Cyperus. ] CYPERACE® (Clarke). 181 
_ Presl, Fl. Stieul. xliii.: Krauss in Flora, 1845, 754. ©. retusus, 
Nees ex Krauss in Flora, 1845, 754. . C. ’ Buchanant, Boeck. Cyp. 
Nove, i, 1888, 4. 
Katanart Recion: Or range Free State; between Harrismith and ses 
sa 212! Transvaal ; ‘Pretoria, Rehmann, 4776! Houtbosch, Rehman 
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an Tol ton: Griqualand East ; oo near Fie Sevag 2500 ft., 
con Kaffir Kraal, Wood, 1581 r Umlaas River, Krauss, 97! 
Co inte pee 7147! and withous precise Shiels, Bachoaon 83! 316! 
‘ In all tropical and warm-temperate regions, except Malaya, Australia, and 
ceanla, 
peg 34. C. corymbosus (Rottb. Deser. et Ic. 42, t. 7, fig. 4); glabrous ; 
stolons stout, becoming a thick woody rhizome ; atoms 2-3 ft. lon 
stout, trigonous at the top, very obscurely transverse-septate ; leaves 
0, or uppermost short ; rays of umbel up to 3-6 in. long; bracts 3-4, 
usually 13-3 in, Jong suberect, keeled ; spikelets numerous, loosely 
or closely spicate, 2 by in,, compressed, 10—18-flow: eidk, straw- 
coloured with red pee =: these G pugedriig 2, ane ovate, 
subobtuse, hardly keeled : stamens 3; anthers linear, not crested ; 
nut scarcely 1 + the length of the he trigonous, obovoid ; style 
shorter than the nut, branches 3 linear, longish. C. B. Clarke in 
~tcidit Linn. Soc. xx. 292, xxi. 158, and in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 
612. ©. articulatus, Kunth, Enum. ii. 53, partly, t.e. the 
Dri eg? examples with the septations of the stems obsolete. 
Fo cree Reaion: Natal; near the mouth of the Umzimkulu River, Drége, 
Throughout the tropical and warm-temperate regions of both hemispheres. 
rhizome | long, 2-1 in, thick, ‘clothed a ovate, acute, pale Eos 
Scales ] in, ae : pores: ms solitary, , 2 ft. long, trigonous, smooth ; ‘leaves 
Usually hardly any, sometimes 2—6 in. long , in Krauss’ type specimen 
Up to 26 in. (Kraues defines the species as leafless) ; umbel con- 
densed more or ess, or rays sometimes up to 7 in. long; bracts 3, 
},Lisnerved on back, shining, pale or brownish ; nut scarcely 3 the 
ength of the glume ; style as long as the nut, branches 3 linear. 
343. 
Boeck. in Linnea, XEEVi- 
“spa AFRICA: withont locality, Harvey, 71! 
ec REGION : Orange Free Sta a Rachaade. 109 ! 
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. Natal ; rsh ala es, Umlaas River, Krauss, 207! 
Durban Pin, Wood, 4102 Emlckenea: “Pie 127! —— Kuntze, 229! 
Without ; see locality, Buchanan, 311! Gerrerl, 4 
Also occurs at the mouth of the Zambesi River. 
a aeles of Pec species are easily recognized ; long-leaved examples 
he gzceedi ugly like o. platystachys, differing chiefly by their 
“*, More shin ning, ae Sones apie! ets. 
