194 CYPERACES (Clarke). { Mariscus. 
Drége! Tulbagh Div. ; near aby Burchett, 1027! Uitenhage Div.; Zwa 
ops River, Pappe! Var. B, Cape Div. Table Mountain, Ecklon, 10 5! prima 
215! Simons Bay, MacGillivray, 409! “Ohana Div.; Ecklon and Zeyher, 
between polis Por 
x 
A Di : : ] 
Mosse 1 Ba ay Div  Geat Vals River. Burchell, 6530! Bathurst Div.; near Port 
Alfred, Burchell, 3992! Var. 8, Swellendam Div.; Buffeljagts River, @il/! 
17. M. elatior (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspeet. Fl. 
Afr. v. 587); stem triquetrous at the top; spikes large, dense, com- 
pound ; spikelets spreading, lower deflexed ; glumes distant, micro- 
scopically mucronate; otherwise as M. riparius. » Cyperus elatior, 
. " 2 
Linnea, XXxXvi. C. solidus, a elatior, rhe hy 
sey i ngestus, var. Nees in Linnea, x. 137, but 
not C, ‘multiceps, Link (according to site ¥. 
Soutu AFrRica: without locality, R. Bro 
Coast Region: Paarl Div.; Paarl Mountai ins, 2000-3000 ft., Drége, 4410! 
EastERN ReGion: fat Durban Flat, Buchanan, rot and ied precise 
locality, Buchanan, 69! 1 
18. M. involutus (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Con 
Fl. Afr, v. 589); glabrous; rhizome (seen) 2 in. ong ontal, 
igonous at the ee Ste 
4 the length of the stem, 11 in. broad, transversely lineolate, in 
dried examples involute into a tube, many-striate, without keel; 
of close spikes at the apex of each; spikelets 1 by 4 in., com- 
pressed, hard, dull chestnut-red, maturing about 10 nuts; glume 
sir obtuse, many-striate ; keel obscure, paler, hardly excurrent ; 
8 the length of the glume, trigonous, narrow-oblong ; style not 
re ie len ngt ” of the nut, branches 3 linear, shortly exserted from 
the glume. 
Pha st Region: Uitenhage Div.; Van Stadens River, Ecklon and Zeyher; 
oo 2084! King Williamstown Div.; Toise River Station, 3500 ft., 
Kin 276 
ae longer spikelets, often maturing nuts, separate this from the 
reas species ; the inflorescence, though Pt ere: does not in essence 
19. M. Grantii.(C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 
Afr. v. 588) ; spikes } in. in diam., ovoid, dense, ferruginous brown. 
peduneled in a compound umbel; spikelets spreading, lower de- 
flexed ; otherwise as M. riparius, Schrad. var. y trisumbellata. 
Eastern ReGion: Natal, Grant ! Cooper, 3332! 
Flowered in Kew meas May, 1890. 
This might be arranged as a var. ne 
deflexed Pome give ita ‘a different pl = riparia, alow ae: 
20. M. Owani (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Gonanentd Fi. 
Afr. v. 590) ; umbel once-eompound or imperfectly twice-compoun nd ; ’ 
spikes loose ; spikelets spreading or deflexed; otherwise as 
riparius and M. Grantii. Cyperus ligularis, Thunb. Prod. 18; Fi 
