178 CYPERACE (Clarke). [ Cyperus. 
ae | glumes loosely ec hardly outed, ovate- ee . 
very obtuse, obscurely nerved, margins an tip searious ; stamens 3; 
anthers linear, not crested ; nut + the length of the glume, trigonous, | 
narrow-obovoid, brown ; style & the length of the nut, branche es 3 
linear, moderately exserted from the glume. Kunth, Enum. u. ee ; 
Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 152 ; not of Decaisne. oe scoparius, 
Poir. in Lam. Encye. vii. 253; Kunth, Enum. ii. 75; Willd. US. 
not “he Decaisne (see Presi. in Ol: en, Isis xxi. Ae 
AR. B, an hone es in Flora, 1845, 754) ; het in ci eda leaves 
re Med os be , Nees in Linnea, ix. 285; Kunth, Enu 115, C. 
pte, var, entice, Bosch ex Clarke in Durand na Sohine Conapect. Fi. Afr. 
566, 
Katanwart Reeron: Orange Free State; between Harrismith and Leribe, 
acne 215! Transvaal; Nylstroom River, Nelson 2*! Var. 8, Transvaal ; 
Hou tbosch, Rehmann, 5660! 
EASTERN Reeion: ‘Transkei ; aan! River, te 4442! bbe ban 
near Clydesdale, 2500 ft., Tyson, 2867! Natal; Umlaas River, K; 79: 
Durban Flat, Buchanan, BL Wood, pet and without seca locality, Bu saat an, 
314! Delagoa Bay, Scott / Var. B, N tal; swamps near Umlaas s River, Krauss, 
211! and without precise hdaality, Duikacinn 110! 
. ino in South Tropical Africa and the Mascarene Islands. Var. 8 in 
a 
Ca 29. C. distans (Linn. f. Suppl. 103); glabrous, large or medium- 
sized ; stolons 1; in. in diam., clothed by black-brown acute scales 
+ in. long, but as in other sboleniferons species by no means always 
Sea by the plant, rarely present in herbaria ; 
ong, trigonous am the top, smooth, somewhat sle nder ; leaves neatly 
as lo ong as the stem, 1—! in, broad ; umbel usually 4-8 in. in diam. 
REA go the umbel, similar to the leaves; spikelets loosely 
3 
variants in breadtl and ‘1g in. in Rehmann, 7752, 
10-20-flowered ; thachilla ase winged, the linear- lnncoy 
scarious-white wings finally dehiseing from the base (exactly as 
C. rotundus, ‘fastigiatus, Se.) ; glumes distant, hardly boat- ape 
ic, obtuse, 3-nerved, green on the back; stamens 3; anthers 
Bane 
trigonous, oblong or somewhat oboy oid, brown ; style much shorter 
than the nut, branches 3 linear, a little exserted hays the glume. 
Beauv, Fl. Owar. i. 35, t. 20; Kunth, Enum. ii. 93; Boeck. 
Linnea, xxxv. 612; ©. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. S . xxi. 144, 
and in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 607. . elatus, —- in Oken, 
Isis, xxi. 271; Boeck. in Flora, 1879, 551; not of La 
Coast Region: Komgha Diy. ; 3; Flanagan, see 
Katanart Region: Transvaal; Cave Mountains, Nelson, 95! Houtbosch, 
septa 5656! 
ERN REGION: Tembuland ; between Morley and the Umtata River» 
Bikes, 4434! 4435! Natal; Clairmon nt, Kuntze, =m Durban, Buchanan, 19! 
