252 CYPERACEE (Clarke). [Ficinia. 
109. J. lineata, Nees in nh x. 160; Kunth, Enum. ii. 215. 
di aie obit Syn. Pl. Glum. 98. 
R. 8, com ta (C. B. Clarke in Bangg and ig oe Fl. Afr. v 
6s); head sg subspicate ; low ract 5); in. dis F. com mmutata, 
Kunth, eo 25 6 ; Boeck. in Linnea, xxx vii. 71. Tsolepi roasiate, 
Linnea 161. Ficinia gracilis, Nees in Linnea, viii. 91. purges 
gracilis, Nose in Linnea, vii. 
So RICA : without locality, a Pag 17! Harvey, 360 
bet 
Coast ieee Riversdale Div n Great Vals pots and Toth elks 
River, Burchell, 6576! Mossel Bay Div. 5 - ye as Kloof, Gill? Humansdorp 
Div.; grassy places in Lange Kloof, near Kromme River Heights, pun 2692! 
Uitenhage Div.; near ee 000 ft. , Drége, 7419! Albany Div. ; 
tops of hills near Grahamstown, 2000 ft., MacOwan, 186 ! 1973! Var. B, Stellen- 
bosch Div., Ecklon, 1894 at 
CentraL Region: Somerset Div.; Bosch Berg, 4000 ft., MacOwan, 1970! 
ft. 
ASTERN REGION: Pondoland, Bachmann, 115 ! Natal, Buchanan, 89! 332! 
Also found on Kilimanjaro in Tropical Africa. 
38. F. latinux (C. B. Clarke); glabrous; stems 5-Gin. long, 
rigid; sheaths pale brown, fimbriate; uppermost leaf 2 in. long, 
linear, rigid ; head scarcely + in. in diam., dense, with 10-12 spikelets, 
compound (a second per A head added on one stem); bracts 9, 
up to lin. long, linear, rigid, spreading, a little dilated at the base; 
glumes ovate-lanceolate, sub-obtuse, much striated, er style 3-fid, 
searcely dilated at the base ; gynophore small ; mee obovoid, 
trigonous, truncate at the top, black, transversely eigen: 
Coast Reaton: Uitenhage, Ecklon and Zeyher! in Lubeck Herbarium. 
ah <a at Kew. 
of the transversely rugose nut, this was associated 1 in herb. 
iene with 5 tenuifolia, Kunth; from which it differs in the 5 rigid bracts 
imp, ying a onal La rg and the rigid thicker hoes. The truncate, almost 
emarginate most Ficinias, which have a nut with a depr ressed- 
pyramidal Bs 
39. F. setiformis (Schrad. Anal. Fl. Cap. 45); glabrous; stolons 
clothed by pale-brown gen oe seales 4 in. long, harden ning 
into tough rhizomes +5 in. in dia to 4-8in. long in herbarium 
examples ; stems 4-12 in, es tufted. slender but rigid, not setaceous, 
each carrying one head ; sheatl s subentire, uppermost ‘truncate, wi 
a well-developed leaf ; leaves 4-2 the length of the stem, 3'5 in. or 
less green-marked ; lowest bract 1-22 in. lar to t 
leaves, much dilated and Pig or at the base ; — chestnut, 
striate, enti ot seari ; flower-glumes ovate, acute, m ronate, 
or mpty, often obtuse, more or less searious; stamens 3; an 
fence with small linear- lanceolate white crests ; nut 2 the jength “al 
the glume, obovoid, trigonous, smooth, black, microscopically reticu- 
late ; style about + he ‘Ten net th of the nut, branche es 3 linear, long; 
gynophore obconic, dark-brown, margin with 3 obtuse lobes in W well- 
