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Crosslandia (W.V.]?.) n. gen. 

 Flowers monoecious. Male spikelets capitate, on filiform 

 stems. Glumes imbricate, all flowering. Female spike- 

 lets solitary or in twos or threes at the base of the leaves. 

 Gliunes few, slightly imbricate. No hypogynous bristles. 

 Nut and style as in Fimhristylis. Stems leafy at the base. 

 Differs from Fimhristylis in the spikelets being monoecious 

 and in the position and structure of the female spikelets. 

 This is named out of compliment of Mr. Charles Crossland, 

 who was in charge of the Trigonometrical Survey Expedi- 

 tion to Kimberley in 1905, of which the author was a 

 member. 



111. C. setifolia (W.V.F.) n. sp. 



A tufted annual with a short stock ; stems several, filiform, 

 almost terete, sulcate, scabrous upwards, bearing a de- 

 pressed-globular head of male-spikelets, the head sub- 

 tended by 8 or more narrow-lanceolate rigid bracts, the 

 outer generally strongly tri-nerved, and 1-2 usually ex- 

 ceeding the spikelets ; leaves mmierous, radical, sur- 

 rounding but not adherent to the stems, setaceous, rather 

 rigid, almost half the length of the stems, scabrous, with 

 short, broad, striate, open, hyaline, margined sheaths, 

 those on the stems reduced to 1-2 open mucronate sheaths, 

 the radical female spikelets very numerous and imparting 

 to the stock a bulbous appearance ; male spikelets 10-12, 

 rather closely packed, glumes 8-10, all flowering, boat- 

 shaped, with a prominent green keel which terminates in 

 a short mucro, sides thin, pale-brown, minutely scabrous ; 

 stamens 3, or in the upper flowers, 2 only ; ovary and style 

 rudimentary ; female spikelets 3 or fewer together, closely 

 sessile outside or slightly intermixed with and always at 

 the base of the leaves ; spikelets 2-5 flowered, much nar- 

 rower upwards ; glumes, excepting the lowest short one, 

 all containing flowers, narrow, membranous with prominent 

 greenish middle, ending in long hair-Uke points, finely 

 hirsute, style fihform, glabrous, or slightly silky, the 

 branches 3, occasionally 4, as long as the entire portion ; 

 base of the style pyramidal-triangular, articulate on the 

 ovary, nut narrow-obovate, not compressed, with 3-4 

 conspicuous longitudinal ribs hispid and densely minutely 

 tuberculate. 



Goody Goody, 9 miles from Derby (W.V.F.). 



Stems 3-8in. high. Leaves lj-4ins. long. Male-spikelets 

 3 hnes long, IJin. broad. Female spikelets J— Jin. long, 

 and comparatively narrow. Style Jin. long. Nuts 1 Hne 

 long, brown. 



