Mariseus.| CYPERACE (Clarke). 189 
Durban Flat, Wood, er A ! Umbilo River, Rehmann, 8443! and without precise 
fecality. Ger rard, 701 
Also in South-east Tropical Africa. 
6. M. sieberianus (Nees in Linnwa, ix. 286) ; glabrous ; rhizome 
very short, of woody nodules or often hardly any; stem 1-2 ft. 
long, not stout, Fateh ate at the top, smooth, not conspicuously 
thickened at the base by inflated leaf-sheaths; leaves nearly as - 
as the stem, 1-1 in. broad, green; umbel simple ; rays 5-12, up to 
1-4 in. long, or fewer or very short; bracts 5-10, similar e the 
ae a _longer than the umbel; spikes solitary, 41-1 
cee. nel red, linear- lanceolate, bearing 1 or 2 nuts; thachilla 
separating below thé lowest fortile clume ; ; glume 1 (lowest) small, 
triangular, with a longish seta (like a bract); glume 2 shorter than 
subquadrate ; clume 3 twice as long as 2, nut-bearing, ovate, ; 
obtuse, strongly 7 “41 -nerved ; stamens 3-2; anthers linear-oblong, 
not crested ; nut : 2-8 the length of the glume, trigonous, linear- 
het finally nearly black ; style + as long as the nut, branches 
3 linear, longish. C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Tul. vi. 622. 
A deltaic, Vahl, Enum. ii. 376 partly ; Kunth, re ii. pe 
almost wholly. Scirpus eyperoides, Linn. Mant. 381. Cyper 
phiiinenn y8, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi, 383. 
VaR. B, e volutior (C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 622); spikelets 
ripening 2-4 nuts, linear 
sala — without locality, Harvey, age 
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Hasrernx ‘Rectow : Tembuland ; ; bee. the “1g River and Morley, 1000- 
“000 ft., Dr Natal; Co 
eae Rehmann, 82 bis ! Howie ‘+k, 1000 ft., abe "O15! and without precise 
ocality, Buchanan, 1541 3 333! Schlechter, 6349! Var. 8, Tewbuland 
pore 2000 ft., Baur, 445! Griqualand East; near Clydesdale, 2500 ft., Tyson, 
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Found in all tropical and warm countries; not in Europe, rare in America. 
This species is ab d t] hout the Old World and Oceania ; oo Mr. 
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with EO iene usually without numbers or locality, it is impossible ooo 
Beg case to say where Drege’s example of MM. vheauis Nees type, ¢ 
7. M. nossibeensis (Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 63); resembling 
ee steberianus, rie larger in all ty parts; stem stouter ; ie 
numerous, up to . long ; spikes 14 by 4 in., very dense ; spikelets 
oblong; nut ellipeeid, much thicker than i in ML. sieberianus, Nees. 
KcaSTERN Reaion : Nutal, Drege, 4425! No South African specimen at 
Also in Tropical Africa aud Madagascar. 
