246 cyPERAcEm® (Clarke). [ Ficinia. 
(probably sometimes fewer) ; leaf-sheaths narrow, brown-red, not 
fimbriated, lower leafless, uppermost usually with a narrow linear 
green leaf 1—2 in. long "(but s sometimes leafless); bracts 2, lower 
microscopic tip; anthers hardly crested; nut 2 as long as the glume, 
obovoid, trigonous, smooth ; style shorter than the nut, branches 3 
linear, long 3 gynophore iad short. F. lateralis a, Drege, 
Pflanzengeogr. sagen te 
Ast Rera@ion: Paarl Div.; Paarl Ng ey 1000-2000 ft., Drége! 
apes Div.; eee Kloof, 2000-4000 ft., Dré 
cay ee s tanmiiiepirg: te in the eae err in the numerous spike- 
lets a 4 ibe f Drage’s F. acuminata seems to bel ong to the 
present iden ‘ance ro wiikelote ie reat 5 é File head. 
24. F. kunthiana (Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 67); stem 6-9 in 
long; leaves long, epithe that on the uppermost ect veal 
2 the length of the ste m (sometimes overtopping it); lowermost 
bract 1-2 in. ve ; spikelets 5-10 in the head ; nut ellipsoid, ‘fully 
mue 
F, aga. Boeck., or /. acuminata, Nees. F. acuminata, Kunth, 
Enum. ii. 256 partly. 
Eastern ReG@Ion: “ Between Cape Colony and Natal,” Drége, 3939! 4390! 
The above locality is taken from the label on Drége’s specimens at Berlin. 
25. F. MacOwani (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Con- 
epodt: Fl. Afr. v. 640); stems 1-2 ft. long, very slender ; leaves 
1—1 the length fe the stems, setaceous; spikelets 10-30 in a head; 
glumes ovate, acute, conspicuously white-edged ; otherwise much as 
Ff. elongata, Pecek, and F, kunthiana, Boeck. 
Coast Raion : Swellendam Div. ; mountains near Swellendam, 1000-1400 ft., 
ee rapy and Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust. - -Afr., 13899! Kuntze, 247! 
s does not — any one of the agg givers Lesa , but the four might 
be united ft is se r be don osis widened to include 
acun a (the fo with few “spikelets Ms oy fed d), the difficulty would 
26. F. cinnamomea (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect- 
Fl. Afr. v. 637) ; glabrous ; thizome very short; stems 4-16 in. 
v 
uppermost sheath leafless, lower pale brown with aie setaceous 
leaves; bracts 2, lower 1~3 in. long, suberect ; spikelets 4 in. long, 
pale brown; glumes ovate; keel exeurrent: anthers linear-oblong ; 
crest small, lanceolate ; nut 2 the length of the glume, obovoid, tri- 
gonous, smoot leaden-black minutely-white reticulated by the 
outermost layer of withered cells; style shorter than the nut, 
branches 3 linear, long; gynophore rather prominent, obpyramidal, 
margin entire, 
