Ficinia.] cyPeracem (Clarke). 239 
Enum. ii. 251; ree in Linnea, xxxvli. 57, Ff. conifera, Nees in 
linnea, x. 181 ; nth, Enum. ii. 251. Scirpus trigynus, Linn. 
Mant. 180, i ha habitat. S. bulbosus, Rotth. Descr. et Ic. 46, 
t. 16, jig. 2, Se heenus. scarivsus, Vahl, Enum. ii. 210, not of Thunb. ; 
Steud. in Flora, 1829, 134. S. deustus, Berg, Fl. Cap. 10, fide 
Vahl. Isolepis? scariosa. Nees in Linnea, vii. 501; viii, 85. 
2a, scariosa, Dietr. Sp. Pl. ii. 98 
ICA: without loc: ach ae 290! Sieber, 8! 103 ! Pappe, 117! 
Ecklon se nd Zeyher, 139! 140! Bergi 
Coast REGION : Piquetberg es ; on the Piquet Berg, 1000-2000 ft., ey ! 
pe Div. ; LDN i on own, Zeyher, 1773! Devils Mountain, 300 ft., 
Honw Hoek Mountains, 1800 ft., MacOwan, Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1726! Koco 
Div. ; between Zwart Vallei and the West end of Lange Vallei, Buvchal 1, 5695! 
TRSTR FERN REGION Avie Namaqualand; between Uitkomst and Geelbeks 
Kraal, 2000-3000 ti, Dre 
4. F. Zeyheri (Boeek. in Linnea, xxxvii. 58) ; glabrous ; rhizome 
very short, horizontal, woody ; stems densely tufted, 8-11 in. long, 
very straight, slender, wiry, with 1 spikelet; leaves all near the 
of the stem, + the length of the stem, wiry, filiform ; sheaths 
tich-brown, lacerate, uppermost carrying a leaf; bracts 2, lower 
7 slightly overtopping the spikelet, linear ; spikelet 2 byt 1 in., 
void, few-flowered, brown ; glumes ovate- oblong, subolitum, convex 
on the ack ; stamens 3; anthers linear, not crested; gynophore 
ae ? 
obeonie ; nut gg ice! 2 the length of glume, obovoid, plane- 
vonvex, smooth, brown ; style a little shorter than the nut, slender, 
branches 3 ae linear. 
“ea AFRICA: iar dol eal R. Bro 
t ReGton : Cal on Diy. ; on the wax ‘Berg, near Caledon, 1000-2000 ft., 
Pa 75! 4379 
/st 5. F. pusilla (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 
Afr - V. 641); glabrous; roots fibrous ; stems 2 in. long, setaceous, 
hal spikelet ; leaves all near the base of the stem, often } the 
a 8 
slightly dilated, notched ; bracts 2, lower erect, 4 in. Jong, linear; 
‘pikelet 2-2 in, long, ellipsoid, 6-flowe red ; glumes boat-shaped, 
ovate, obtuse, many-striate, chestnut or chestnut-red; gynophore 
seonio style linear, branches 3 linear, very long. . bergiana, 
"ar. B, capillaris, C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 
Afr. Vv. 636. F. capillaris, Nees ex C. B. Clarke l. c. 636. 
al REGIon : Cape Div.; near Cape Town, Rehmann, 1182! 
43801 STERN Region: Little Namaqualand ; Harde Veld, 2600-3000 ft., Zeyher, 
ne specimen in the Kew Herbarium. 
Zeyher’s 4380 is quoted by Drage in Linnea, xx. 251, as an Acrolepis. 
bod ate is not alia to F. Zeyheri; it looks like a starved example of 
ek suas Schrader ; but the leafless top sheath is quite unlike. The flowers 
young, 
