Cyperus. | CYPERACEH (Clarke). 175 
Sourn AFRICA: igs locality, Thunberg, Thom, 890! Bergius, 171! 
Ecklon and Z , 124 129! 
OAST REG C ‘Div. 3; Ca 
Flats, ianean, 1775 | Burke! Pei 4860! Salt Pia “Burchell, 507! 687! 
berg, 100 50 Dr chter, ! Paarl Di 
! 0 e 
Doorn River, below 1000 ft. ; Drége. Riversdale Div.; Kaftirkuils River, Gill / 
Uitenhage Div. ; Ecklon pee Zeyher, 170! Bathurst Div.; near Theopolis, 
Burchell, 4055 ! 
This is a colonist near Bordeaux, and Sar been collected in Algiers by Munby. 
Cultivated 4 in Mauritius, according to Bojer 
ae ee 1.e aati with a 
line or rib down the centre of each ce; otherwise as C. textilis, 
Thunb.— Kunth, Enum. ii 2; Krauss in Flora, 1845, 754; Boeck 
in Linnea, xxxv. 568. O. webbianus, Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 20. 
Sourm Arrica: without locality, Zeyher, 1746! Ecklon and Zeyher, 11! 
Coast Region: Ki rool ler gare Div. ; Yellowwood River, 1000- 2000 ft., 
166 
CENTRAL REGION ‘eines aie ; Fish ye! Burke ! 
WESTERN Reeiow: L Little Namaqualand, Scully ! 
Katanart Reaion :. Transvaal; Pre mga ae n, 4775! 
nied Rise eine Transke ie Bashce gre r, below rae mide Drége, 4443! 
4444! Natal; Umlaas River, Ira 46! Fie Maritzbur urg ; Kra auss, 
eu ci iy 300 ft., Wood, 4029 |" and wishoes alah tosslity, Buthanan, 
i in Tropical Africa. 
In Woz od, 4029, from Nat tal, the stem is tri nO irregularly or obscurely 
G-angled, and resembles much that of the nearly-allied pia ce Rottb. ; 
but the spikelets in Wood, 4029, are rather those of C. sexan 
2 ae 23. C. isocladus (Kunth, Enum. ii. 37) ; Bebe —_ creep- 
ing, 
s~¢ in. in diam., with ovate brown: scales n. long; stems 
1-92 ft. long., triquetrous at the top, often minutely scabrous ; leaves 
0; uppermost sheath produced on one side a hardly acute, not 
ae to 2 by ay in, . compressed, brown ay dirt rty Daw leeee 
6-12-flo wered ; — ovate, truncate, 3-nerved; keel hardly 
excurrent as a point : ; stamens 3; anthers linear-oblong, not erested ; 
nut minute, scarcely + the length of the glume, trigonous, obov oid: 
white o T pa ale- brown; style slender about as long as the nut ; ceneni 
3, Meese shortly exserted from the glume. C. equalis, Krauss in 
Flora, 1845, 1534. Ce equalis, var. B, Boeck. / im Peters, imc. 
38, and in Linnea, park 578. C.4jocladus, Drege and E. Meyer, 
Planzengeogr. Documente 177. C. —— Drege and E. Meyer, 
Me. = 2 ee 8 aii iead Drege le. 17 
Ri ON: Pondoland; between icici River and St. Johns 
Rive, Degg 4430! 4431! 4493: Ba shone 1 BE! 9 ! 96 oor a Soest: 
Maco wan and Boke aes Nore: sass, Airs TOsaT Daron, Rehmann, 8623 ! 
360 | langa Valley, Wood, 1 1331! and without precise locality; Buchanan, 106! 
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