6 XYRIDEZ (Brown). [| Xyris. 
. capensis (Thunb. Prod. 12); leaves 1-7 in. long, 3-1} ie 
broad, laterally flattened, linear, glabrous; peduncle 6-18 in. high, 4 4 
ne thick, terete, sometimes istinctly striate, sometimes the striations 
pastels visible, often with one or two slightly raised lines or angles, 
glabrous, with concolorous or pale brown sheaths 3-22 in. long, 
peduneular sheath 1-5 in. long, leafless or produced into a leafy point 
2-6 in. long; spike at first ovoid, in fruit subglobose, 2-82 lin. long ; 
bracts 2-98 ‘lin. long, 14-22 lin. broad, orbicular, elliptic, or oblong, 
obtuse, or the inner subacute and often more or less earinate at the 
apex, entire, 3-nerved, glabrous, not ciliate, brown ; lateral sepals 
2-22 lin. long, + line broad, faleate- lanceolate, acute, not mucronate, 
pallid, transparent, with a pale brown, narrow wing-like keel, which is 
broadly cuneate-obovate, denticulate ; arms of the staminodia divided 
into tufts of fine hairs ; anthers "oblong, about as long as the 
filaments ; capsule 1% lin. long, trigonous, oblong, pe Thunb. 
Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 81; Vahl, En um. ii. 206; W d. Sp. Fi, 
i. 255; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. i. 52 : ; Kunth, pte iv. 24; 
Nilss. in Ofvers. Vet. Akad. Forhandl. Stockh. 1891, 154; and in 
Svensk. Vet. Akad. Handi. xxiv. no, 14, 40. 
Sournm Arrica: without locality, Zeyher, 1795! 
oast Reeion: Cape Div.; Wynberg, Harvey! Tulbagh Lape banks of 
streams near Ceres, Bolus, 5498! pp, a and Bolus, Her Norm. Aust. 
Afr., 1100! Queenstown ee ony ground on the deanatt ‘of N’ Qebanya 
Cenrrat Reaion: Somerset Div. ; summit of Bosch Berg, 4800 ft., MacOwan, 
749! 
pase = pore tien — Berg, Burke, 170! 
Tem and; Bazeia Mountain, 4000 ft., Baur, 598! 
Ps Kar Kloof, go te a peat peed Wood, 103! 
7. X. anceps (Lam. Tabl. Encycl. i. 132) ; leaves 2-14 in. se 
14-4} lin. broad, laterally flattened, linear, obtuse or acute, glabrous 
with concolorous sheaths 3-43 in. long ; : peduneular sheath 13-63 in. 
long, leafless, obtuse, or with a leafy obtuse point 1-1 in. long; 
peduncle 1-21 ft. long, 3-14 line broad, compressed and acutely 
two-edged, especially towards» oe apex, glabrous ; ; spike oe bose or 
ovoid, 3-5 lin. in diam. ; brac s 2-3 lin long, 13-2 li 
elliptic, very Sika or the iner ones subacut te, entire, oe ciliate, 
narrowly ovate 
pale yellowish-brown, or pale straw-eoloured, with a 
or mea acute, green area ¥ Bhi slightly keeled apex; nerves 
. ut 7-9, very slender and obsc ateral 1-21 lin. 1 ng, 
4 line broad, cbtalcate:Ianicnolate, “abn wih o a rather broad, wing- 
oblong, § 2 line long ; capsule 14 lin. long, trigonous, oblong, obtuse, 
ts apicu ulate, Nilss. in Svensk. Vet. Akad. Handi. xxiv. no. 14, 37. 
X. platycaulis, Poir. Eneycl. viii. 820; Roem, et Schultes, Syst. 
