rode, CYPERACEE (Clarke). 169 
ing brown; in Krauss, 324 (and in many others), the spikelets are 53; in. 
sei and dirty-w BP oso 
in ] head. + by 2 et compresse “but mueh th icker than in 
C. compactus, ‘shining straw-coloured, 10—20-flowered ; glumes boat- 
shaped, ovate, obtuse, strongly 11- 15-nerved, less closely packed but 
mote inflated than in C. compactus ; margins not incurved ; nut large, 
35 the length of the glume, ellipsoid, acute at the top, strongly oo 
lack. 
Bh with concave faces, du a peck. in gti XXXV 
Sour Arrica: without locality, ade 17 i Salsdiig 1022 
Western Reciow: South of the pic, Cur 
N: Gsigwhioie Wests vil Griqua Town and Witte 
AHARI REGIOo 
Water, Burchell, 1992 ! between egts Fontein and Klip Fontein, Burchell, 
Kne 
2613! Hebron, by the Vaal River, Nelson, 183! Orange River, Curzon ! Trans 
waal ; Bosch Vald-at tee are Paton, ae KES , 4855! Magalies Berg, Burke! 
South African Gold Fields, Bains! and without precise locality, McLea in Herb. 
Bolus, 6014! Be chuanaland ; ey Fo dete Burchell, 2575 ! 
Distributed throughout Tro 
greatly in the width of the leave and in ee size of the spikelets. Some ex cumple 
have mr a pod sin and leaves, ep and one very small s spk kel oy wae chat 
= in, wide, others have ikea lby 2in. ‘The distribution will require emenda- 
tion, if the speck es be subdivided. 
rf 11. C. bellus (Kunth, Enum. ii. 52); glabrous, annual; stems 
lon 
tufted, 2-7 in Tein slender, trigonous; leaves half as long as the 
stem, subset ous; head of 3-30 spikelets; rays O-} in. ong i 
bracts 2-3, iii slightly dilated at the base, lowest up to 2 in 
long, subere ct; spikelets fascicled,} by ~, in., 26-flowered, or 
much smaller as in the examples deseribed by Kunth, compressed, 
with parallel sides, dusky red ; glumes boat-shaped, in ie" fered 
overlapping, stb obtuse, scarcely mucronate, strong ¥:> ribbed ; 
thachilla not inged ; stamens 2 or 1; nut small, 3-3 the length 
of the glu ang trigonous, obovoid, subobtuse, smooth, dull ashy 
black ; style shorter than the nut; branches 5 linear, shortly ex- 
Serted from the glume. Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 509. 
Sourn Ar FRICA: without locality, Drége, 7396 
ranatant Region: Orange Free State ; Cea Vet River, Burke! Zeyher, 
2. ¢ fuscescens (Link, Jahrb. iii, 83); glabrous, annual ; stems 
tufted, 4—7 in, long ; leaves often 3 the length of the stem, 3}; zo In. 
broad head of 5-15 spikelets ; rays 0-1 in. long; bracts 2-3, 
lowest 12 in. long, suberect ; spikelets fascicled, 
3 -Y ve in., 12-flowered, brown; nut oblong, 2 the length of the 
t; branches 3, linear, much exserted from the 
glume, Kunth, Enum. ii. 51; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 527. 
