238 CYPERACEH (Clarke). [ Ficinia. 
in diam., compound, dense, pale brown ; bracts 5-22, radiate, mneqURy 
p to in. long, resembling abbreviated ott spikelets 1—4 in. 
long, 6- -16-flo wered, usually male at the top (some wholly male 
spikelets oceur) ; © Baers elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, tip blunt, 
keel weak, otherwise nerveiess ; stamens 5 ; anthers linear- oblong, 
cranis radiata; ef. Schrad, Anal. Fl. Cap. 51 in Obs. Schaenus 
radiatus, Linn. f. Suppl. 101. Scirpus radiatus, Thunb. Prod. 18 ; 
Fl. Cap, ed. Schult. 98. Isolepis radiata, Roem. et Schult. Syst. ii, 113. 
Sisbnavnia radiata, Nees in Linnea, ix. 292 ; x. 183. 
biabaiey: A¥xica: without locality, Sieber, 149! 263! Pappe, 104! Bergius, 41! 
ped 
oast REGION: Eee rg Div.; on the Piquet Berg, 1500-3000 ft. , Dréie, 
16580! Cape Div. ; mountain tops between Nord Hoek and Fa'se Bay, Thunberg, 
Cape Flats, Zeyher, 72! Bure ‘hell, 195! Table Mountain, Milne, 230! Simons 
vie 
Div. Afr., 
Caledon Div. ; Nieuw pore Houw Hoek Mountains, pooner $188! saenee 
near the Pidinict t River, 800 ft., Bolus, 4228! 
2. F. ixioides (Nees in Linnea, ix. 292) ; = ap tee stems tufted, 
/ 3 oe in. long, with 1 head ; leaves all near “the base of the stem, 
by {5 n., rather rigid; sheaths scarious-edged ; ition 3, sub- 
edged ; stam 3; ers nak iainake y ‘crested ; n 
obovoid, plane-convex, smooth, on an obconic gynophore ; style long, 
linear, brane ng, linear. Linnea, x.180; Kunth, Enum. 
264 ; "Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 57.. F. seariosa?, Drege, Pflanzen- 
geogr, Documente 82, 83, 185, nut of Nees. 
vied AFRICA: without locality, R. Brown ! Drége, 564! Ecklon and Zeyher, 
65! ed 
Coast Region: Worcester Diy. ; Drakenstein Mountains and Dutoits Kioof, 
3000-4000 tt., Dréye, 7382 ! 
. F. scariosa (Nees in Linnea, ix. 292); glabrous; rhizome 
Short, horizontal, stout, woody ; stems close together, 4-20 in . long; 7 
sibuat t, with one spikelet ; leaves often 1 as long a s the stem, sub- 
cylindric, hardly ~; in. in " diam,, sheaths | Gites eiged: lawer bract 
erect, shorter than the spikelet, linear; spikelet 3-11 by 4-3 in. 3 
glumes very many, } in. long, elliptic, obtuse, convex, irene 
