758 ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA. 
a. Willdenovia decipiens (N. E. Brown); plant 5 ft. high; 
ea terete, minutely punctate, glabrous, ochreous ; ; leaf-sheaths 
broken, probably 14 in. or more long, closely convolute ; basal part 
5-6 lin. long, coriaceous, persistent, more or less bordered or stained 
all over with brown, upper part thin, submembranous, soon breaking 
away, greyish or light brownish ; inflorescence of both sexes solitary, 
terminal, erect ; spathes 2-8, similar in both sexes, outer varying 
from 13 3.98 in. long, inner shorter, lanceolate, convolute into a 
subulate point, dark brown, shining, minutely punctate; male 
n. 
a -flowered spikes, scattered along one or more flexuous axes ; 
bracts 3-4 lin, long, 3 lin. broad, lanceolate, tapering to an awn- 
like point, membranous, white ; Hawacs very shortly pedicellate ; ; 
aig ts 11-2 lin. long, 2 1 lin. broad, lanceolate, tapering 
wn-like point, membranous, white ; female flower solitary ; 
bracts shout 9 lin. long, 2-21 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, convolute 
at the apex into a subulate pein very light oc chreous-brown ; 
perianth-segments 1 lin. long, 14 lin road, suborbicular-ovate, very 
brown ; disk or stalk of the ovary 11-2 lin tee pees grooved 
lengthwise, whitish ; styles short and stout, about 13 lin. long; 
fruit fo een long, 2 lin. thick, cylindric, obtuse, smooth to the eye 
but very mona! roughened surface when seen under a 
aaa blackish: brow 
Coast epic nates Div.; mountains of Garcias Pass, 1000 ft., 
Galpin, 4828 
roan to W. fimbriata, Kunth, but differing in its smooth fruit and longer 
Spat 
2a. Eleocharis Schlechteri (C. B. Clarke); stems tufted, 1-1; in. 
long, rigid; a very slender short rhizome sometimes present; upper- 
most sheath firm, entire, and shortly oblique at the top; spikelet 
$-s i., brown, bearing 8-16 nuts, lanceolate at the top; 
tet elliptic, obhnee, eet Co mas e ; hypo sen pried: 4 
biconvex, much narrowed at the top, brown finally black, smooth. 
Coast ann Caledon Dir. ; a. River, Schlechter, 9484! 
The setze are as of E. c , RB. Br., to which E. Schlechteri is 
allied, but "differs by its sclntad Pree tao spikelet. : 
4. Eleocharis Lepta (C. B. Clarke); stems 12-15 in. long, thread- 
like, quadrangular ; uppermost sheath firm, truncate, shortly p ro- 
duced on one side; ; spikelet 1 by 2 in, chestnut-brown, many- 
flowered ; glumes ovate; tip obtuse, searious-edged ; hypogynous 
ristles 4, about as long as the nut, white, patently papillose- 
“ai oS as long as the nut, with 3 linear branches; style- 
ase narro i 
Coast saiainis Cape Peninsula; Vaarsche Vley, Wolley Dod, 3541! 
