Cladiam.] clvi. cyperace^ (clarke). 485 



long, obovoid, the cavity continued up the style-ba:;e. — C. B. Clarke in 



Durand cfe Schinz, Conspecfc. Fl. Afr. v. HGb; Urban, Symb. Antill.ii. 134:. 



O. yernuinicum, Schrad. Fl. Germ. i. 75, t. 5, fig. 7. . 0. Mariscas, R. 



Br. Prod. 2i}6 ; Kunth, Enum. ii. 303 ; Boeck. in Linna^a, xxxviii. 232; 



(Joss, cfe Durieu, Expl. Scient. Alger. Glum. 240 ; Balfour in Trans. Roy. 



8oc. Edin. xxxi. 308; Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 21)1. SchiMnu.s Mariscus^ 



Linn. Sp. PI. ed. ii. 62 ; Sowerby, Engl. Bot. t. 1)50. 

 Upper Guinea. Cape Verd Isles, Voffel, 26 ! £olle. 

 Kower Guinea. Angola: Mdhinge, Mechoiv, 3211 Bitchuei', 1321 

 Scattered through nearly all warm and warm-temperate regions. 



20. TETRARIA, Beauv. in Mem. Inst. Franc. 1812 (181(5) ii. 



5o-57. 



Spikelets 2-flovvered, the lower flower male or with an imperfect 

 pistil not maturing a nut, the upper perfect fertile. Glumes sub- 

 distichous, 5-12; the lowest 3-6 empty, the uppermost reduced. 

 Hypogynous bristles various, or 0. Style linear, branches 3 (or 4) or 

 () (or 8), long ; base dilated, continuous. Nut small, obDvoid, 3- (or 4-) 

 gonous, crowned or almost beaked by the style. — Plants of varied habit. 

 Inflorescence usually a narrow panicle, sometimes reduced nearly to a 

 head, never umbellate. — Mi/nanthm, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 

 1063, not of Beauv. 



Species 32, endemic in South Africa, one species also in Usambara. 



1 . T. circinalis, C. B. Clarice in Durand <i- ^Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 

 Afr. v. 659. Glabrous. Rhizome slender, horizontal. Stems tufted 

 3-10 in. long, with nodes (bearing leaves or bracts) throughout their 

 length. Leaves often as long as the stem, ^^-\ in. broad ; basal- 

 .sheaths brown or reddish, often fimbriate. Panicle 2-() by J-l^ in-, 

 with 15-60 spikelets, often rather dense. Spikelets J by J in., cylindric, 

 brown. Lower empty glumes 6, hardly acute. Hypogynous bristles 

 3-4, shorter than the nut, scabrous. Stamens 3 ; anthers linear-oblong, 

 crested. Style 3-branched. Nut (not seen ripe) small, obovoid, 

 trigonous; style-base depressed-hemispheric, confluent with the top of 

 the ovary, minutely scabrous. — C. B. Clarke in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 283. 

 T. usarahareiisis, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. v. 128. Schmnus 

 circhtalis, Schrad. in Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. ii. Mant. 43. 

 Chceiospora circinalis, Schrad. Anal. Fl. Cap. 31, t. 3, fig.. 2 ; Kunth, 

 Enum. ii. 324. 



X^ozamb. X>ist. German East Africa : Usambara, Hoist, 131 ! 



Also in South Africa. 



21. REMIREA, Aubl. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 1058. 



Spikelets 1-flowered, densely spicate on digitate spikes. Glumes 

 4 to the spikelet, imbricated on all sides, the perfect flower pseudo- 



