198 CYPERACE® (Clarke). [ Eleocharis. 
Sect. III. Eu-Exeocnaris. Spkelet wider than the stem. 
Glumes membranous. Style 8-fid : 
Stem terete at the top. Spikelet brown “ie .. (3) limosa. 
. E. fistulosa (Link, Jahrb. iii. 78 Obs.); es RE stem 1-3 ft. 
acutely triquetrous at the top; spikelet nearly 1 1 in., 
hs lar teil broader than the stem, pale-coloured ; glumes oe obtuse, 
without keel, with numerous fine lines on the back ; bristles 6 (1.¢ 
3 sepals, 3 petals), as long as the nut, linear, retrorse- scabrous, rusty- 
red ; style 3-fid, or Sathetines according to authors 2-fid; nut } as 
long-as the clume, obovoid, trigonous with the anticous ae flattened, 
longitutinaly striate euniiie: e (i.e. the external cells are arranged 
4-30 vertical series) ; style-base scarcely + the joel of the nut, 
ae C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Tnd. vi. 626. cirpus 
fistulosus, Putret in Lam. Encyc. vi. 749. Heleocharis fistulosa, 
ee: in Linnwa, xxxvi. 472 
Ast ReerIon: os Div.; Kei River, Flanagan, 982! No South 
dice specimen at Ke 
Also in Tropica ine Asia and Austral 
Boeckeler unites with this species EZ. mutata, R.Br., abundant in Tropical 
America; and which aoe differs very slightly. If this view be taken the 
distribution area is wi 
2. E. palustris (R. Br. Prod. 224 in note); stems 4-20 in. long, 
on a creeping rhizome, usually distant, terete; spikelet 1-3 by 
chestnut, with scarious margins; bristles 6 or often fewer, as long 
as the nut; style-branches 2, longish ; nut small, obovoid, dorsally 
B. Clarke in Journ. Bot, 1887, 267, and in Hook. f. Ft. 
Brit. Ind. vi. 628. KE. limosa a (not b, c) Drege, Pflanzengeog”. 
Documente 181. E. dregeana, Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 78. Seirp 
palustris, Linn. Sp. Plant. ed.2, 70 partly. Heleocharis palustris, 
Lindl. Syn. Brit. Fl. 280; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 466 partly, te. 
excluding all examples with 3- cet style, Limnoehloa capensis, Nees 
in Linnea, x. 185; not of Krau 
Sourn Arrica: ——— oe ie 4376! Verreaux 
Coast rake Komgha -3 between Zandplaat oe Komgha, 2090- 
the length of the nut. Nees in Linnea, vii. 509 ; Kunth. Enum. 
ii. 147 
CENTRAL eek Somerset Div.; Bosch Berg, 3000 ft., MacOwan, 1741: 
Burchell, 3046 ! Richmond Div. ; vieinity of Sty i era — r Richmond, 4009- 
5000 ft., Drege! aon North Div. n, 1 
Katanari REG : Griqualand West ; redid Or ach, 0a! 
Distributed mates the World except Australia; rare in tropical regions. 
7 3. E. ogy (Schultes in Roem. et Gace Syst. ii. Mant. 87) ; 
stems 1-2 ft. long, clustered ona short woody rhizome, terete; 
spikelet 1-1 by {—} in., cylindrie or aa long-conic, dense 5 
glumes obtuse, without keel, brown with scarious margins ; bristles 
6-5 (ie. 3 sepals, 3-2 petals), linear, retrorsely seabrous, brown, 2 
tiny See Bae eek go Deer Y ee 
