176 cYPERACE# (Clarke). [ Cyperus. 
C. prolifer, Lam. (C. zqualis, Vahl), is a frequent plant in South-east 
Tro ropical Africa and the Mascarene Isla nds, and has the stem trigonous or nearly 
terete at the top. From this C. isoc eine o differs in its triquetrous stem. 
Boeckler Te be judicious in uniting t ; but several of the ——s 
species are kept distinct on the same cn siacanies viz. stem triquetrous or 
stem roundish. 
ie 24. C. albostriatus (Schrad. Anal. Fl. Cap.7); glabrous ; stolen 
clothed by dark brown, elliptic scales, hardening into woo y rhizomes 
3-1 in. in diam. ; stems 8-20 in. long, rather slender but age 
trigonous at the top ; ; leaves numerous, all near the base of the stem, 
as ‘long as the stem or only 3 that len ngth 18 in. broad, grass-like, 
i c 
spikelets often all solitary, pedicelled, but some enehiner 10 many 
2-4-digitate oceur, + by ~;—~; in., com thin pale-brown, 8-24- 
flowered ; glumes “ovate, acute or obtuse, not keeled ? 
margins scabrous; stamens 3; anthers linear, not crested ; nut + the 
length of the glume, trigonous, ellipsoid, brown ; style scarcely } the 
length of the nut ; branches 3, linea, rather short. Kunth, Enum. ii. 
34; Krauss in Flora, q : Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 581. C. 
Mariscus, Nees in Linnea, vii. 515, x. 134; Kunth, Enum. ii. 106. 
C. pulcher, Spreng. in Flora, 1829, Band i. Beil. 5; not of Thunb. 
sia 
Coasv Brotoy ale sacs E.S ties Herb., 189! Alexandria peed ; 
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een. 3500 ft., Kuntze, —. Bathurst Div. ; “Port Alfred, ohn indi 0 
RAL REGION: Somerset Div. ; Bosch ‘Berg, Burchell, 3133! Ow 
Katana ART REGIoN: Transvaal; Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5659! 
Eastern REGiIon: Tembuland, "Bendin: 2500-3000 ft., Baur, 578! Pondoland, 
Bachm mann, 85! Griqualand ast 5 Umzimkulo Div.,: at Emyembi, 5000 ft. 
ie : 
atal G m- 
Hert. ris] Rocio 48! Umibilo Riv. akon mann, ” 8093 ! Howick, Junod, 307! 
nanda, Wood, 1088! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 361! Krauss rauss 10! 
230! 
mere 
. C. prasinus (Kunth, Enum. ii 31); leaves 20 by + 
asnuiinae, tough, many-nerved ; bracts narrow, acuminate ginilat Es 
the leaves ; otherwise as C. albostriatus, Schrad.—Boeck. in Linnea,’ 
XXXV. 584. 
Coast Rraton: East London, Kuntze, 271! 
Katanart Reeion: Transvaal ; Hontbosch, Rehman 5653! 
EasreRN ReGion: Pondoland, Drege, 4440! 
Boeckler distinguishes this plant fr ray preps by its being monandrouss ig 
4 find three stamens in the lower, cade two in upper ‘Moreover, the 
nut, and the remarkable scabrous margins to = glothin, are ibe ee 
