188 CYPERACE® (Clarke). [ Mariscus. 
the stem-base ; a cara ovoid, 1—% in. long, of 1 or 2-6 con- 
fluent spikes; bracts 3-4, similar fo eh leaves, lowest 3-7 In. 
long; spike of ve 2 numerous, densely crowded. spikelets, straw- 
cme red or fusco ikelets + in. =; in., not compressed, 
mewhat baie i wre (usually hs 4) nutted ; : rhachilla with broad 
scarious persistent wings, disarticulating below the lowest fertile 
flower, usually falling with the glumes and nuts; glumes ovate, 
hardly acute, not keeled, strongly 13-15-ribbed over nearly their 
whole breadth; stamens 3-2; anthers oblong, not crested; nut 
about 4 the length of the glume, trigonous, oblong-obovoid, dusky 
hake. style shotise than the nut; branches 3. linear, longish. 
C. B. Clarke in Hook f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 620. M. Kraussii, Hochst. 
in Flora, 1845, 756. M. kyllingiaformis, Boeck. in Flora, 1859, 
, +96. Ciiperus le Rottl. in Neue Schr. Gesell. Nat. Freunde 
Berlin, i iv. 1803, 193; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 336 partly; C. B. 
Clarke in Journ. Lian Soc xxi. 197, not of Rottb. CU. kyllin- 
geoides, Vahl, Enum. ii. 312; Kunth, Enum. ii. 94.  Schawnus 
coloratus, var. Bs Linn. Sp. Plant. ed. ii. 64. S. niveus, Linn. Syst 
Veget. ed. xii 
R. 8, Buchanani i. B. Cl: rege in sects and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. 
.. 887) 5 & spikelets elongated up to 4 the flowers not being more aan 
sak more distant on the rhachilla. 
Katavarit Recion: Transvaal; acy sage ees 5637 ! 
EastkRN Reeion: Transkei; Bashee River, 1000 ft., Drége / Tembuland ; 
between the Bashee River and Morley, 1000-2000 Fes Apis ’ Poxsdoland, 
Bachmann, 99! 100! 101! Natal; Unolaas Be ver 6! Durban Flat, 
Buchanan, 31! Clairmont, Kuntze, 33271 25971 ae Heat precise loca ality, 
Buchanan, 82! Gerrard, 460! Grant! Deland oa Bay, Junod, 151! 233 partly ! 
Var. 8, Natal; Durban Flat, Buchanan! 
Also in Tropical Africa, the Masearene Islands, and Tropical India to 
orneo, 
The var. B oe much M. macrocarpus below ; out ae the spikelets les ess 
green and: much more densely crowded ; it looks very differ t from the ordinary 
torm of M. pane but a similar state occurs in Madra 
eg 5. M. vestitus (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 
Afr. v. 595); glabrous, stolons 0 ; stem 6-14 in. long, "rather slender, 
trigonous at the top, smooth, much thickened at the base by the 
inflated coloured leaf-sheaths ; leaves aera! as long as the stem 
es in. broad, weak ; umbel simple; rays 2~7, 3-1} in. lon ng; brae ts 
3-5, similar to the Toaves, lowest vii in. long; spikelets closely 
spicate, 7-20 in a spike, + by +4, in., 6-10-flowered, scarcely com- 
pressed ; glumes ovate, strongly 1S-nerved, reddish, with an eX- 
nearly half as long as the glume, peer ellipsoid, black ; style 
shorter than the n nut, branches 3 linear, longish. Cy 'yperus vestitus, 
foe. ex Krauss in Flora, 1845, 75D. C. usitatus, Boeck. ™ 
Linnea, xxxv. 511 partly; C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soe. 
xxi. 176, not of Burchell. 
Eastern Reaion: Natal; margin of woods around Durban Bay, Krauss, 287! 
