242 CYPERACEX (Clarke). [ Ficinea. 
SourH AFRICA: ab pnd Drege, 75! 
Coast Recion: Uitenhage Div.; Bcklon ? Algoa Bay, Forbes ! 
No uae in the Kew Herbarium. 
The more orbicular than that of F. x eid hag not more smooth. The 
Charo: is 5 still suite reduced to a minute tuber 
i E. punctata Tsien in Flora, 1845, 758); head of 10-12 
spikelets ; bract {-} in.; otherwise as F, leiocar pa, but a little larger 
in all its an 
Coast R : Uitenhage wilh ; “es the sources of streams in the Winterhoek 
Mountains, cava Herb. Boissie 
No specimen in the Kew Rota 
The spikelets are a good deal anion Alga se of F. leiocarpa, the nut larger, 
the gynophore larger and 3-toothed ; it may be only a a state of F. leiocarpa, 
but the “ay is very much shorter and different in chara 
x. 13. F. filiformis (Schrad. Anal. Fl. Cap. 46); glabrous ; stolons . 
a 
nd rhizome 0; stems 2-8 in. long, densely tufted, setaceous, with 
4-5 dievated dbo angles (between these apparently dotted), carrying 
1 head of 1-3 (rarely more) sessile spikelets; leaf-sheaths scarious, 
white or diseoloured, broad, rolling up and wearing fie ae lacerate- 
fimbriate), uppermost leafless ; leaves as though a prolongation of the 
midrib of the sheath, sometimes 2 the length of the stem, terete, very 
similar to the stem but sle nderer bracts not more than 2, lower as 
ier a continuation of the stem 1~—1 in. long; spikelets 1-4 by 
vs ey in., 4-12 flowered, pi ie or brown; glumes pear 
glume, margins and tip of glume searious, not ineurved; stamens 35 
anthers linear-oblong, yellow, crested ; style much shorter than the 
nut, linear, deciduous, branches linear, ee nage gynophore distinct, 
obpyramidal, margin 3-lobed; nut 2 the leng of the glume, roun 
trigonous, obovoid-truncate, about as broad te smooth, finally a 
leaden-black green-tinged. Nees in Linnea, x. 173, excluding 0 
contorta ; Kunth, Enwn. ii. 253 partly ; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 59. 
Schanus jiliformis, Lam. Ill. i. 135. S. olt og lng ae Enum. 
ii in 82 . & 
Steud. in Flora, 1829, i. 146. “B sllpueoas Steud. Nomenel. i. 6 
in syn. and ii. 540. Isolepis oliganthes, Nees in Linnea, Vl. 508. 
I. marginata, Dietr. Sp. Pl. ii. 110. F. pumila, Steud. Syn. Pl. 
Glum. ii re Baothryon crinitum, Dietr. Sp. Pl. ii. 94. 
! 
Sourn AFR without eT Zeyher! Thunberg, fait Pappe, 90° 
109! "Mucthtieong, 427! Drég 
Coast REGION: Cape Div: ; Table Mountain, Ee 873 ! Milne, 2 237! 
M rod Sa ons Bay, Wright, pa Mac Gilliv oT Devils M a 
Eck Tulbagh Div. ; mountains in Boer Meee of New Kloof, 1000 ft ft, 
Hac Oran fest, ean -Afr., 1689! Worces .; Dutoits 
Dré. edon Div. ; Hoaw Hoek femmes 2000 ft., Schlechter, 7425 saa! 
AL ReGtion : Worcester Div.; near Touws River Station, Bolus, 7 
i. grows on Kilimanjaro at an elevation of 10,000 ft 
