Kyllinga. | CYPERACEH (Clarke). 155 
sees AFRICA: without agp Eck lon 2 and Zeyher, 28! 
Coast Region: Albany D Sy me *, 43841 Komgha Div.; near the mouth 
apie ‘aaa ‘Tembula an es Baur, 274! Port Natal, 500 ft., 
stems 6-15 in. long tufted, handle chidkaned at the fone peed 
often 3 as long as the stem, 1-1 in, broad; bracts 8, spreading, 
rent 4 in. long, similar to the leaves spike lg globose or subovoid, 
+ in. long, stony coloured; spikelets + in. Jong, elliptic- -oblong, often 
perfecting 2 nuts ; glumes 1-coloured, teal ante, with compressed 
glandular dots ; keel wingless, not at all green, smooth; style 2-fid ; 
nut } as long ma the clume, rele pai 
a or REGION tal; Umzula, 
anys Shire itighlinds, British tose Afric 
The kee 1 of the ie re e glume is wingless; yet this species may prove only an 
extreme state of K. 
II. PYCREUS, Beauv. 
Spikelet of many distichous glumes; 2 lowest empty, 5 at least 
(usually many) succeeding glumes 2-sexual and perfecting nuts, 
uppermost male or sterile; rhachilla persistent, not disarticulating 
below the lowest fertile glume, not winged. Stamens 1-3, wre 
anthers Narrow-oblong, not creste Style s ape More: 
linear, in a plane passing through thachilla, Wut oblong or siipeoid 
compressed laterally, smooth. 
Glebrous; leaves to the base of the roto 
ndtit cn Kili gg as must half its length by jearaneutie} ae 
escence (as in Cyperus) a corymbose-panicle, shortened into a false umbel or 
Disrrrs. Species 64; in all warm and temperate regio 
ZONATR, Superficial cells sh the nut Vabttadtch ly oblong; nut often 
appearing zonate by re of the narrow ends of the cells running 
into an undulating or sears horizontal lin 
Spikelets 12 lin. broad, i or pale purl (1) poe tn 
Spikelets 2 Tin, broad, ches (2) ¥ thus. 
Spikelets 3 lin. broad, pera ose -., (3) macran 
Punoticunar#. Superficial cells of the nut square ; nut often appeari 
aa dotted by reason of the light reflected from the convex 
urtace of each cell. 
St eth, by leaf- a 
~ clothed, often for } its length, by (4) Mundtii. 
eaten narrow, red- tinged ‘or pale, never 
chestnut-brown ; 
Spi ikelets linear, glumes closely im- 
ricate 
— more distant, “rather "larger 
righte Sov ce ve 
Spikelets chest bro 
hi ns oblique. descending “iat um- 
be Ned 3 spikelets 2 lin. broad . rs 
As preceding, but ae acute .. 
(5) polystachyus, 
(6) ferrugineus. 
(7) um 
(8) cekforvensls 
