Eleocharis. ] - CYPERACE® (Clarke). 199 
long as the nut with style-base ; wages branches 3, longish; nut small, 
obovoid, he brown, smooth ; style-base oblong- “obovoid, 2 the 
length o he nut. Kunth, Pum. it. 148; Drege b,c (not a) in. 
Drege, Pflanzen, geogr. Documente 47. EF. capensis, Nees ex Boeck. - 
Linnea, xxxvi. 467. Scirpus apes Schrad. Anal. Fl. Cap. 29, t. 2 
tig. 1. Limnochloa limosa, Nees in Linnea, x. 185, L. alee 
Krauss in Flora 1845, 759, not af Nees. Limnocharis oe ‘8a, Kunth, 
Enum. ii. 148, in ettat. Heleocharis palustris, Boeck. 1 Linnea, 
Pets 466 partly (i.e. the aus tean gy with 3-fid style), not of 
Br 
South Arrica: withont locality, Dréze, 3940 ! Pa vad Verreaua ! Pappe! 
Boivin | , Gueinzius, 21la! Ecklon and Zeyher , 31! 32 
Sarr ie Wks 
Coast Recion: Malme sbury seared 2st ! Cape Div.; Cape Tow 
Hesse, Soraliendinin Div. - ee along alow mr’ the Zonder Kinde 
River, Zeyher, 4423b! Riversdale Div v5 oy "Ge Zoetenelks — Burchell, 
6807 ; Ulteabsie Div. ; Zwartkops River, below 500 ft., Zeyher, 4423! Drege, 
Ecklon and Zeyher, 438! Alexandria Div. ; Enon, ‘ase 500 ft, Dr sage ” Bates t 
Div. ; = Port Altred, Burehell, 3802! som gha Div., Flanag gan, 903! Cath- 
BI 000 ft., Sale 
Cesta ReEGionN: Richmond Div. ;- Win i er * Veld, Drége, 826 ! 
Kast ean Reeron: Natal; Dias River, Krauss, 8u! Durban Flat, 
Dwhenes, 128! age el 
a in Madagascar, 
closely allied to the Serge E. marginulata, Steud. 
elet, 
as? It varies much 
in rl an or stem and of spik 
VIT. FIMBRISTYLIS, Vahl. 
Spikelet of many ees spirally imbricate, or (in #'. monostachya) 
siti distichous, lo nals 1 or 2 empty, many or r several succeeding glumes 
2-sexual perfecting nuts, be ee male or sterile. Hypogynous 
bristles 0. Stamens 3-2 , anterior. Style often more or less hairy, 
deciduous with ie hatin or little enlarged base ; branches 3 or 2. 
Nut tri iangular, or flat, dorsally compressed. \ 
Stolons 0; leaves all near the base of the stem; inflorescence a terminal 
ube, snipe or eianeecie or a single pee spikelet. 
RIB. Species 130, distributed over the tropical and warm -temperate parts 
“ the World, especially abundant in the tropics of 8.E. Asia and of Australia. 
This genus — from Scirpus (Sect. Isolepis, R. Br.) oaly by the style ~~ 
articulated at the ase, the transverse line separatiag it from the apex of the 
bein g visible even in aye young stage. 
Sect. I. Dicuetosryzis, Benth. prea fertile glumes spirally imbricate. 
Umbet compound or simple. Style 2-fid. 
Nut smooth. Long hairs — from the pecried 
base 
Nut ribbed! Spikelets with many angles 
Nut ribbed. Spikelets very smoothly rounded... 
Nut smooth. Cans puberulous on the back —... (4) ferruginea. 
