Cyperus.] CYPERACE® (Clarke). 167 
as long as the stem, hardly 3, in. broad; apex cylindric, setaceous, 
many-striate, microscopically rough-tuberculate (in Kunth’s example 
¢~s i., 8-16-flowered ; glumes overlapping, boat-s aped, ovate, some- 
what inflated, 5-ribbed ; keel subexcurrent into a microscopic point; 
stamens 3 ; anthers linear, not crested ; nut 3 the length of the glume, 
trigonous, obovoid, dusky black ; style much shorter than the nut ; 
branches 3, linear, long. Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv.510. C. cognatus, 
Kunth, Enum. ii. 52; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 511. 
AST Recion: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, 2500 ft., Schlechter, 421! 
Stockenstrom Div.; Kat Berg, 4000-5000 ft., Drége/ Komgha Div. ; between 
Zandplaat and Komgha, 2006-3000 ft., Drége,, 4393. Cathcart Div.; between 
Windvogel Mountain and Zwart Kei River, 3000-4000 ft., Drége, 7395! 
VENTRAL REGION: Graaff Reinet Div. ; summit of Tandjes Berg, near Graaff 
Reinet, 4700 ft., Bolus, 760 ! Somerset Div.; summit of Bosch Berg, 5000 ft., 
MacOwan, 1993 ! 
Eastern Region: Natal; Inanda, Wood, 344! 
The type specimens of Kunth’s C. cognatus and C. rupestris in the Kew 
herbariuin appear identical, 
Te 7. C. amnicola (Kunth, Enum. ii. 52); leaves more fleshy, obtuse 
at tip; spikelets a trifle narrower; glumes hardly mucronate ; other- 
wise as C. rupestris, Kunth. Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 509. 
Eastern Region: Pondoland; between St, Johns River and Umtsikaba 
River, 1000-2000 ft., Drage, 4392 ! 7394! Bachmann, 88! 
Also occurs in Angola, according to Ridley. 
8. C. parvinux (C. B. Clarke); glabrous; stem 1-8 in. long, 
united at the base on a very short rhizome, somewhat thickened by 
leaf-sheaths ; leaves often as long as the stem, setaceous; margins 
of sheaths prominently white-scarious; bracts 2, lower up to 
2 in, long, similar to the leaves ; spikelets 5-14 in 1 head, up to 
s SY xo in., 8-36-flowered, compressed, bright eeteagep TAKE or 
n 
very etna] ee gnthers oblong bovoid 
¥ Small, searcely 1 the length of the glume, plane-convex, © 
obtuse, smooth, dark-brown, glistening by reflection from the inflated - 
vurfaces of the superficial cells ; style as long as the nut ; branches 3, 
long, linear, 
CENTRAL Region : Albert Di 000-6000 ft., Kuntze, 264! 
: rt Diy. ; Molteno, 5 ft., Kuntze, 
pe sPAHARK Region : Phnsibial Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5648! Bosch Veld at 
lands River, Rehmann, 4998 
