166 CYPERACES (Clarke). [ Cyperus. 
pyramidal at both ends, smooth, black ; style short; branches 3, 
linear, long. Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv 506. 
Sour Arrica: without locality, ea 174! No specimen at Kew. 
4. C. meyerianus (Kunth, Enum. ii. 49); glabrous, weak ; stems 
—3 in. long, tufted on the apex of a shortly-divided, slender ee 
thickened at the base 4 numerous a rust-coloured sheaths ; leaves 
nearly as long as the stem, 3'5 in. broad, flaccid ; bracts 2; lower up 
to Lin. ig similar to the Sao ; spikelets 7-1, sessile in one head, 
1—t in. long and broad, much compressed, 12-flowered ; glumes close- 
packed, ae Gack: ovate, strongly 7-nerved, rose-red, ~ surmounted 
a subterminal, lanceo ate-linear, recurved mucro longer than the 
glume ; stamens 3-2; nut } as long as the glume without the mucro, 
triquetrous, ovoid, acute, ‘subacuminate at the top, dark-brown, 
almost rough from the ‘reticulated white, superficial cells ; style 
shorter than nut ; branches 3, long linear. Boeck. in Linnea, XXXV. 
pt Steud. Syn, Pl. Glum. ii. 29 Chiespdltansch by typog. error in 
index). 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Drége, 7421! 
5. C. Teneriffe (Poir. in Lam. Eneye. vii. nit glabrous, sa 
ous 
nln stolons 0; stems 3-12 in. long, medium sized, trigon 
e apex, smooth; bases thickened 3 leat sheath clustered on a 
pe short rhizome ; leaves 2 the length of the stem, 1-3 in. broad, 
usually flaccid ; sheaths inflated, scarious-red sats, oceasionally 
rigid, very little inflated ; ee 2, lowest 2~3 in. long, ae to the 
leaves ; spikelets 3-20 in ead, large, much compressed, 1 0-36- 
flowered, up to y {in.; eine close-packed, boat-shaped, ovate; 
rose-red or pale-red, 9—15-ribbed ; keel ienag ti in a strong, erect, 
acute-pyramidal point; stamens 3; anthe near, not crested ; nut 
a me, obovoid, blk, alieenbuadil by white, 
superficial cells; style as long as the nut ; branches 3, linear, hardly 
ong as the styl B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 601. 
C. rubicundus, Kunth, ey ii. 49; Webb and Berth. Iles Canaries, 
Phyt. iii. pt. iii. 361, #. 24 O (nut depicted much too acute at the eth 
aor Pflanzengeogr Documente 147 ; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 50 
not 
SoutH ARICA : without einer Bolus, a Ecklon and Zeyher, 17! 
Coast _— gare ge Ecklon. East Londo mn Div.; cultivated speci- 
men! Komgh near Komg "2000 ft , Flanagan, 1013 - 
Uitenhage Bie, 300 ft, » Schlechter, 2485 ! 
Katanarr Recon : Trans vaal, Bosch Veld at Klippan, ea 9 5349! 
Eastern Ree@ion: Transkei, Drage, 5349. Natal, Drége, 4395 
x —- from Teneriffe throughout Africa and Wisdihide ir to the Madras 
nins 
This species has been greatly confused, being still marked in most Europea? 
herbaria, and by South “Atri collectors, C. rubicundus, Vahl. From Vabl’s 
mipsel ta Ay also from ndian locality) it is sifcenty. sige that his 
¢, type specim the Copen- 
! 
cundus was not vasniiies and from t 
hagen acheive, Vahl’s C. rubicundus was C. brunnews, Secentas 
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