250 CYPERACE® (Clarke). [ Ficinia. 
Doorn Hoogte, Zeyher, 4400! Table Mountain, Fleck! Riversdale Div.; 
Hooge — near the Zoetemelks River, below agin fb Bone - Uitenhage 
Div.; between the Coega sie Page Rivers, below 1 00 ft., Dre 
CE eae eaoien Calvinia Div.; B okke Veld sends as Vien Vallei, 
2000-2500 ft., Drége, 2 2458! 
The i Sevier Drége’s) refer to the typical F. levis, Nees, whic 
the flower-glumes (as throu ee out the genus) glabrous. are is closely iid t 
F, hat po (w ay wit ch it agrees as to points not mentioned in the abov 
description), but has pin stems and leaves, and less eine spikelets. 
The plant of Drége, whic unth made a species, F. dregeana, differs from 
F. levis, Nees, by having the flower-glumes hispid on t the upper part o of the back. 
Future oa erties s of it may cause 2g to be admitted as a distinct species, ‘inagh 
peach has united it with F. lev 
34. F. brevifolia (Nees in Linnea, ix. 292) ; glabrous; rhizome 
hardly any seen ; stems 1-2 ft. long, tufted, somewhat stout, each with 
1 head ; sheaths scarious, torn, permost ‘with a short setaceous leaf 
(up to 2 in. long), lower sheaths often with much longer setaceous 
leaves ; bracts or more, spreading, lowest 1—4 in. long, setaceous, 
usually much dilated orbicular and scarious at the base; head 
frequently 1 by 1 in., conical, evidently compound, dense, with 
numerous dark- act spikelets, but there are numerous much smaller 
heads, some only + in. long with 3 spikelets; glumes ovate, eer 
a 
ra: 
Kunth, Enum. ii. 263. Melaneranis radiata, Vahl, Enum. ii. 39; 
ef. Schrad. Anal. Fl. Cap. 51 in Obs. Hypolepis composita, Nees in 
Linnea, vii. 525 partly. 
/, Van. §, atrocastanea (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr 
636); spikelets and beads shining black-chestnut. F. striata a, Drége, Plan 
zengeogr. Documente 82, 185. 
Coast REGIon: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, 1000-3500 ft., Drege, 1588! 
Bolus, 4761! MacGillivray, 415! Schina! Devils Mountain, 1200-1400 ft., 
Bolus, 3850! MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm. 1398! Simons Bay, Milne, 
234; MacGillivray, 416! Wright! Paarl Div.; Paarl Mountains, 1000-2000 ft., 
Drége! Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, 2000-4000 ft., Drege! Var. 8, Cape 
Div. ; mountains near-Cape Town, below 1000 ft., Drége ! 
This species varies gre 3 it is usually stout with stout setaceous 
leaves and bracts; but he ‘oletins made by Drége in pers = Division, at 
000 ft., have very slender stems, small head of 3-5 spikelets, and filiform 
bracts. One of Drége’s piaphen as a node, with 3 leaves, 28 i in. haat the 
of the stem—an abnormality. 
35. F. acrostachys (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect- 
Fl. Afr. v.635); g eee Ages eo 8 in. in length, very slender ; 
lowest. bract placed m an 1 in. below the head, 3 in. long, 
filiform ; two. bracts ale nM the beats spreading, lower 1 in. 
