162 CYPERACEE (Clarke). [Juncellus. 
obtuse, smooth, brown, plane ggreucicss = pressed against the 
rhachill, anterior face convex or somewhat ridged. Cyperus 
evigatus, Linn. Mant. 179; Rottb. Ese a Te. 19, t. 16, jig. 1; 
ay Prod. 18, and Fi. Cap: ed. Schult. shies: Boeck. in Linnea, 
xxxv. 486 ; C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn, Soc. xxi. 77, t. 3, fig. 20, 21, 
and t. 4, fig. $3, mucronatus, oe Doser - ie. 19, ¢. 8, jig. 4: 
Pycreus levigatus, Nees in Linnea, 
Sout AFRICA: without snag Sgn and Zeyher! 
Coast Recion: Malmesbury D oe Mooresbury, Bachmann, 759! Cape 
Div.; Cape Town, Thunberg, Hae 172! 188! oe ‘1786! Nieu- 
wernoolen, Bergiws, 159! Port Elizabeth, Drége, 4882! #. 
8.C.A. Herb., 273! 
CaNTEAS Region: Graaff Reinet Div.; by the Sunday River, 2500 fe, gee 
RN ReGion: Natal; near Durban, Wood, 1365! Rehmann, 859 97! 
18 i 
Keun, "225a! 225b! near Umgeni, Wood, 4007! and without precise locality, 
Gerr 488! 
. in all warm and temperate ag The a a C. B. Clarke 
(C. junciformis, Desfont. Fl. Atlant. i, 42, t. 7, fig. 1), with few, hard, black- 
chestnut spikes is also spread over mas of the world, but no pels Me have beev 
yet seen from South Africa. 
IV. CYPERUS, Linn. 
seriatim beginning with the lowest. Stamens 3-1 anterior. Sty/¢ 
slender, sometimes short; branches 3, long linear, or in C. semitrifidus 
and in som -Cape species) short, weak or obsolete. Nat 
section, smooth ; supatfacal cells nearly square (except in one 
Australian species). 
Usually tacos  lenves all near the base of the stem; inflorescence a t nal 
apparent umbel, or reduced to a single head or skelt 
pias: Species 300, in all warm and temperate regions, 
According to Nees (in Linnea, x. 134), Cyperus Haspan, Linn., was co 
wt evra “ pees airs but the species has not bee 
anyone from South A 
ie I. _ Pycnostachys 
Sinall sniniialis a “a of 1-3 spikelets: 
Spikelets 1 line broad 
ose --. (1) tenellus. 
Spikelet 2 lines broad --- (2) micromegas- 
ti a cate nd of 4-15, spikelets : 
er ll; spikelet 3 line broad loma. 
Stems thickened a s the tase, not annual ; ss 
spikelets brown, af or chestn ant et 
Glumes with long recurved poir .-. (4) meyerianus. 
collected 
een a ~~ in Ecklon’s plants, 
TE eee 
