30 
yi gai us riga sp. n. ; culmo 7 dm. longo, robustiore tereti ; 
bracted ima 15 cm. longa, quasi culmum continente ; 
laterali composita, "albidà, densá, 3-5 em. in diam.; stylo 3-fido 5 
nuce pallida, late obovoideda, truncata, transversim alte muricata. 
S. paludicola, C. B. Clarke, in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii, p. 231, partim, 
errore, [4741 
/SOUTH AFRICA. Orange River Colony, Buchanan, n. 163. 
Rhodesia ; Bulawayo, Eyles, n. 1202 (hb. Berol.). 
8. gr eite sp.n.; culmo 1-3 dm. longo, in media parte 
nodoso ; foliis ste lanceolatis; corymbo subunico terminali, 
d 
luride nigro-scariosis; setis 6, capillaribus, in parte superiore 
tenuiter antice scabris, nucem superantibus; stylo 
Culmus erectus, e rhizomate ligneo verticaliter descendente 
e a 7 em. 8 
ortus. Folia ulin plura, longa mm., apice in 
acumen obtusum (more Eriophori) conspicue acuminata. Corymb 
15 s, 2- longis, nutantibus subumbelliformis ; 
radioli minute pilosi ; bracteae 2-3 in basi corymbi suboppositae ; 
2-3 cm. longae, late lanceolatae, luride nigro-scariosae, Eriophorum 
referentes. Spic culae (juniores) 7-9 mm. longae, ellipsoideo- 
lanceolatae la Stage: spiculas "— magnopere referentes.— 
Species, setis praetervisis, ad genus Hriophorum potius referenda. 
wJAPAN. Nippon, Tschonoski, Hayachine, Faurie, n. 13569. 
[4894] 
uss S. Hahnii, sp. n.; culmo 1 dm. longo, monocephalo, in parte 
inferiore foliato Gent 3, longis, patulis; spiculis parvis, 
congestis ; Pd ovatis, obtusis; setis 0; stylo 3-fido; nuce 
juniore acutius trigoná, apice subacutá 
S. kyllingioidi proxima, differt magnitadinis et nuce fere 
triquetra, apice acutiore. Culmi basi bulboso-incrassati. Folia 
culmu p rantia. Caput densum, 4-6 diam., 
fusce stramineum e usque ad 6 em. longae. Glu 
ncavae, subenerviae, concolor stramineae, leviter rubro- 
c 
maculatae. Stamina 2; antherae oblongae, apice nudae. Stylus 
tenuis; rami 3, longiusculi, tenues. 
VMEXICO. Prope Merida, Hahn (hb. Berol.). [4917] 
3197 T S. occidentalis, C. B. Clarke ; "ep T" occidentalis, A. Gray !, 
n Proc. Amer. Acad. vii. (1867), p Ciayy [4 913] 
aut Ficinia mucronata, sp. n.; culmis setaceis, 5-15 em 
1-spieuligeris, vaginae NR folio longo; bracteis 2 inferiore 
8-25 mm. longá; spicula ovoidea, juven nili ix 5 mm. in diam.; 
glumis ovatis apice obtusis scariosis dentatis, cariná in mucronem 
linearem rigidiorem excurrente. 
Glabra. Culmi tenuiter Toii: hie cum ni parte culmi 
aeguilonga ; vaginae paullo rubescentes 
“SOUTH AFRICA. Ezelbank, alt. 1250 m., gëeent n. 8816. 
[5065] 
qu? 3 F. minutiflora, s sp. n.; culmis setaceis; vaginis cese $ pe 
unico, specie laterali, albido, 1-5-stachyo, 2-3 mm. in 
spiculis 2 mm. longis, pancifloris ; paaa ovatis, obtusis, albidis, 
nervo percrasso obscurius subexcurren 
