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Ficinia.} Cyprrace® (Clarke), 257 
scarious torn margins, sometimes brown and much less eee 
spikes 1 in. diam., globose, gg ee brown, 7 1-8 a 
simply ‘spicate ; ; bracts 1- long, similar the leaves, over- 
topping the inflorescence, dilated at. the base, i. Cees gens 
conspicuous, or sometimes hardly dilated es all; spikelets } in. 
ovoid, 4-10 in each spike; glumes ovate, nerve ex ai 2 nut 
hardly 2 2 the length of the glume, obovoid, uaa smooth ; ’ style 
shorter than the nut, branches 3 linear, long; gynophore “small, 
Nees in Linnea, x. 176; Kunth, Enum. ii. 261; Boeck. in Linnea, 
xxxvul, 85, eens bulbosus, Linn. Mant. 198. S. spicatus, 
Ca: 
Scirpus siiioaa, Rottb. Descr. et i 53, t: 16 6, Jig. 8: Steud. 
i in Flora, 1829, ra S. vaginatus, Thunb. Prod. 17; Fl. Cap. 
ed. Schult. 96. 8. bicapitatus, Poir. in Lam. Encye. vi. 761. 
S, biceps, Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. ii. 134. Isolepis bulbosa, 
Nees in Linnwa, vii. 507, excluding syn. Scheenus bulbosus, Thunb. 
SourH Arrica: without eons kyr Sieber, 110! 163! R. Brown! 
Bergius, 181! Petit Thouars 18! Re n, 485! Harvey, 344! 
oast Rr Lay Cape Div Ca “it Town, Bolus, 4864 ! Rehmann, 1796! 
s Bay, Burchell, 326! Tas ns tau mp, Pappe ! Constantia, Zeyher! Table 
Mountain, Ecklon, 112! Drége! Schlechter, 347! near Rondebosch, Bolus, 
4493! Worcester Div. ; Mountai 2 -. Drége. 285 
‘opes of the Drakenstein Mountains, near Bains Kloof, 1600 ft., baie 4076! 
— ndam Diy.; bet I} —— and Zonder Kinde , — 
Riv 
7492! Kuysna Div v.; sand-hills near the west end of Groene Valle, Burchell, 
es 
as peas Div. » Ecklon pear Zeyher, 666! Port Elizabeth Div. 5 along the 
Cast rag ere 
/ 50. F. s aif a (Kunth, Enum. ii. 262); glabrous; stolons long 
se ey to 6 in. long), clothed by pale- -brown striate lanceolate 
Scales 2 in. flags hardening into wiry rhizomes 3}; in. in diam 
stems 4~—16 in. long, tufted ; leaves often as long as the stem, hardly 
in. bro solid and triangular in the upper half; 
“Sheaths white or brown, often much torn, sometimes less con- 
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spikelets, rine solitary, stand 1-1 apart subspirally, sessile; bracts 
e leaves, usually overtopping the spike ; spikelets + in. 
long, ellipeod, hard, shining chestnut or chestnut-red ae es 
eg ume, obovoid-ellipsoid, tri 
serine h nut, bra 5.3 linear, long; gynophore obeonic, 
0 oe subentire. Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvil. 86 @nus 
= ol. 16; Fl. Cap. ed Schult. 94. S. bulbous 
B, ue i 6. 8. dispar, Spreng. Neue Entd. 1 3.8 
P.§, ap. 40, t. 4 ” fig. 33 Nees in Linnea viii. 9 
teheri, Schrad, Avil, FI. Cap. 48 ; Nees in Linnea, x 190. 
Papport, ATBICA : without locality, Thunberg, Sieber, 109! 115! Sonnerat ! 
Poni oe Clanwilliam Div.; between Lange Vallei and Heeren Loge- 
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