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Fimbristylis.| CYPERACEX (Clarke). 201 
though reduced sometimes to a few spikelets; glumes ovate, gla- 
brous, concave, apne distinct keel; style 2-fid ; nut with 5-10 
longitudinal ribs on each face ; otherwise as F, dichotoma.—C. B. 
Clarke in Hook. vs a Brit. Ind. vi. 636. F. communis, Kunth, 
mum. li. 234. FF. dregeana, Kunth, Enum, ii. 232. F. poly- 
morpha, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 14, Scirpus diph yllus, Retz. 
Obs, v. 15. 
H AFRICA: ke locality, yao 65 
Katanart Rearo Orange Free State, Buchanan, 147! Transvaal; Hout- 
bosch, aes nn, 562 22 | 5623! 7714! “ant without precise locality, Kuntze, 
243! 
KastERN REGION: bag arma Umtata River, below 1000 ft., nei ote 
Pondoland; between the Umtentu River and Umzimk vl River, Drege! and 
without precise locality, p Behe sapicat 113! 125! Griqualand East, near uerre 
dale, 2500 ft., Tyson, 1191! Natal, Drége, 4371! 4373 ! Se SLI L 
11g! 338! 339! 340! ott Gorka rd, 487! Wood, 6012 
All as and warm-temperate regions. 
The mos ant and widely- pidore bs se sedges, sapien. 3 eet most 
narrowly fingnived) bec names, The Cap amples are mo y tall, with 
broader leaves than in F. dichotoma ; F, dreg ati i, Ktnith; is 3-4 in, ee but has 
much stouter, sisted epiketeta shen i lichoto ma 
4. F. 
on a very short, or p aaa rhizome. 8-30 i . long ; leaves ane 
4-8 in. long, or hardly any, hairy or siiteate A ;j5 in. broad or usually 
less; umbel compound or simple, usually of 5-15 pedicelled spike- 
lets, sometimes of 1 spikelet ; bracts 3-2, usually short, occasionally 
as long as the umbel; spikelets 1 by 4-1 in., ovoid, Tusty-brown ; 
glumes round-backed, ovate 
the upper half of the back ; stamens 3-2 ; style longer than the nut, 
airy, branches 2, rather short; nut scarcely 2 the length of the 
glume, bic onvex, obovoid, smooth, , pale brown, not, or very “obscurely, 
longitudinally ribbed. Kunth, Enum. ii. 236; Boeck. in shag 
‘xxv. 16; C, B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 
sieberiana, Kunth, Enum. ii. 237. Scirpus ferrugineus, Linn. Sp. 
Plant. ed. ay TA. 
Sourn Arrica: withoat Joes Harvey 
wk Re@ton: Bathurst Div.. Fish Ri ae below 1000 ft., Drege! Komgha 
ei River, Flana an, en 1! 
HART REGION = Orange Free State, Buchanan, 145! Transvaal ; 
Bac Vata Rebman, 4793 ! 
: RN Ree Pond os nd; sr the mouth of the Umtsikaba Bla : 
Dre. ! see petrol precise locality, Bachmann, 112! Natal; Du seg ip, 
Buchanan 2! 25! 55! Co: ic -land, \Guthe rland! Delagoa Bay, Kuntze, 
All tropical and warm -temperate regions, 
This abundant Fimbristylis is ee Salis y named in herbaria from th 
a white or greyish hairs top of the backs of the glumes; but t 
glu i tems have only 1 
spikelet iy Soy sibately pelea deat Sarre ey's 7 58 
2 ®. F. exilis (Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. ii. 98) ; annual, hairy ; 
stems tufte 
‘. 4-16 in. long, rather slender, hairy or rarely neatly 
