Ficinia.] CYPERACE® (Clarke). 247 
Centra Recion: Aliwal North Div.; Witte Bergen, Cooper, 635! 
EasteRn Rea@rton: Natal; Inanda, Wood, 1939! and without precise locality, 
Buchanan, 71! 
This differs from the very similar preceding species by the distinct gyno- 
phore. 
oody, yo In. in diam., obliquely descending ; stems clustered, 10— 
16 in. long, slender, each with one head ; leaves 1-2 the length of 
the stem, setaceous ; bracts 2, lower 1-3 in. long, dilated to 2 in. 
broad at the base, oblique, not appearing to be a ‘continuation of the 
stem ; spikelets 1 in. long, 6-10 packed very closely in the head, 
bro 
| @ 27. F. tenuifolia (Kunth, Enum. ii. 257); glabrous; rhizome 
w 
fine brown ; glumes “ovate, keel "distinctly exeurrent; nut } . the 
length of the glume, narrowly obovoid, a eg obtus e, “lead- 
coloured, with rather obscure transverse wavy li the outermost 
cells being short-oblong longitudinally) ; style rather shorter than 
the nut, branches 3 long, inear; gynophore very short (a mere rim 
dilated at the base of the nut), Boeck. in P bana Xxxvii. 67. 
Jilamentosa, Nees in Linnea, ix. 292. F. ayeniie Boeck. in Flora, 
1882, 15. F. gracilis, Schrader ex Kunth, ie _— Isolepis 
et Schulte tes. 5 # fibrosa, Nees in nak. ix. ‘992, 7. ee Steud. 
Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 98. Scirpus elatus, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 694. 
Sourn Arrica: without wens Ecklon and Zeyher, 72! Sieber, 207! 
Coast Rearon: Cape Div. ; Table Mountain, ng: os, pear 2864! Worcester 
Div. ; mountains near Bains “Kloof, 1500 ft., Bol s, 5309! 
In this species, Kunth says, “ gynophore we ”? = hatadien ra it is : obsolete.”’ 
It is a ring of looser r pale tissue at the bt foot of the nu ich 2 in no 
Wise ® distinguish from what I see in numerous species of Sei fee Pn 
Species, F, alter hicaie has a ar sapien ophore.’? F. tez Sen ge nth, 
re more closely allied ia Ke gracilis, Pi ha and to F, acrostachys, tain 
ts the preceding species, 23-25, 
ya 28. F, paradoxa folgea in Linnea, x. 178); glabrous; cog 
very short ; stems 6-16 in. long, each with one dense often sub- 
es head ; leaf- ig with prominent scarious margins recent 
much torn, ofte ten forming a white wool (but sometimes very little 
m as in Burchell, 6246), uppermost bearing a long leaf; leaves 
bracts often more than two, lowest 1-14 in. similar to the leaf, 
Pointed, base dilated, a searious t itieiied edge ; spikelets often 
20-30 in the head (sometimes on the same rhizome o y 3 or 4 
os in. long, 6-8-flowered ; glumes boat-shaped, ovate, obtuse, 
chestnut-red, nerves 6—9 on each side of the midrib, excurrent from 
the scarious edge as linear-lanceolate teeth, ferruginous or glistening 
waite, scabrous; nut 1 the length of the glume, obovoid : trigonous, 
e gil somewhat slong, obpyramidal, margin entire. Kunth, 
mum. ii. 258; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 72. F. laciniata, var. 
