ah a ek ee 
a, 
Gee ee 
Fuirena.] CYPERACER (Clarke). 263 
| Ie 5. F. gracilis (Kunth, Enum. ii. 181); petals asi about 2 the 
le 
§ 
ugth of the nut, clawed, nearly square, hairy, nerveless ; nut with 
a conie scabrous tip ; : otherwise as the preceding ee Boeck, % 
tnmea, Xxxvii. 100. F. microlepis, Kunth, Enum. ii. 182 pair 
£, Ecklonii, Nees in Linnea, x. 143 partly. 
Sourn Arrica: without psn eg ie 1757! 
— Sig EGION: Queenstown 3 Shiloh, 3500 ft., ", 892 
Eastern Reaion: ten ‘St. Marks Division. on the — of the 
Isi 80 gi 2000 ft., Baur, 7241 Transkei ; between Gekau and the Bashee 
River, 1000-2000 ft., Drege, 4341! 4338! 
Kunth —— Dré pee 4338, 4339, to his F. microlepis, while he named Drége 
4341, F. gracil all ev — 4341 is identical hoa Roe (they were collected 
at the same hint , Pass she engeogr. Documente 146) and is _ ra d Le the 
name gracilis. I have rae a an Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 647) 
applied the name microlepis to Drége 4339 to avoid introducing a oa ‘ame, 
: a be doubted whether there is more than one species here altogether ; indeed 
eckeler has taken Drege 4338 and 4339 as only F. pubesce yer Ems view quite 
ee but which will cut the genus Fuirena down to 4 or 5 spec 
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unth, Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 125; Se rad. Anal, Fl, Cap. 31; Nees 
in Linnea, vii a10; x. 143: "Kun ath, Enum. ii. 180; Boeck. in 
Linnea, xxxvii, 102 excluding the Tadign examples. 
' bi 8, Buchanani (C. B. Clarke) ; stout; panicle 4 in. long, with numerous 
EAC 
Soutn Arrica: without. pei —— and Zeyher, 36»! 36c! 
Coasr Region: Cape Div.; be r Gape Towa arvey, 177! Cape Flats, 
! 
KasteRN Regro : Natal; i bedi and Umzimkulu Rivers, we 
yp ada, Wond, 1620! and w t precise locality, Bolton, Rehman 
8443! 8600! Dela igoa Bay, Junod, bee ‘Var. B: Natal, Buchanan, 120! 
£. ceru inten mes differ cutive in size and form; in some examples 
they nea ae aa e disappear. Var in its nut and long panicle resembles 
i puchyrrhiza, but then it has fairly hevtoodl petals. 
7. F. enodis (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. 
Fl. x ¥. Sou glabrous, Bip ish os backs of the flower-glumes ; 
st 
aie as of Fuirena ; sepals 8 3, ine setacoous, Peabein ig 
