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Fieinia.} CYPERACES (Clarke). 255 
glumes in other species; nut 2 as long as the glume, obovoid, tri- 
gonous, smooth, black ; style not longer than the nut, branches 3 
long, linear ; gynophore short, obconie, teeth 3, often rather long. 
chenus scartosus, Thunb. Prod. 163 71. Ca . ed. Schult. 91. 
S. filiformis, Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 260, excluding syn. of Lam. Melan- 
eranis scariosa, Vahl, Enum. ii. 239 ; Schrad. Anal. Fl. Cap. 49, 
t. 2, fig. 4; Neus in Linnea, x. 140; Eunth, Enum. ii. 264; Steed. 
in Flora, 1829, 153. M. nigrescens, Schrad. Anal. Fl. Cap. vs 
ees in Linnea, x. 141. . gracilis, Nees in Linnea, ix. 287 
Kunth, Enum. ii. 265. M. rigidula, Nees in Linnea, x. 141; ; 
Kunth, Enum. ii. 265. Scirpus scariosus, Roem. et Schultes, Syst. 
u. 61; Mant. 40, not of Thunb. Hypolepis scariosa, Nees \\ in 
Linnea, vii. 521, eo nigrescens, Nees in Linnea, vii. 522.— Pluk. 
Alm. t. 416, Sig. 
Souta Arrica: without locality, Thwnberg, Sieber, 105! Bergius! KR. 
Brown! Boivin, 490! Hope! Menzies! Harvey, 386! Mund and Maire ! 
Coast REGION: Clanwilliam Div. ; Lange aa ra 1000 ft., Drége / 
e Town ! 
I 00~—3' 
Rehmann, 908! MacGillivray, 413! Drege! MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. 
Norm, Aust.-Afr., 1895! Ecklon, 866! Cape Flats, easel Cape Town and 
Simons Bay, Burchell, 8541! Worcester Viv. : mountains above Woreester r, 
! 2672! oe i yher ! Eli 
ft., Schlechter, 7682 ik Knysna Div. near the Keurbooms River, Burchell, 
5138! at the Ford a of the Knysna am “Burchell, 5521! Uitenhage Div 
¢ er, 948 
CENTRAL vida “Som erset pe. ; at Commadagga, Burchell, 3293! 
Bosch Berg, 4000 ft., Wiccan: 1971 : 
zZ ESTERN REGION: Little Lena yh and! Harde Veld, 2000-3000 ft., 
“eyher, 4378! near Mieren Kasteel, below 1000 ft. , Drége. Modder Fontein 
ae 4000-5000 ft., Dréye? Kamies Bergen, 3000-4000 ft., Drége ! 
¥. is no t easy to nsomy ngs how any confusion arose between this and 
8 scariosa, Nees, as there is similarity in structure, nt it be said that a 
ract of the present plant. nto a flower-glume of F, scart 
a 45. F. fastigiata (Nees in Linnza, x. 170); glabrous ; if er 
ha 
| tdly any seen (fide Boeckeler is slender ae - stem in. 
ong, tufted, slender, each with 1 head; leaves 4-12 in. pee xs in. 
broad. at the base, ‘that on the uppermost sheath shorter; bracts 
r 
ista 
far, crest minute; nut 2 the length of the glume or 
(a e for th : horter “than 
h ge for the genus), trigonous, smooth, brown ; style shorte 
ig li. 78. F. picta, Nees in Linnea, ix. 292. Schanus 
gag Thunb. Prod. 16; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 91, not of Lam. 
cpus fastigiatus, Thunb. Prod. 18; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 99. 
eynert ARICA without locality, Thunderg, Pappe, 101! Drége! Ecklon and 
Coast Recion : Cape Div.; near Wynberg, Drége, 164! 
