180 CYPERACE® (Clarke). [ Cyperus. 
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clo y numerous imbricate seales, outer striate, inner shining 
smooth, m germination producing a simple shoot from the vertex 
+z In. in the dried examples), which grows erect to near the 
surface of the soil where it divides and forms the new stem-base ; 
stem 4-10 in. long, slender, trigonous at the top, smooth ; pete 
overtopping the stems, narrow with whip-like ends but muc 
widened (usually 2 in. wide) close to the base; umbel 3-12 in. in 
diam., with 6-30 s pikelets, sub-corym bose, i ‘imperfectly umbelled, 
lowest ray often 1-1 in. below the next ; - si longer than the 
umbel, similar to the leaves ; ; i s on iets , 8-12 2-flowered, 
comapeonselt, shining dark-re vinbilla ee hyaline Wings 5 
then withering ; bulbs globose or ovoid, }—} in. long, dark-brown, 
the 
nut, branches 3 line ear, long, mitch ¢ canes from the glume. Nees 
in Linn, vil. 516, ix. 285, excluding a *: a Kunth, Enum. 
li. 107; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 511; Clarke in Journ. 
Linn Soe: xxi. L7G, excluding syn. C. spelt Me solidus, 
Ku nth, Enum. ii. 76 partly. C. bulbifex, EH. Meyer MS.; Drége in 
Linnwa, xx. 245, and Pflanzengeogr. Documente 177, (ifn om 
Coast Rereion: Paarl Div.; Paarl : ome tains, 2000-3000 ft., es 
Uitenhage Div.; Ecklon and Zeyher Bathurst Div. 5.” Port Autre 
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CENTRAL Reeton: Prince Albert Div.; betwe the pei River and 
4 +3 ite “Ba e  Btation nes 
: Halt,” Burchell, 2684! Albert ed s murahosdes: ee ae r, 1376! aad 
Aliwal North Div.; bank of the On range River r pene prihiing ‘North, 430 
Drege! Colesberg Div. ; a near Colesberg, 2 
E 
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STERN Reeion: Little Na ssnaqualnd, rae 43 1 the 
Katanart ReGion: Griqualand We ast 5 Haig “Gri riqua Town anc : 
Asbestos Mountains, Burchell, sr 2082 ! Orange Free St: oh Caledon po 
! Burke, 302! Draai Foutein, Rehmann. 3084! Bloem pnb 
Kuntze, 245! Transvaal; Bamboes Bprait, Nelson, 97! avd without prec 
locality, McLea in Herb. Bolus, 6013! 
33. C, esculentus (Linn. Sp. Plant. ed. ii. 67); glabrous ; stolons 
is in. in diam., clothed by pale ferruginous lanceolate scales g MD. 
g, terminated often by zonate, ellipsoidal, woody tubers 1 in. long, 
hardening ultimately into tough woody rhizomes ; stems $-16 in- 
long, erect at the base, rather slender at the top, i aringe ae smooth ; 
leaves often as long as the stem, 1 in. broad; umbel 2-6 in. ry 
iam., usually once compound ; bracts 3-4, overtopping the ae 
similar to the leaves ; spikelets spicate .a by {3 in., compress¢ 
pale, often somewhat golden, 8-14-flow mee — scarious- 
d; —— — Hight omy eon cage (in 
much shorter than the nut, branches 3 — long. Kunth, Enwm- 
ii, 61; Boeck, in Linnea, xxxvi. 287; C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. 
Soe. xxi. 178, and in er: Bee. fee vi. 616. C. Tenoril, 
