Pycreus. | CYPERACE® (Clarke). 159 
compressed, 18-nutted, brown, or chestnut-brown; glumes ovate 
boat-shaped, obtuse ; style- -branches 2; nut small, obovo id, 1-1 the 
length of the glume, dark-brown, superficial eels round- -hexagonal. 
Cyperus laneeus, Thunb. Prod. 18 ; Fil. Cap. ed. Schult. 101 ; Nees 
in Linnea, vii. 517; x. 185; Steud in Flora, 1829, 153. C. atratus, 
Krauss in Flora ist, 753. C. umbraticola, Ku nth, Enum, ii. 13 ; 
Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 443. C. permutatus, Boeck. in Linnea, 
1. 
uta AFRIcA: without locality, Krebs! Bergius, 172! Harvey, 81! 351! 
375! 382! Ecklon and Zeyher, 1! 76! 
Coasy REGION: Clanwilliam Div., Zeyher! Cape Div.; Table Mountain, 
Ecklon, 885 ! Milne, 224! Ma eGillivray y, 417! Cape Flats, Thanderay Bureh He 
v0! 676! Krauss! Simons Bay, Wright! Paarl a Berg River, Dré 
1598! Worcester Div.; Brand Vley, Thom, 1063! Caledon Div. ; ; Gyabbie w, sic 
Palmiet River, 700 ft., Bolus, 4231! Riversdale Div.; between ‘Little Vet River 
Kampsche Berg, Burchell, 6862! Knysna Div. ; hills near Melville, 
i n Stadens 
Zeyher, 4357! and without precise locality, Ecklon and Zeyher, 634! 715! 
ef ihe Div. Toise River Sta bey 3500 ft., Kuntze, 277! 
- REGION: Transvaal eg nen. 4772! 4773! Hooge 
Veli, a Donker Hock, Rehmann, 6151! 65 33 
Eas GION: Griquala nd Baty near peep red 5000 ft. Pei: 1614! 
Pondalaner, mtsikaba River, Dréye! Natal; Umlaas River, ’ Kra 205! 
pa Fl: at, We ood, 4099! and eae hate Neue. Buchanan, ral 308 ! 
réye 
Also in ae Africa and Madagascar. 
: oakfortensis (C. B. Clarke); stems 1—2 ft. long, with 
eaves ie inflorescence as in the narrow-leaved forms of P. umbrosus ; 
spikelets rigid, shining black ; nut shining black ; glumes lanceolate, 
acute (otherwise as P. umbrosus, Nees). Cyperus oakportenss, Boeck. 
ex C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 543, 
by one: 
Rearee Reeion : Transvaal; Lomati Valley, 4000 ft., Galpin, 1364. 
R GION; Natal 5 Oakford, Rehmann'! and without precise locality, 
wohanan, 97a! 99! 100 
ae as a form of P. umbsosus, Nees, in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 
2-4 in, lon 
ng, 
pias, ehmeteae ; Spikelets } ei ge ms cake compressed, hard, 
boat-sha “2—nutted, dark chestnut. brown ; sis close-packed, ovate, 
st ae aped, obtuse ; ; keel of fertile glume, paler yellowish, not green 
ee tanches 2 ; nut obovoid, scarcely 2 2 the length of the glum 
Jaheh Site. Cy erus betschuanus, Boeck. _* ngl. 
. C. globosus var. nilagirica, C. B. Clarke in Journ. 
Li mn, Soe, XXi. 49, g 2 ag ’ 
Katanagr Ree 
Moantaing wig EGON :_ Griqualand West; Hay Div., between the Asbestos 
te Water, Burchell, 2081 ! Tran: aal He area " Baten ! 
Bechuanal and, 4000 ft., Mare 1027} goes - 
