Ficinia.] cyprrace® (Clarke). 251 
filiform, dilated at the base ; head 2 in. broad, depressed ovoid, dense, 
chestnut ; glumes ovate, mucronate ; nut 2 the length of the ’ glume, 
obovoid- ellipsoid, trigonons, black, minutely transversely lineolate ; 
style-branches 3 linear; gyno ophore small, a age margin 
entire P. composita, Kunth, Enum, ii. 263 partly. Hypolepis com- 
posita, Nees in Linnea, vii. 525 partly. Lsolepis acr ostachys, Schrad. 
oer Fl. Cap. 23 in note. Scirpus acrostachys, Steud. in Flora, 
Coast Region : Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Ecklon, 870! 
Steudel, who originally des ca this species, had only the upper gk: of the 
stem, eke all Ecklon Sacre ns show. The plant, however, doe match 
BEY. species; it is nearest, ekene to F. tenuifolia, Kunth, oie pe more 
‘itinisebies spikelets and a more compound head. 
36. F. dasystachys (Cc. B. Clarke) ; Biainies stems 16 in. long, 
tufted on a short woody rhizome, each with one head; uppermost 
a curved, long, not setaceous ; bracts or more, spreading, 
lowest 12 in. long, similar to the leaves, very a dilated at the 
base ; ; head iin. broad, manifestly compound, dense, with numerous 
spikelets, pale brown : ‘aliens ovate, apiculate ; aisisiin short for the 
genus, with small linear-lanceolate ‘white scabrous crest; nut (not 
ripe) 2 the length of the glume, narrowly obovoid, trigonous ; style 
shorter than the nut, branches 3 linear, long; gynophore small, 
obpyramidal, margins entire. 
Coast Region: Komgha Diy. ; pastures near Komgha, 2000 ft., Flanagan, 922! 
leaves ‘i —s tae ee hes sa of ai? cl agi _ they 
are ex tohidtinety on w, flat ded on the back, and 3-4-nerved to 
the tip, where hey sar riainite pele Sa a do the lhe in a white daltoaity. 
7. 37. F, gracilis (Schrad. Anal. FI, Cap 44) ; gl labrous ; rhizome 
3 by 3 in,, clothed b y rigid, lanceolate, sate, dull brown scales 3 in, 
ia (usually Oin ane examples) ; s 6-16 in. long, tufted, 
ach with 1 head; leaf on the ee Se pre long, often 3 the 
Ing, lowest ite in, similar to the odecs not much dilated at the 
bas €; head ae - in diam., manifestly mpoeee of 6-20 ep 
Saas mucro, or subacute; nut 2 ngth 0 the glume, 
bovoid, trigonous, ashy-black, minutely transversely interrupted 
neolate ; style shorter than t ut, branches 3 linear, long; 
Linnea, x.172; Kunth, Enum. ii. 256; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 
a P. Poiretii, Kunth, Enum. ii. 255; Boeck. in i XXXVil. 
5. re gracilis, Poir. in Lam. Eneye. vi. 763, in Eneye. 
Suppl. v » 102; Spreng. in Flora, 1829, i., Beil. cil. Isolepis 
yracilis, joie in Linnea, vii. 493; x. 161, not in Wight, Contrib. 
