254 CYPERACEH (Clarke). [ Ficinia. 
Bolus, 4288 (the type of F. Bolusii, oe pea with tig 
ege 
er, and also referred to Ff. lithosperia re Boeck ; differs a good ial in 
l 
41. F. lucida (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 
Afr. v. 640); bracts brown with scarious margin; nut-bearing 
glumes more than 1 in. long, scarious, except the keel; half-ripe 
nut narrow-obovoid ; fae hore narrow, as long as a half-ripe nut ; 
otherwise much as s slender aia of . lithosperm 
ast Reeion : Clanwilliam Div.; Ceder Bergen, 2900 oa Shaw in Herb. 
Bolus, 6023 ! 
42. F. pinguior (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. 
Fl. Afr. v. 641); as though a stouter form of FP. lithospermea ; leaf- 
sheaths with very large white-scarious edges; bracts dilated at the 
base with white-scarious edges; spikelets leaden brown; nut-bearing 
glume obtuse ; nut — obovoid, trigonous, smooth ; otherwise 
ay as FP’. lithospe rma 
SouTH ite about locality, Harvey, 348 ! 
Coast Ree Cape Div.; Muizen Berg, 800-1200 ft., MacOwan and 
oh Herb. Fae. Aust.-Af7., 1896 ! Schlechter, 592! False "Bay , Robertson - ! 
43. F. pygmea (es in Linnea, xxxvil. 82) ; glabrous ; 
rhizome horizontal, 1-21 in. long in the dried examples, + in. thick, 
densely elothed by ovate- lanceolate, pale-brown > Y in. long; 
stems {-1 in. long, standing solitary, 1-1 in. apart, each with 
1 head ; leaves tufted, 1-21 y z5 in, dhapslicd near the base, 
solid upwards, trigonous bracts 33, ower 3-1 in. long similar to 
oie i i long 
elongate, acute; stamens 3; anthers linear, with short lanceolate 
scabrous white crest ; style slender, long, ip sect 3 linear ; pistil 
very young, carpophore of the genus minute, distine 
Coast Reeion : Clanwilliam Div.; Lange Vallei, near Pen Fontein, 
1000-1500 ft., Drege, 2464 
spikelets 1 (very rarely 2) in the Yoncte, vas small, weak, At: 
flowered ; nut-bearing glumes + in, long, lanceolate, acuminate, pale- 
brown, very thin, hardly striate, resembling the upper male or empty 
