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Thamnochortus consanguineus, Kunth, Enum. 437° -.. Hj 
oe 9, Kunth, Enum. iii, 430. 3 bromoides, Kunth, Enum. 
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eg Arrica: without locality, Sieber, 114, 2! 116, ¢! 223! Drége, 136! 
c ' REGION : Clanwilliam Div.; between Grasberg River and Watervals 
pba! 2500-3000 ft., Dréye, met 3! Cap e Div.; Devils Mountain, 1800 ft., Bolus, 
4753 | Table Mountain or Devils Mount tain, Vrége, 138a,2! Table Mountain, 
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Kloof, oe. Caledon Div. ; Nieuw Kloof, Honw Hoek Mountains, Burchell, 
8126, Jand ?! MacOwan, 3046, @! mountains of Baviaans Kloof, near Genadendal, 
Burchell, 7595 ,gand 9! 
Very variable and sometimes difficult to distingush from JZ’. elongatus, with 
which it is fre uently associated by collectors and in herbaria. The bracts of 
the latter plant are more straight- sided, deltoid, and not curved at the margins. 
8. T. erectus (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 419) ; stems 2-3 ft. 
eae aicudien, yellowish, puncticulate, white- spotted ; sheaths about 
in, long, closely convolute, coriaceous, dull brown, striate, thinner 
at the sharply acuminate apex; male spikelets numerous, in ter- 
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“a a platypteris (Kunth, Enum. iii. 429, 9); stems 2-3 ft. high, 
; ae terete, of the thickness of a crow’s quill, unbranched, white- 
thi a leaf-she aths 11-2 in. long, closely convolute, lanceolate, 
va © edges; male spikes numerous, in short, terminal, 
spike ea nodding panicles; spathes as long as or long 
lets, lanceolate, membranous, chestnut-brown ; spikelets { in. 
