258 cyperace® (Clarke). [Ficinia. 
t, below 500 ft., Drége ! Cape Div.; near Cape Town, Bolus, 4863! Cap 
Fate’ Zeyher, 1781! Knysna Div. ; er the west end of Groene Vallei, Burchell, 
5642 ! Uitenhage Div., Harvey, 126! 1 
Gl, 3. vie pe te ee chaps vbis ss Docume 
185); glabrous; rhizome short, woody; stems 12-20 i long, 
tufted, slender; leaves £8 i in. long, =; in. ae doutotie near 
the base, solid upwards ; sicallla brown fimbriate ; ages narrow- 
oblong (nearly reduced to a compound spike), 21 by 2 in., lowest 
bract often 3 in. distant; bracts often 4—6 in. long, aaa to the 
stamens 3; anthers linear, minutely white- crested ; nut 2 the length 
of the glume, obovoid, trigouous, smooth ; style shorter than the 
nut, branches 3 linear, long; gynophore small Peete margin 
subentire. F. comparbergensis, "Steud. Syn. Pl. 
CentRAL ReGion: Graaff Reinet Div-; Compass isn 6000-7000 ft., Drege, 
ye ! ae Berg Range, 4500-8000 ft., Bolus, 704! Colesberg Div., 
aw 
e, 52. F. trichodes (Benth. in Gen. Pl. iii. 1053); glabrous; stems 
6- 
18 in. long, slender, branching from the base to the top; ae sa 
leaves 2 in. long, capi i lower stem leaves sometimes ;’5 12- 
broad ; peduncles 1-2 in. long, axillary, with 1. spikelet ; low 
braet 2-1 in. long, iuiak te the anak dilated at the base ; spikelet 
trigonous, smooth ; style rather shorter than the nut, branches 3 
linear, long; gynophore narrowly obconic, margin subentire. 
Acrolepis trichodes, Schrad. Anal. Fl. Cup. 42, t. 2, fig. 5; Nees 
in Linne@a, vill. 90; x. 129; Kunth, Enum. ii. 331; Boeck. + 
Linnea, xxxvii, 90. H, ophialium capillifolium, Nees in Linnea, 
viii, 90. Hemichlena capillifolia, Nees in Linnea, vii. 530 
excluding syn. H. trichodes, Nees in , Lanne, vill. 90. 
SourH AFRica: without locality, Sieber, 95! Ecklon and b Zeyher 116! Zeyher; 
2426, 2427. Batre apap ee 
Seg 5 Rueion: Cape Div.; near ap own, Burchell, 411! Table Moun- 
, Hesse ee Schrader). eg arsed Div.; Houw Hoek Mountains, 2500 ft., 
Schlechter , 7551 
ner the tas presi — pa species differ greatly from Fic inia in 
habit but the = peer altogether as of Eu-Ficinia. See Benth. in Benth. et 
k. f. Gen. Pl. ii 1053. 
Sour Arrica : without — Zeyher, 2423! Ecklon and Zeyher, 1 116 5B! 
No specimen in Kew Herbari —$<—< 
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