Mariscus.] cyppraces (Clarke). 197 
thachilla flexuose, disarticulating below the lowest fertile flower, 
Wings elliptic, persistent, finally holding a nut; fertile glumes 
elliptic, acuminate, round-backed, 13- stri e; margin $ scarious, 
decurrent on the tiundbilla- wines upper aieids infertile, distant, 
with long, acuminate, recurved points ; ; stamens 3; nut i the length 
of the glume, trigonous, oblong-ellipsoid, slightly curved ; fle 
z as long as the bran ches. 3 linear, longish. Cy ylindrolepis, 
Boeck. in ‘Bot. onal xxxix. 73. 
Katanart Rearon: Tran svaal ; on near the Pinaars pub Nelson, 
13*! Pretoria, a ce 4179! and es das precise locality, Holwb 
arerpees found the margins of each glume united i a ylides “ghana 
the nut, ae established his genus eee on bake character. I find t 
margins the glumes decurrent on the wings of the rhachilla, poe are veloc 
wrapped eee and hold fast the ripe nut, as is tte case very ¢ 
Mariscus, where the scatteri ing of the nuts is ’ provided for by the slanrticulseion 
of the rhachilla itself, 
8. M. Cooperi (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Comer 
Fl. Afr. vy, 586); stem 82 in. long, rather stout; leaves long, { in. 
wide, flat, not flaccid ; rays of umbel up to 5 in. long, with e 
c. spikes at the end of each ray, supported by eh bracts up to 
1; in. long; rhachilla of spikelet straight; fertile glumes slightly 
an inate - upper sterile oe ecantinate into recurved points ; 
otherwise as M. rehmannianu : 
Eastern Recion: Natal, aes 3333 ! 
. e oe ure of the spikelets, with the se Os te ae reciigi 
in ikele 1 
that I fee] Uta ses Ire oe ; of Cont er’s (3333), which is witht 
the base of stem so character istic in M. rehmannianus, may not be m the 
are, itech over-ripe state of that species. 
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VI. ELEOCHARIS, R. Br. 
Spikelet of many stings imbricate glumes ; lowest 1 or 2 empty, 
Shorter than the spikelet, many suecee ding glumes 2 2-sexual perfecting 
Nuts, uppermost male orste rile.. Stamens 3or2, anterior. Style glabrous; 
base much thickened, distinguishable from apex of nut, but a ‘ 
ranches 8-2. Wut ¢ triangular, or flat (dorsally compresse 
Glabrous 3; stem with one as is csies (not rarely tie at the _— 
y 
leaves 0; u shortl one side ; 
permost sheath or very shortly proc ~ 
pogynous on bristles sa sally ‘Gi the enews species always) present, 7-3 
0 humber enting the sepals, petals and posticous stamens. 
TRIB, Speci 115, scattered over nearly the Bi world; prevalent (80 
mi in Am 
a : — “ghiapereet g (Nees). Stem stout. Spike let hardly 
wider than the Glumes subrigid : 
Stem tigations at the top. Spikelet pale w. (1) fistulosa. 
Sect. IT. ELRoGENus oer Soikolet wider than the stem. 
Glumes sedesaa le ‘ =e 
Stem terete atthe Re " Spikelet brown or chestnut ..- (2) palustris, 
