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Ficinia.] CYPERACE® (Clarke). 245 
4-11 in, long, 4—5-angular, densely rongh by upward-pointing 
minute papille:, carrying 1 head of 4-1 chestnut-red spikelets ; upper 
sheaths lanceolate, scarious- brown, lesitiner not fimbriate, some of the 
lower sheaths bearing leaves, 4-5 by ~;—} in., flat, striate ; bracts 2, 
duced but obtuse-tipped, much longer than in the 7 preceding i alent 
anthers large, linear-oblong, crest very short, white ; style 
Coast Region : George Div, ; on the Post Berg, near George, Burchell, 5932 ! 
on mountain flats near Gavees, ‘Dre €g6, 3933 ! 
A strongly-marked species, but only young examples have been seen, 
? a 21. F. tribracteata (Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 62) ; oot no 
thizome nor stolon present ; stems densely tufted, 4-12 i n. long, 
subentire ; 
obscurely transversely wavy-lineolate; style very short, branches 3 
long, linear. F. trisd stachya, Kunth, Enum. ii. 252 partly , Drege, 
Pflancengeogr. Documente 116.  F. Hiliformis, Drege l.c. 88, 188. 
a AFRICA: without locality, Pappe, 103 
T ReGion;: Cape Div a Meee Mocatain 1000-2000 ft., Drege! Caledon 
( Genalesaa 3000-4000 ft., Dréy 
t., 
x 22. F. acuminata (Nees in Linnea, ix. 292); stems 7-20 i 
ong; leaves often 1 as long as the stem, but leaf of the cb 
sheath often short ; * nut- -bearing glumes obtuse with a most minute 
chestnut oy red excurrent mucro; nut smooth or obscurely and 
ating | sehieubsts: otherwise as F. sited stb oeck, Kunth, 
- li. 256 partly ; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 66. F. ignorata, 
1899. Cyp. eon, li. 18, Scirpus acuminatus, Steud. in Flora, 
8, 146. Isolepis acuminata, Nees in Linnea, vii. 601; x. 162. 
Sh Log AFRICA: without localit , Pappe, 
pe fauet es: Cape Div.; Table Simei: 2000-3000 ft., Hcklon, 858! 
1 is plant resembles F. involuta, Nees, and might be a form of it with a 
Sia Microscopically mucronate. Boeckeler says the spikelets are sometim 
next (te ead ; but these eines in Herb. Kew are faanalite referable to the 
enwifolia) series 
We 23. F. elongata (Boeck, in Linnea, xxxvii. 65); glabrous ; 
Pa clothed with rigid etic lanceolate seales, hardening into 
ough rhizomes -1- zo In. in diam. ; stems 1-2 ft. long, very slender, 
et carrying one globose head of 10-30 spikelets in the type plant 
