Ficinia. | CYPERACE® (Clarke). 241 
round, many- striate ; sheaths basal, Van produced inge ae eh 
brown on one side, not staan spikelets 3-8, sesaile, Yur in 
linear, slightly exserted ; gynophore obeonic, exceedingly short, 
mnieroscopically 3-toothed. — 17 aA ie XxXXVlil. 64. Isolepis 
repens, Nees in Linnea, ix. 291; x. 158. 
ae AFRICA: rales trig Drége, 7405! 
Coa gion: UWite Ths, by t the Zwartkops River, 50-500 ft., 
tahoe, 4392! Ecklon taut Poe. 660! 
. F. sylvatica (Kunth, Enum. ii. 254); glabrous; rhizome 
(seen) very short, much divided ; stems 10-22 in. long, medium- 
sized, not setaceous, strongly 4—5- angular (in Bolus, 2693, aes 
much less angular) ; leaves reduced to eaths ; sheaths basal, = 
ted, produced on on e side, lanceolate, ac a linear red bristle word 
in, he is a spikelets 2-5, sessile, 1-1 by +), in., cylindric, 
XXXvi.65. F. membr anacea, vai. B, Kunth, Enum. ii. 252. Scirpus 
trispicatus, Linn. Ff. Suppl. 108; T. hunb. Prod. 17; Fl. Cap. ed. 
Schultes a Bh. Sparmanni, Lam. Lil. 1. 140. 
Bnoe AFRICA: without locality, Thunberg, Zeyher, 4387 ! 
y, Thunberg, Zeyher, 
Coast Region Swellendam Div. ; sig? Swellendam, 1000 ft., meg a 
vorge Div.; near George, below 1000 ft., Drege! Kny sna Div.; mp 
rg Bolus 2693! Uitenhage Div.; van Stadens ew, 1000 it, ” iain 
yher 
10. F. rugulosa (C. B. Clarke); glabrous; rhizome 0; stems 
8 in. long, densely tufted, setaceous, strongly 5—6-angular, minutely 
rough granular, with 1-3 spikelets; sheaths near the base, long, 
harrow, scarious- brown, closely wrapped round the stem ; lower bract 
7 though a continuation of the stem, 1 in. long; spikelets 2 i in, 
ong, ellipsoid, obtuse, dark-brown ; glumes elliptic, hardly keeled, 
oneave with ineurved margins ; style e 3-fid. 
ION shill the west end of Groene 
Valles ke. Oe Lone Div. ; on sand-hills near 
This plant has the general a rance of F. filiformis and i 
neighbours, which are chen eesily Yodo ss; but the smoothly sllipsoid spilt 
ith the edges of the glumes incurved do not suit the F. filiformis group. 
Feviose filiform stem is peculiar to this species, and the serongiy aiscleel 
qwinquangularis, Boeck. 
iL. F. lei 1); rhizome not seen; 
Sia: elocarpa (Nees in Linnea, x. 171); rhizo: Sndlge 
ai8 16-24 in. long, slender; sheaths quite leafless ; ea -8 
spikelets, globose « ; bracts 2, spreading, lower 1-2 in. lon ng ; glumes 
rl ‘cuminate, mucronate ; otherwise as F. sylvatica, Kunth. Boeck. 
i oe Zuxvin. 77. 3, ‘tomibracicata, Nees in Linnea, ix. 292. 
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