184 cYPERACE® (Clarke). [ Cyperus. 
eit 000 ft., Drege! Bothas Hill, 2000 ft., MacOwan, 1270! King Williams- 
Div.; near Toise River rat 3700 ft., Kuntze, 281! Queenstown 
Dr ; Shiloh, 3500 ft., Baur, 888! 898 
CENTRAL REGION: Rial North Div.; Kraai Spee 4500 ft., Drege! : 
ese Recion: Griqualand We ey by the Vaal River, Bur chell, 1773! 
e Free State; near Winburg, Buchana fet Transvaal ; Schoon Spruit, 
near "Klerksiorp, Nelson, 57! Hooge Veld, ees Porter and Teigards Fontein, 
EAsteRN <a Jon; Transkei; between Gekau and Pel: bags aaa er, 
saree ft., Drége. Natal; Vola River, Krauss, 65! 161 ottin 
Bucha n, 135! Durban Flat, wove , 4412! Wood, TOT! 4088 ! and thon 
precise eae Buchanan, 91! 317! 
39. C. immensus (C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 294); 
. by - 
often a foo tena ae 4-8, similar to the leaves, lowest often 
24 by 1 in. ; seconda pis umbels with many rays and bracts 1-4 in. 
long ; spikes 1} by 4 in., cylindric, dense, of 30-70 spikelets, eer 
ore or less compo ympres 
yellow or straw-coloured, 10-20-flowered ; wings of rhachilla linear- 
lanceolate, or linear, yellow, soon separating, caducous ; ; glumes closely 
3 
glume, pagers ellipsoid, pyramidal at the ends, brown ; style as 
long as t, branches 3 linear. C. alapecuroides, var. a dives, 
Boeck, in palates XXXVi. 321. 
EGION: Orange Free on Buchanan, 103! Transvaal ; Cave 
Mosutaine Great Spelonke, Nelson, 
A 
Recion: Natal; swamp near Sydenham, Wood, 4093! 5807! 
Kast : d, 
and without Age locality, Drege, 4446! Buchanan, 335! Delagoa Bay; 
Fo mel ! Kuntze, 299! 
Also in Tropical Africa me EP 
This ae from 0. exaltatus, Retz. (C. alopecuroides, Boeck.), not only by its 
great size and large nha eat t by the deciduous yellow wings of the rhachilla ; 
ig ray character eis the structure and habit generally) bring it next the Ir dian 
digitat 
40. C. al cesta (Roem, and Schultes, Syst. ii. 87 6)5 
glabrous ; rhizome woody, fa Grog ; stems 5-12 ft. long, stout, 
hardly keeled; nut 3 the length of the glume, obtusely trigonous, 
ellipsoid, dusky black. Kunth, ies li. 64, apyrus, formd, 
Vahl, Enum, ii. 366 in Obs. ; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 304, Papyrus 
madagascariensis, Willd. in Abhandl. Akad. Berlin, 1812, 72. 
Eastern REGION: Delagoa Bay, Forbes ! 
Also in the Mascarene Islands. 
The description of the species here given is taken shortly from Madagascat 
