248 CYPERACE® (Clarke). [ Fiecinia. 
paradoxa, Nees in Linnea, ix. 292. Isolepis paradoxa, Schrad. 
Anal. Fl. Cap. 22. I. eckloniana, var. B, Nees in Linnea, vii. 506, 
excluding a Scirpus laciniatus, Thunb. 
Var. B, minor (C. B. eet in — and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. 41); 
heads much sale hardly + ; bracts Sg ted at the buse, waa 
scarious fimbriated edges. F’, porbenbe var. B minor, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 
fae F Pas rate E. Meyer ew C. B. Clarkein fea ae Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 
Afr. ¥ 
Ps Var. var argyropus (C. B. Clarke in ee and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. 
641); glumes white fimbriate-ciliate on the edge ; bracts not fimbriate-edged ‘s 
the base. F. Tk he Nees in Leg x.177; Kunth, Enwm. ii. 258; Boeck. 
in oe. 70. 
AFRICA: ly ey — i aan) Bergius, 184! Pappe, 92! 
Drive, "2454 Var. 8, D r. y, Drége! 
REGION: i ‘ape hg ts, near td iam rg, Drége! 
Hoo nia Zeyher, 4419 ! So es yeen — wn and Sim mere fe ae 3519! 
Table Hountaip, Schlechter, 584! near Tygerberg, Bure 1,973! Mossel Bay 
Div. ; sand-hills near rit land oe at Mossel Bay, Burchett 6246 ! 
The variety argyropus is not in the Kew Herbarium. 
e 29. F. laciniata (Nees in Linnea, ix. 292); leaves flat, gig In. 
broad; sheaths scarious, brown or white, more or less torn ; lowest 
bract flattened, not pointed at tip, scarious, little fimbriated oie the 
base; otherwise as J’. paradoxa, Nees. Linnea, ee 
Enum. i. 259; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 73. ‘Scirpus ‘icensitua 
Thunb. Prod. 17; Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 97. 
oni AFRIcA: without locality, Thwnberg, Drege! Wallich! 
Tt Re@ion: Cape Div.; near Cape Town, Zeyher! Uitenhage Div., ge 
2367! ' “2368! Port Hlizabeth Div., Herb. Schinz, 152! 153! E.S. CLA. 
Eastern Region: Pondoland, Bachmann, 106; Nietal. Clairmont Flat, 150 ft., 
Wood, 3998! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 458 
a 30. he truncata (Sehrad. Anal. Fl. Cap. 43, t. 2, fig. 3); glabrous; 
stolon 
‘antacihier into wiry rhizomes; stems 4-12 in, long, rather rigid, 
each carrying one dense subglobose head ; leaves 2 by 3 in., parallel- 
sided, flat, truncate, thick, with scarious white margins which wear 
away, on the upper face 6-10- ribbed, erin covered by prominent 
ona bracts 3-2, lowest 1-2 in. ‘shorter than the he ad, dilated 
glume, obovoid, trigonous, smooth; style much shorter than nut, 
branches 3 linear, long; gynophore rather long, narrow obpyram idal, 
margin very lightly 3-toothed. Nees in barra ea, x. 167; Kunth, 
Enum. ii. "360; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 80. Sci cirpus truncatus 
Thunb. Prod. 17; ; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 97. per truncata, Nees 0 
Linnea, vii. 508. 
Coast Recion: Riversdale Div.; Hooge Kraal, near the Zoetemelks River, 
below 500 ft., Drége! Mossel Bay Div.; between “the Pescamgs 2 _. “ ossel 
y and Cape St. Blaize, Burchell, 6262! Uitenhage ; between e Coega 
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