Pycreus.] CYPERACEH (Clarke). 161 — 
in Wight, Contrib.73; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 465. C. pseudo- 
bromoides, ie in Linnea, xxxv. 464, 
mgha Div.; Kei River Flanagan, 958! Queenstown Div. ; 
Klipplaat River, 3500 ft Drage, '3958! 
{ON : Foe, sae: Rehmann, 4326! 
ASTERN REGION: uland; Bazeia, 2000 ft., Baur, 371! Pondoland ; 
rena Umtata River reg Rt Johns Riv iver, 1000-2000 feet. , Drage, 4397 ! 
Widely distributed in all tropical and warm-temperate lands, 
3. P. ae yeenthns (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. 
Fl. we fr. v. 534); ig somewhat stout; stems 15-24 in. long ; 
raat all near the base of the stem, 2 its length, 3-3 in. broad ; 
mbel 3-42 in. broad, simple ; bracts 3- a lowest 3-8 in., similar to 
the leaves ; spikelets 6- 16 together, loosely spicate, ebracteate, up 
a by 15 in., linear with exactly parallel sides, 12-22-nutted, much 
ea ; glumes ovate, boat-shaped, golden yellow, one- coloured ; 
keel microscopically excurrent and often “scabrous ; style-branches 2 ; 
nut oblong-ellipsoid, 2 the length of the glume, ‘black ; superficial 
cells square. 0. thryeuntivis,, Boeck. in Linnea, Xxxv. 476. 
C. lanceus var, y ? mucronata, Kunth, Enum. ii 8. 
South AFRIca: without locality, oe ne 
Katanart REGION: Tran svaal; Rehm 145! 
EAsteRN eerag: Natal, Grant ! cai Do eh Umtsikaba River, below 
500 ft. » Drége, 4409! 
S 
Ill JUNCELLUS, C. B. Clarke. 
the ero Hite beset scarcely winged. Stamens 1-3, anterior. 
Style slender ; oe 2, linear, in a plane at right angles to the 
median plane o f the spikelet. Nut phases or alleged “triangular, 
the anterior angle flattened, smooth. 
Differs from Cyperus only in having the style 2-fid, not 3-fid. 
Species 13, scattered through nearly all warm and temperate regions. 
1. J. levi igatus (C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 596) ; 
Slabrous ; rhizome. ere eeping; stems 6-24 in. long, somewhat fleshy, 
roundish ; leaves usually short, often hardly any, sometimes exceed- 
ie" = at z2—} in. broad, upper part terete-trigonous ; spikelets 
+ sie BL 
~30, in one apparently 1 lateral head ; ke ad , lower 1-3 in. ong, 
suberect, siecthae to the leaves; spikelets 1 b 2 in ., straw-coloured, 
often more or less purple-tinged ie st oeced: comp essed but 
