- Foinia] cyperace® (Clarke), 259 
54. F. ramosissima (Kunth, Enum. ii. 262) ; ; rather stouter than 
I F. trichodes in all parts; lower stem leaves =; in., or even i 
road; peduncles with 1-3 spikelets, or even 5-6 in a minute 
panicle ; otherwise as FP. trichodes. Acrolepis ramostssima, Boeck. in 
Linnea, xxxvii, 89. 
ae cg ll Cape paid oe fn To ae ae rat —— 
w Kloof, Gone Hoek Burchell, Kny Div. ; 
aa Jit ear the west end of deo Valle rors 07 ' “Cnioial Div. ; 
mountains ree the Klip River, — Ke ~— River, t., Drége! 
Uitenhage Div., Harvey, 123! Port Biz Div. ; on it “il by the sea- 
shore at Port Elizabeth, Purchell, 42 96! Diten) Div., Williams 
aang oS mages Mie — a Div “ar Camdeboo Mou ntain, 4000-5000 ft., Drege. 
t of B ntjes oe Burchell, 3083! Bruintjes 
chil and Bosch | iene 4500 ft., Me meter 1901 
> Oo ¥. haere (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, 
Seted Fl. Afr, v. 635); glabrous; stolons short, clothed by 
| & on brown baisenlats striate scales } in. long, hardening into a short 
the leaves, lowest up to 2 in. long, dilated (or very little dilated) at 
the base ; spikelets 2 by 1—1in., 1-7 clustered subdigitately, com- 
in ren a Gel. Anz. iii. 2066; Anal. Fl. ee 41; Nees in "Linnea, 
Vu. 531; x. 130; Kunth, Rnwn. ii. 330 partly ; ens in Linnaa, 
XXXvii, 87 par tly. Hi. fascicularis, Steud, Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 2. 
Finbristylis verata, Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum, ii. 31 g: cf. Boeck. in 
lora, 1860, 178. Isolepis podocarpa, Boeck. in Flora, 1860, 179. 
tai AFRICA: without locality, Bergius, 179! Harvey ! ! Ecklon and Zeyher, 
~ Coast ivray, 414! (eset 
ay 714! Paarl Bn” Gat eee Loe mae 2, 7407! Worcest 
an ’ Tulbagh Div.; Mosterts Berg near Mitchells Pass, 2000 ft, 
Bole us, 5810 
This species, with the two a <2. allied — forms a = pH 
group; but the flowers are SO exac 4 those of Eu-Ficinia that it is not con- 
Venient to treat the croup as a gens on habit only, mone Bentham bes iene 
© Acrolepis group into Ficinia 
nar Aap longifolia (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. 
Pai 
“i - 640) ; stems branched, leafy 1-6 in. above their bases, 
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