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and Sunday Rivers, below 1000 ft., Drége! near the mouths of = fisitesy and 
Zwartkops Rivers, Z eyher, 4418 ! near Van Stadens River, Thunber 
7 31. F. premorsa (Nees in Linnea, x. 167); leaves without 
scarious margins, 5—6-ribbed on the upper face, without prominent 
stomata ; otherwise as F, gee: Schrad. Kunth, Enum. ii. 270; 
Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 80. F. truncata, var. premorsa, C. B. Clarke 
in Durand and Schinz, Skeet Fl. Afr. v. 645. 
Coast Recion: Bredasdorp Div.; Elim, 300 Schlechter, 7706! Uitenhage 
Div., Cahn) ! Ecklon! Drége! 
a 32. F. ecklonea (Nees in Linnea, viii. 91); glabrous; rhizome 
hardly any seen; stems 12-20 in. long, tufted, rather stouter than in 
the species preceding each with one head ; uppermost leaf-sheath 
scarious, torn, gre bearing a ee leaf; leaves 2-10 in. long, 
setaceous ; bracts 3 or more, spreading, lowest 1-3 in. long, similar 
to the leaves, sometimes much dilated at the base, with wide scarious 
edges sometimes very little dilated; head 3—% in. a sage er 
heads occur), subglobose of 12-24 spikelets ; spikelets 2 b 
cylindric, obtuse, dull brown; glumes ovate, obtuse, “the whit 
margin excee ingly narrow, microscopically toothed, appressed ; 
anthers apiculate, i.e. hardly crested ; nut 2 the length of the glume, 
obovoid, trigonous, smooth ; style shorter than the nut, branches 3 
linear, long ; gynophore obconic, margin entire. ees in sg bee 
x. 178 ; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 74. F. Steudelii, Kunth, Enu 
. 255. Scirpus eckloneus, Steud. in Flora, 1829, 148. Tiolapts 
Steudelit, Schrad. Anal. Fl. Cap. 20. J. ee Nees in Linnea, 
vii. 506, var. a. J. Ecklonii, Dietr. Sp. Pl. ii. 116. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Bergius, ae R. Brown! Krauss! 
7! 
Coast Recion: Cape Div.; Simons Bay, Lig i — Mountain, Ecklon, 
B6O Stellenbosch Div. ; Lowry s Pass, 700 ft., 250! Caledon Div.; 
Hou oek Mountains, 1000- 3000 ft., Zeyher, 4490! “Gienkage Div., Ecklon 
and Bas 177! 
7. 33. F. levis (Nees in Linnea, ix. 292) ; glabrous, yal the back 
of the glumes ; rhizom e (in Burchell 427) long, } in. dia ., straight, 
clothed by distant lanceolate dull-brown jemi 2 in. ide ng; stems 
12-16 in, long, clustered, regia each with 1 head; sheaths entire, 
uppermost with a leaf 2-6 in ng, !z in. wide at the base, trigonous, 
some of - lower leaf-sheaths produce mueh 
longer and broader leaves ; braets 2-3, spreading, Lerwage t 1-1} in. 
long, similar to the leaves, aed at the base ; head 1—} in. in iam., 
ose, brown; glumes ie apiculate or snewroent, glabrous in 
other examples, but in Kunth’s F. dregeana hispid on the back in 
the upper part; nut + the food of the glume, ellipsoid trigonous, 
pyramidal at either end, smooth, dull intense black ; s tyle-branches 3: 
ees in Linnea a, X. 170; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvil. 75. F. dregeana, 
Kunth, Enum. ii. 259. F. preusta, Nees in Linnea, ix. 292. 
Coast Raton ; Cape Div.; near Cape Town, Burchell, 427! Cape Flats, at 
