Cyperus. | CYPERACE® (Clarke). 171 
medium-sized, but rather weak; stems tufted, 4-20 in. long, 
triquetrous at the top ; leaves often 2 the length ‘of the stem, } in. 
usually 20-60 spikelets; bracts 3-4, similar to the leaves, lowest 
2-10 in, long; spikelets 2 by 5 in., 10~30-flowered, dark red; 
glumes minute, round, obtu se, concave, not imbricated in fruit; 
stamen 1, rarely 2 ; anther small, oblong, obtuse; nut equally trigonous, 
subglobose, as long as the glume or nearly sO, pale brown ; style much 
shorter than the nut ; branches . brane not elongate. Sp. Plant, 
ed. 2, 67; Rottb. Dew et ae f. 9 fig. 2% Neus in Linnea, 
x, 138 ; Kunth, Enum. ii. 38; Boee sa in Linnea, Xxxv. 586, and in 
Flora, 187 3, 550 ; CO. 8, PAN in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 599. 
Coast BEGION : Alban ny nei near Grahamstown, 2000 ft., WacOwan, 1347! 
Komgha Div. ; Flanagan, 1262 
; me Rreion : =e Div. ; mountain near Commadagga, Burchell, 
ype ARI REGION; teas hagr Bosch Veld, Rehmanzn, s 51 
EGION : Pranake ; bank s of Bashee River, bel on ft. Bod 
3918! Vaueeee. between Un tata River and St. Jo hns ie. 1000-2009 f 
Droge, 4428! 4429! Natal, Gerrard, 702! Wood, 4953! Kuntze, 223! 
A Hie tote weed in all warm and warm-temperate regions of the Old World, 
also in 
16. C. oe (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Con- 
spect. Fl. Afr. v. 564, name only) ; glabrous, medium-sized ; stems 
1-2 ft. long, ttiquetrous at the top, th lateral shoots at the base ; 
leaves often 2 + the Jength of the stem, + in. broad; umbel 1-5 in. 
in diam, , compound ; ‘spikes often aggregated near the end of the 
Tays ; bracts 3-4, similar to the leaves, lowest attaining 4-8 in. in 
length; spikelets 20-40, densely and ‘elobosely fascieled, chestnut- 
Ted, 3 in. , strongly compressed, 8—-12-flowered, hard, shining 
glumes beak. shaped, 3~—l-nerved, mucronate, regularly and closely 
Imbricate ; stam s 3; nut 2 the length of the glume, trigonous, 
ellipsoid, anno at each ond: ; style- branches 3, long. 
Katanari Ree : Orange Free State, Buchanan, 124! Transvaal; Hooge 
Veld, nce erro! 6783! 
STERN ReGton: Natal ; igen Berg, 5000 ft., Kuntze, 241! and without 
Precise locality, Schlechter, 6356! 676 
Xs 
tik (seen) short ; stems approximate, 1-22 ft. sae acutely tr 
quetrous at the top; leaves often 2 the length of the. ste 1-1 in. 
ad ; umbel et its or decompo und, 9-5 in. in diam. 5 ; ‘bracts 
flo 5, digitate, ronscralt 4 jy; in., m moderat 
eles. glumes boat-shaped, ovate, shortly mah nearly nerveless 
Stamens 3; anthers linear, not crested ; nut nearly y 
length of the nut; branches 8, linear, exserted a little from the 
glume. FI. Cap. edit. Schul, 100; Nees in Linnes, x. 133, 
