202 CYPERACE (Clarke). [Fimbristylis 
glabrous ; , az in. broad, hairy or 
rarely glabrate ; ee always ned vunbe of 3-14 pedicelled 
spikelets ; ; bracts 4-3, about as long as the umbel ; spikelets }—3 by 
in., 10—20- flowered ; glumes boat-shaped, cae acute, chestnut- 
brows, puberulous ; keel reen, excurrent in a point ; stamens 3-2 
; nut rather large, 
Yi hispidula, Kent, Enum. ii. 297, Krauss in Flora, 18 15, 757 
Boeck. in Linn xxxvil. 27. Scirpus hispidulus, Vahl, ‘Enu 
ii. 276. Bisneshss Iirt Thunb. in Hojm. Phytogr. Blaett. 1 . 6, an nd 
Ll. Cap. edit. Schult. 100; aoe Enum, i. 106. Chetospora 
distachya, Nees in ee 
Soutu AFrica: without locality, =. 4372 
KALAHARI ReGion: Kalahari, Schinz, 371! joer near Klerks-dorp, 
4000 ft., AfcLea in Herb. Bolus, "6018 ! 
EastERN Reeion: Tra ai banks of the ee River, below 1000 ft., 
oe 4 a ores near the Umlaas River, Krauss, 1 Sydenham, near D Durban, ; 
Wood, 1956! and without ei locality, Sethi 344! Kuntze, 23! 
Fallen, aatark di 490! 
Common throughout Africa and Dae eee: rare in Tropical America. 
This species is sae connecting-link between Fimbristylis and Bulbostylis 
ry stem is in Bulbostylis, ver rare in Panbrtatylia the spikelets, 
with hairy glumes, secede te yi _ of Bulbostylis. Itd s from Bulbostylis m 
that the seue is somewhat persistent; and, when it does fall, it takes the whole 
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style-base, and does vig leave pehiad ‘the dark-coloured button so conspicuous on 
the nut of Bulbostyli 
oo 6. F. eas (Link, Hort. Berol. 1827, i. 292); glabrous; 
stems tufted on a very short, or obsolete, rhizome, 6—24 in. long, 
ten much flattened at the top; leaves often 4-8 by + in., obtuse; 
umbel with 6-180 tra was aise bracts 2, shorter than 
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trigonous, straw-coloured, slenderly longitudinally ribbed because the 
transversely oblong cells are in vertical series. Kunth, Enum. ii. 
228; C.B. oe in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 646. F. prernens 
var. a Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 38. Sci irpus complanatus, Retz. 
Obs. v. 14, Lrie helostylis complanata, Nees in Linnwa, x. 146. 
7 Var. 8, kraussiana (C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 646); stems 
slenderer, often perce at all flattened at the apex; umbel more co Jom pac ct, of 
F. kraussiana, Hochst. ex Krauss in Flora, 1845, 757. 
/~ Yar. 7; consan guinea (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. 
v. 6C 3) ; spikelets often in clusters of 2-5 on the ultimate rays of the umbel. 
F, sala ii Kunth, Enum, ii, 228; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 36. 
Soutn AFRICA: without Pia d Drége, 6448! Var. y, Drége, 4414! 4418! 
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Coa EGION : Ko mat Div., 2000 ft., Flanagan, 960! Var. y, Uitenhage 
Div.; V Stadens Hoogte, MacOw van, 13854! 1354b! Alexandria Div. 5 
between Hoff ns Kloof and Drie Fontein, retest ft., Drege! Al 
Div. ; onrtnners riot 1800 ft., MacOwan, 1852! 
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