154 CYPERACEH (Clarke). [ Kyllinga. 
KALAHARI ReGion: Transvaal, Rehmann, 563 
Eastern Reeion: Pondoland, Bachmann, 108 ! Natal; Inanda, Wood, 
1421! and without ne locality, Buchanan, viet 23 ! 
Scattered throughou nei my Africa, Pe Mascarene Islands, India, and the 
warmer part of Australi K. 00 a, Vahl, swtiel 4 is abundant in Tropical 
and Sub-‘Tropical hase, 4 is ae caches separable. 
hort, very slender; stem 6- long, slender, ee hardly 
thickened at the base ; leaves tes as long as the stem, 2 in. broad; 
bracts 3-4, spreading, lowest often 4 in. long, similar to de, leaves ; 
spikes 8-1, middle one cylindric, } by +in. (but — examples occur 
with one ovoid spike 1 in. long), dense; spikelets 1-1 in., 5—7-glume 
perfecting 3- nuts ; glumes oat-s aped, ches tnut- brown ; keal 
VA 7. K. pulchella (Kunth, ene ii, 137); glabrous; stolons 
s 15 
102; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 405. XK. atrosanguinea, Steud. in 
Flora, 1842, 
Souta Arrica: without locality, Zeyher, 1755! 
‘stefan Re@ion: Komgha Div.; among rocks near Komgha, 2000 ft., Flanaga”, 
1261! 
CENTRAL ReGion: Albert Div.; 4500 ft., Drége, 7384! Somerset Div. ; 
Bosch Berg, 2500 ft., MacOwan, 1 ao 
KatanaRi REGI ION n: Orange Free tate; Riet River, Burke,433! Transvaal 
Hooge Veld, at Trigards Fontein, Donel 6670! Houtbosh, Rehmann, 5620! 
Also in Abyssinia, 
8. K. tetragona (Nees in Linnea, vii. 512); small, glabrous oF 
the top of the stem minutely sca cabrous- pubescent ; rhizome woody, 
erect, short, often divided at the top, covered with scales torn into 
brown fibres; stem solitary, 3-7 in. long, slender, thickened at the 
base by leaf-sheaths ; leaves 1 as lone as the stem, —. in. broad 
bracts 3,8 spreading, lowest 1—2 in, long, similar to the leaves ; spike 
re i hf 
i 
Enum. ii. 137, partly. K. inaurata, Boat in n Linnea, xxxv. 406. 
SoutH AFRICA: ee locality, Ze 
yher 
noah REGION: a eenstown Div. ; tnbetis Table Mou d the Zwart 
Kei River, Drége, 3931 3 ountain an 
9 K.Lehmanni (Nees in Linnea, x. 139) ; hee except the 
aT scabrous Bint top of the stem ; rhizome woody, short, 
subereet ; scales torn into fibres ; stem 5-11 in, Jon Sieber is: stout, 
the pees 4+ in. broad ; uate 3, Sp delidinig: lowest 
similar to the leaves ; spike 1, slog » 4-¢ in. in diam., 
white ; spikelets 1—1 in. long, usually perfecting two nuts; glumes 
elliptic-lanceolate, ni ; keel wing me green, smooth or sparingly 
bristly, excurrent as a mucro; style 2-fid; nut only seen young: 
ck, in Linnea, xxxv. 408. ‘EK. csleita: Kunth, Enum, ii. 136. 
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