollicaria, breviter vaginata, omnia angu sta, erecta, acuta, rigidula, subtus 
prominenter venosa. Spicularwm capitulum terminale, semipollicem 
diametro, additis haud raro 1-3 inferioribus paullo minoribus ad axillas 
foliorum subsessilibus. Sypicule parve, in quoque capitulo sepius 
si 
, sepi 
acutis suctaitee exalatis, 1 rarius 2 exterioribus vacuis. Stamina 1-2. 
Spicule 2 1-flore, glumis spins 3. Sete hypogyne 0, Stylus tili- 
ormis, ramis stigmatosis 3. None 3-costata, erostris, disco hy pogyno 
param prominulo. 
he genus Preroscleria now comprises three species, differing but 
little from each other except in stature and length of leaves. The 
he third 
species, P. capitata, Benth., is the Scleria capitata, Willd., described 
by Boeckeler in Linnea, xxxviii. 435 as a Diplacrum, in which the 
T only know from descriptions, I should refer to it Spruce’s n. 3763 
from the inundated sandy banks of the Guiania river.—G, Brenruam., 
Fig. 1. Female spikelet. 2. Male spikelet with the subtending bract. 3. Bract. 
4. Pistil. 
Puate 1348. 
TRIANOPTILES CAPENSIS, Fen:] 
Cyperacea, Tribe RuyNcwospores, 
T. capensis, Fenzl in Endl. Gen. Pi 138 
in Flora 1829, 188: Boeckel. in Linnea, xx 
Has. South 
Harvey. 
Ecklonia capensis, Steud. 
Xvili. 229, 
Africa, Table Mountain, near Cape Town, Ecklon, 
Caules ceespitosi, 3—4-pollicares. Folia ad basin caulis graminea 
caulem squantia v. breviora. Spiculee plares, Sessiles, fasciculate: ive 
t . ? 
