260 ovperacea (Clarke). ( Ficinia. 
carrying 1-2 spikelets ; spikelets pig larger ; glumes more brightly 
white-edged ; otherwise nearly as Ff. angus ustifo lia. Hemichlena 
longifolia, Nees in Pci x 383 : x. 129; Kunth, Enum. ii. 330; 
Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 88. H. angustifolia, Kunth, Enum. ii. 
330 partly ; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 87 part Schaenus cari- 
cowles, Steud. in Flora, 1829, 137. Eleogiton ida. Dietr. Sp. 
i. 71, 99. 
oh helen without agg cing Pah , 
ast KrGion : Cape Div ag a Burchell, 638! Ecklon, 864! 
Milne, 216! MacGillivray, 412! gn hh 4736. 
re 57. F. fe ee (C. B. Clarke in yours and Schinz, Conspect. 
Fl. Afr. v. 637); stem slender, long (up to 30 in. in herbarium 
ae aA branched and leafy nearly Neate dhe its jae leaves 
very narrow, upper capillary; spikelets r: sathat slenderer ; otherwise 
as ee lon sta ie Hemichlena capillifolia, Schrad. in Goett. Gel. Anz. 
i. 2066; Anal. Fl. Cap. 40, t. 3, fig. 1; Nees in Linnea, viii. 90; 
x. 130 iar in ey vii. 530); Kunth, Enum. ii, 330; Boeck. in 
Linnea, xxxvii 
South AFrRIcA: without ‘ages Mund and marie 
Coast Reaion: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Hesse = ag ee George 
iv.; on the lower part of the Pos 4 ties rg, near Race, Burchell, 6021! Oute- 
niqua Mountains, Rehmann, 69! 
Imperfectly known species. 
58. F. nuda (Boeck. in apron XXXVlil. agit ; stolons horizontal, 
as thick as a pigeon’s quill; stems 8-7 in. long, filiform tufted ; 
leaves G- 2 upper) 2-1 in. long, said. rigid, se “brown ‘spikelets 
4-1, clustered, ~5 in. long, 4- flo wered ; “bracts 0 ; glumes clustered. 
liner-laneeolate style 3-fi i Pesiegeyum eylindri ric, margin shortly 
3-lobed; nut + the length of t glume, narrowly obovoid, obtusely 
hia hg rusty straw-colour, ES raised points 
SouTH AFRICA: without locality, Petersen (ex Boeckeler). 
59. F. tenuis (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fi. 
Afr. v. 645); stems filiform, glabrous; leaves filiform, overtopping 
the stems; heads terminal, solitary, oblong ; bracts keeled-eonvex, 
aristate, lower distichous, all with 4-flowered spikes ; ’ 
distichous, many-nerved, keeled, mucronate, 3 lowest empty 3 oVaTy 
trigonous, on an entire disc; style-branches 3, very long. Melan- 
eranis tenuis, Ecklon ex Kunth, Enum. ii. 965 ; but Kunth adds 
‘* scarcely a Melancranis.” 
South Arrica: without locality, collector not indicated. 
XII. FUIRENA, Rottb. 
Spikelet of many imbricate glumes, lowest 2 empty, many succeed- 
ing glumes 2-sexual, perfecting nuts, aristate, hairy, uppermost male 
or sterile. Hypogynous bristles 3, outer (sepals) small linear oF 0, 
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