192 CYPERACEX (Clarke). { Mariscus. 
end of a ray) of many spikelets, usually compound, more or less 
corymbose, dense, with very small or no bract ; spikelets spicate, $ by 
wings oblong , hyaline, persistent ; glumes rather distant, elliptic- 
oblong, obtuse, searcely keeled, 7-9-striate on the back, green or pale, 
sides red; stamens 3; anthers linear-oblong, not cre ested s nut 2 the 
length of "the glume, oblong-ellipsoid, obtuse, ie tras neuly black; 
style slender, rather shorter than the nut, branches 3 as long as the 
style. Cyperus congestus, Vahl, Enum. ii. 358; Schrad. Anal. Fl. 
C 
(p Nees in Linnea, Wit. O18 + x. 136 (excl. var ee be h, 
Enum. ii. 87 ; a in Linnea, xxxvi. 347; C. ke in 
Journ. "Linn. Soc 182; not of Potret. C. sat po in 
Flora, 1829, 153; ae of Desfont. 
Var. B, asia (C. B. Clarke) ; larger, brighter ; nee Se re 
primary rays up to 6 in. long; spikelets up to 1 in. long, 20-nutted, bright b 
red with Fallows ket ; a yellow gland beneath th two ost 6 esto glume 
each spikelet. Cyperus congestus, var. glanduliferus, C. B. Clarke in Durate 
and Sehins Conspect, . Afr. v, 55 
Van. 7, brevis (C. B. Clarke) 5 stem robust, short or long; bulbous, woody 
the base, with stolon 4 in. long a ] nearly condensed it 4 compound sete 
spikelets very numerous, ore 4 vellow-brown. Saale congests var. brevis, 
GR: -— in Durand and Schinz, Diidvpe ect. U, congestus, 
var. a, Nees in Linnea, x. 137. C. brevis, Boeck. in tou, xxxvi. dhl. 
Soutn Ar SRIOR : withont eng Dréye, 4422! a and Zeyher, 2% 24! 
abitlag 168! Krels, 13! Har 368! ey, 102 se River, $500 ft it., 
Kuntze, 272! va y, Ecklon. iat Gales 
Coast Re@ion: Cape Div.; Cape Town, Bebonann, gi Table — in, 
Lad Drege. 
Queenstown 5 Ba ! 850! A 
Grahamstown, 2009 fr., MacOwan, 496! Var. %, Siteahage Div.; ZAwartko 
504 ! or 
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ENTRAL RKecion: Graaff Reinet, MacOwan, ois: bert Div. ; Cooper. r, 656! 
age 9 neg . ig ance West, Ongeluk, cle eee Orange Free 
jer Buchanan Transvaal; Pretoria, Kuntze, ! nn, 4037! 
- t774i Houtbosch, bein: 3655 | ! and witheas precise locality, peace in Herb. 
ules, 814! 
HAs — Bago Pondoland; between the Umtentu River and Umzimkulu 
River, Bachmann, 90!" = tal; Coast-land, 0-5000 ft., Sutherland ! 
Moblamba Fa 5000-6000 ft., Sat. erland ! Mooi River Statior , Kuntze, 24 et 
Howick, 1000 ft., Junod, a ! ee without a locality, Backuaae, 326! 
Beblechiov, 6351! "Var r. B, Natal, Buchanan, 315 
Also in St. Helena, wel kias itégian, ae Australia. 
This species, though pues allied to the twelve cared joe is, as to 
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technical 
diaguosis, poorly separated from the genus Cyperus ; the rhachilla of the spikelet 
pei i ies 
an m ena 
species has been for r nearly a century coltivaded in Kurope. There are so many 
end, 
pare ee sent from the Mediterranea o peel, capecially its eastern arkey 
digenous ples (marked as 
Asia Minor, that it would appear in 
‘thd testes Tris, Geneva Lake, Coimbra, may probably be escapes. 
