Ps 20. ¢. 
horizontal, thick, woody, often several in. long, wit ate scales ; 
tems 21 h 
Cyperus. ] CYPERACER (Clarke). 173 
STERN REGION: Natal; Umlaas River, Krauss, 215! and without precise 
gee a ba 123 ! Magid" 700! Dr 7 Tie: Delagoa Bay, Speke, 
2! Menyhart, Junod, 87! Kun 
es in Tropical yr? ica and mrentiey 
This “oF hardly differs from C. ee but by the nieces of leaves ; 
Yar. 8 is intermediate between the two species, and might be iow ed to 
indicate t at sph erospermus is only the leafy state. of C. donate alus—as 
Kunth treated it in his naming of Drége’s collection. 
Pret C. denudatus (Linn. f. Suppl. 102); glabrous, stout ; rhizome 
0 
besser thick, woody, often several in. long, with o vate scales ; 
em 2 ft. long, acutely triquetrous at the top ; leaves none, upper- 
ary sheath produced on o e- Aa se ses acute ; umbel 
compound or decompound, 1-6 in racts 2, lower erect 
style, rs as in 2. shersprmasm Se d. in Flora, 1829, 152; 
Kunth, ee ft 35. C epretus, Steud. Syn. Pl. am 
C. amphibolus, Steud. Sun yn. Pl, Glum. ii. 22. C. lanceus, Schultes in 
Roem. et Sc chultes, Syst. ii. Mant, 106, not of Thunb. 
Sourn Arrica: wivon’ locality, Wallich! Sieber, 109! Harvey, 361! 
Eeblon ond Zeyher, 14! 15 
Coast Region : Clan Sham D ; Gift Bay) 1500-2500 ft., Drége / between 
Piquiniers Kloof and ritecnaaity River, aoe 00 ft., Drége, Ca pe Div.; Table 
Mountain, Ecklon, 888! Burke, 329! Paarl Div. ; by the Berg River, Drage! 
Worcester Div. ; mountains above Windetes, Rehm mann, 2578! Caledon Div. ; 
Grabuuw, near Pal almiet River, 700 ft., Bolus, 4232! eas sg bs Zo nder 
Kinde River below 1000 f . Riv 
’ t.; Drége. ier ale Div.; 
Burchell, a ! Uitenhage Div. ; thet the mouth of the ae River, Drige 
Albany Di -3 near Grahamstown, 1000-2 ft., Drége, MacOwan, 
Gletng, Drage f King Williamstown Div.; ; 2000 ft., Kuntze, 269! ‘Komgba 
Katamari Riotow Orange Free State, Buchanan, 108! Transvaal; Hout- 
; a 
Eastern Reorio t iekaei: between Bashee River and Morley, Drege, 
8! Nats tal; Ioan, 1200 ft., Wood, 13898! and without precise locality, 
Buchanan, 313 ; 
Also in South gia Africa and Madagascar. 
ikelets very variable in length, usually 4~} in., sometimes $-1 in. ; not 
varying much in breadth, 
marginatus (Thunb. Prod. 18) ; eager A rhizome 
ft. long, _ terete at the top; leaves none ; uppermost 
Nearly all Solitary chestnut lew li oe “ y in, 
, a » gus ening. pt $ 
aes — tha : + in.), 6-38-flowered, strongly compressed, 
hard - arcely 
2 
e 
nerved ; % st 8 
anthers linear, not crested ; nut > 2 the ] 
int; margins often glistening, 
valine 3 Meinans. 3; ength 
