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6. F. micrantha (C. B. Clarke) ; glabrous; rhizome thin, woods 
stems tufted, 2-4 in. long, wiry, with 1 hy, signe leaves 1 the 
length of the stem, in the lower part flat, ,~, in. wide, in the upper 
part thick, terete, rigid ; sheaths stout, red, uppermost bearing a leaf; 
bracts 2, subersdt, lower as though a continuation of the stem, ee in. 
long; spikelet 2 by 5 in., 6-flowered, white, hard; glumes boat- 
obtuse point; nut nearly as long as the glume, long-ellipsoid, 
trigonous, glistening with series of points (i.e. the outermost layer of 
quadrangular cells) ; gynophore conspicuous, Bnet ob-pyramidal, 
ending in 3 la neeolate teeth opposite the 3 angles of the nut-base. 
F. albicans, C. B, Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 
Afr. v. 685 erty 
Coast REGIO oe Div tees e Mountain, Rehmann, 652 
From its whi sap ie tile as a superficial resemolance to ?. albicans, Nees 5 
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? 7%. ¥. aphylla (Nees in Endl. Prodr, Fl. Norf. 23); glabrous ; 
rhizome sometimes short, sometimes 8 in, long, erect, slender, woody, 
black, clothed by scales, dividing, carrying tufts of stems where its 
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1 in, in diam., of 3-8 ellipsoid spikelets ; a ovate, obtuse, 
many-striate, brown, oe incurved ; stamens 3; anthers Litient- 
poste; pe: a3 nut 2 the length of the glume, ) mb id, biconvex, 
= a. oo 
linear longer than the style. Endl. Atakta, 12, t. % F. lateralis, 
Kunth, Enum. ii. 254; Boeck. af Sinmun. xxxvii. 63. Schaenus 
lateralis, Vahl, Enum. 211. be Buen, et po 
ea} x. 166. Sei irpus ‘trunca atus, Sieber e. 
fl. Norf. 23. Isolepis arcuata, Ecklon ex Kunth, Enum, i. 
South ArFrica: without ear Sieber, 109! Bergiws! Chamtsso, ae 
Pappe, 89! 
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: Cape Div.; near Cape Town, Harvey, 187! boggy place 
phe Simons Be, Milne, a Cape Sandhills, Htactitivray, 410! sand- fate 
between Tyger Berg and Blue Berg, below 500 ft. ! Paarl Div. ; Paarl 
” Moustaten 1000-2000 se te Weeenses Dec x River Kloof, ” 1000- 
000 Dréjye; Uitenhage Div.; near the ae of Van Stadens River, 
MacOwan, 2124! Port Weboth Div. ; sand hills along the coast, E.S.C.A- a} 
Herb., 171! 193! Komgha Div. ; grassy slopes near ie mouth of the Kei River, 
Flanagan, 1781! 
pens (Kunth, Enum. ii. 255); glabrous; rhizome : 
ivielerig 1 in diam. (21 in, frag roones pest clothed by hard dark- ; 
brown nearly- quadrate scales ; stems § olitary (or in separate clusters) ; 
on the rhizome, 4-16 in. long, medium-sized, not setaceous, nearty | 
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