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Tetraria.} CYPERACEX (Ciarke). 281 
Coast Reaion: Cape Div.; near Cape Town, Harvey, 198! Stellenbosch 
Div. Ps eae Kop, Wallich ! 
hough the Fo eel is young, this plant must be a Tetraria, but it does not 
appear Sane allied to any other species. The inflorescence and bracts recall 
Ficinia monticola and “the neighbouring Ficinias 
10. T. ae orm (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. 
Fl. Afr. v. 661); glabrous except the glumes; rhizome + in 
1-3 leaf-bearing nodes between the lowest bract and the basal 
leaves; basal leaf-sheaths pale-brown, fimbriate ; basal leaves 4-8 in. 
long, setaceous ; stem leaves similar, but shorter, from tight cylindric 
black sheaths ; panicle 3-5 in. long, lax, of 10-16 spikelets ; lowest 
bract: like the stem leaves ; peduncle exserted 1-3 in. ; spikelets 
subsolitary, + by + in., much compressed ; lower flower male with 
imperfect pistil ; pe 2-sexual, perfecting a nut; glumes 
manifestly distichous, broadly ovate, ‘obtuse, with minute white wool 
on the edge ; hypogynous bristles 4, hardly 4 the length of the nut, 
Do 
linear, minutely scabrid; stamens 3; anthers (of the genus) with 
sterile basal ears; nut t ripe) small, obovoid; style-base 
short, branches 3 linear, very papillose. Chaetospora Jimbriolata, 
Nees in Linnea, x, 191; Kunth, Enum, ii. 327; Boeck. in 
Linnea, xxxviii. 300, 
Sourn Arrica: paaewion locality, R. Brown! Ecklo 
Tt ReGion: Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek, 2500 Aa Schlechter, 7392! and 
without precise tneatieg, ps her, 81! hers Div.; mountains along the 
lower part of the Zonder Hinde River, Zeyher, 4429 ! 
a Tt: Ales (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 
Afr.-y. 661) ; glabrous; rhizome 1 in. in diam., horizontal; stems 
12-18 in. long, tufted, eee * terete, with several leaf-bearing 
nodes between the lowest bract and the basal leaves; basal leaf- 
‘sheaths brown, much fimbriate ; ; basal leaves 2-5 in. long , setaceous ; 
stem leaves Similar, but shorter, from tight cylindric black sheaths ; 
panicle 4~8 in, long, slender, lax, with capillary branches ; bracts like 
_ stem-leaves, much shorter than the panicle; s spikelets few, 
i ary, ~ in. long, lanceolate; glumes pale, ovate- lanceolate, 
Microscopically scabrous ; style 3-fid. Schaenus fasciatus, Lotth. 
Deser, et Ic. 67, t. 16, fig. 5. Elynanthus microstachyus, Boeck. in 
Linnea, XXXviil. 261 mainly. 
te a —— locality, R. Brown ! Drég 
2500 tt, Ree pe Div. ; ee Bay, Robertson \ Dbedote Diy. ; Houw Hoek, 
Schleater, 390 | 73 
All the xtigerd “ea are young; the above description is from the ida dar 
2 ay >. Vahl, w ees identically with Drége’s ply sais chee s bb 
eth, Kew, ee ches founded his £. microstachyus on E. cuspidatus wre bb 
nately, » but his description applies to the nraenae plant only. “Unfort ortu- 
¥ Es 
ey Drége, in his Documente, has omitted EB. cuspidatus bb altogether, so that 
its precise locality. canno the. sucebaaiaant: ned. 
