Kyllinga. ] CYPERACE# (Clarke). 158 
3; Rehmann, 4475! Bosch Veld, Rehmanwn, 5350! Hooge Veld, Rehmann, 
Hoel se eting 5000 ft., Kuntze, 261! 
Eastern Region: Transkei, 1000~2000 ft., Drége! Natal; Inanda, Wood, 
1076! near ethan, Wood, oh . and without sien socality Gerrard, 706! 
707! Buchanan, 99! Wood, 4 Delagoa Bay, Junod 
Common throughout ak ie ‘and the Pretec isles. 
7 4. K. elatior (Kunth, Enum. ii. 135); glabrous; ene obliquely 
descending, thick but har ardly woody ; scales herbaceo s; stems 1-2 ft. 
long, thick, triquetrous, somewhat remote on ny rhizome ; leaves 
1 r 
+ 
2- (rarely 3- ) flowered, ‘rarely perfecting more than lowest nut l 
. fertile glume wingless, minutely excurrent into a green mucro, 
smooth or very nearly so; style 2-fid; nut ellipsoid, brown, 
less than 2 + the fougth of the "lume. Krauss in Flora, 1845, 757; 
Boeck, in Linn, xxxv. 422 
eyli indric, ce in, é ong ce irty- ee te: spikelet 2 in. long, es 
T Region: King Williamstown Div.; Perie Forest, Kuntze, 270! 
Komgha Div, ; near the mouth of the Kei River, 300 ft., Flanagan, 1789! 
Katanart Enaion ; range Free State, Buchanan , 83! ! 
Eastern Recion Pondoland ; between Umtat ta River a d St. Fonts ee 
1000-2000 ft. \Drige, 4384! Nat tal ; banks of the Umlaas he Krauss, 32! and 
— ane locality, Buchanan, 98a! 324! Zululand; near tn 
ad d, 3993 
in South- east Tropical Africa. 
5. K. m melanosperma (Nees in Wight, Contrib. pall ei 8 18 in. 
long, slender, hardly triquetrous; bracts 4-3, 3 oad; head 
Solitary, ov oid; keel of fertile glume often Buuare “mit finally 
black [otherwise as K. elatior, Kunth]. Boeck. in Linnwa, XXxv. 
9; C. B. Clarke in Hi k. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 588. 
B Coast Region : Alban ; Assegai erie near Sidbury, Burchell, 4173! 
rookhuizens Poort, near eater 2000 ft., MacOwan, 673! 
ENTRAL REGION : rau cae ge Div. ; ; eee River, Bolus! 
i : ’ yx! 
pekst#RN Ructox: Tembuland; Bazeia, 2000 ft, Baur, 46! Griqualand 
Wad een. Clydesdale, 2500 ft., Tyson, 2864! 2865! Natal; Durban Fiat, 
vita ip castle, nor 188 ! eo ae ee ranean 
6-8 ; iia oe in Wight, Contrib. 2 rae ee 
hott thise es the base, e 
mi me cerry — phy 1 in. broad ; bracts 3, 
zo leaves 2 as long as the stem, 
hy : 2 F 
middle Sede: 12 i long, Pore to the “leaves ; spikes ald 
nude 3} by 2 in. cylindric, dense, straw-coloured ; spikelets 
OO ly acute, 
fe ting: beffpctiity 1 nut; fertile glume ovate, : 
the Teles, smooth ; style 2- fid ; nut broad, ellipsoid, % as ne 4 
in Li ume, yellow-brown when ripe (finally nearly black). ag 
588. inneed, xxxy. 415; OF B. Clarke in Hook _f. Fl. Brit. Ini. vi. 
