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lum subaequante, ciilmo foliisqne capillari - triquetris TÜIosis. 

 ^, — In coUibns graminosis „Adovensibus" alt, III., et iu 

 sylvis primaevis jugi „Olifantshoek" ad flnmen „ Boschesman- 

 rivier" alt. I. ( Uitenhage ). Floret ab Augusto in Decembreni. 

 — Species omnium hujus geueris distinctissima. Radix repens, 

 fibris multis fuscis stipata. Culmi filiformes, */♦ — 1 pedeni 

 alti, semiteretcs, hinc striati, sparsim patenti-pilosi. Folia 

 ad basin plurima, partim fasciculata partim cauliua, tenuia, 

 triquetra, canaliculata , acuta, pubescenti-villosa et in evolu- 

 tione fere contexta, culmum subaequantia. Vaginae dorso vil- 

 losae, margiue rufo-membranaceae, glabrae. Capitulum ma- 

 gnitudine fere Cerasi, e 10 et pluribus spiculis exstruetnm. 

 Involucri foliola e basi ovata fusca scariosa longe ciliata seta- 

 ceo - mucronata , unimi quaudoque capitulum snperaiis. Spicu- 

 lae ovales, 3 — 4 lin. longae. Squamae grandiusculae, ova- 

 les, mucronatae, bruuneae, membranaceae, margiue ciliolatae, 

 carina pallida haud complicata. Stamina tria. Stylus basi 

 bulbosus, trifidus, puberulus. Caryopsis obovata, brevis, 

 hinc plaua, dorso convexo-gibba , costis aliquot longitudinali- 

 bus iudistinctis , dorsali evidentiori, plicisque trausversalibus 

 parum couspicuis praedita, pallida, mutica. — Variat cuJmo 

 foliisque minus villosis. 



XIII. ISOLEPIS R. Br. N. ab E. S3':uops. Cyp. in Lin. , 

 IX. l.p. 290. 



Sect. I. jinnuae _, humiles , radice ßbrosa aut repcnte 

 gracili , cuhno ad basin vagina microphyUa, 

 1. Isolepis exilis N, ab E, — culrais fasciculatis 

 setaccis teretiusculis lacvibus, folio vaginali liueari-attenuato 

 piano culmum aeqnautc aut supcrante, spiculis subgemiuis 

 ovato-subrotundis arctc sessilibus, involucri monophylli foliolo 

 (' basi membranacca setaceo spiculis multo longiore, squamis 

 1-ite ovAtis berbaceu - mucrouatis uniaerviis laterequc obsolett: 



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