Fimbristylis.] cypEerace® (Clarke), 293 
= ors NARI tne Var. B, Orange Free State, rT 142! Transvaal ; 
Pretoria, Rehmann, 4771! Magalies Berg, E.S.C.A. Herb., 309! and wit! rout 
Se Toaity. Retina a , 5619! 
Kast ondoland, Bachmann, 108! Natal ; Umzinyati, 1200 ft., 
Wood, 1399! Dur ee ‘Botante ‘Garde ae Wood, cea Durban Flats, Wood, 
4003 ! a Buchanan, 132! Var. B, Na marsh near the Umlaas 
River, Kva 2 180! Nottingham, vcdlclige n, rs — without precise ie ality, 
ar ee ee 343! Rehmann, 8103! 8604! 
a ur Var. y, Tembulan 6 
beeen the Bushee River and ork ey, 1000-2000 ft., Drége. Pondoianrl 
hear the mouth = ra Uuntatkhea River, Drége. Natal, Gueinaius, 2 215! 
Found throughout the tropical nee warm-temperature regions of the obese 
The character « solitary ’? or “clustered” spikelets has been used as of “ sec- 
tional ” in Fimbristylis ; and Kunth therefore put — wa baa F. Soe 
ni maid shécien ut the character is not of specific value s so the acter 
oe en from the flattening of the top of stem. Boeckeler, perhaps righty “anes 
ne Whole series of Lage ae ev F. autumnalis, Roem. et i — e. Scirpus 
Miele: Linn.). Wh species, or varieties, are so c ae toaster it. is 
ot possible to Site the favcthednn except as matter of opinio 
7. F. obtnsifolia (Kunth, woe ii. 240); glabrous, rigid ; 
thizome short, thick, woody; stems 4-18 in. long; leaves many, 
usually ee 4 foi length of the es, ~J5—} in. bro ad, hard, obtuse ; 
wnbel 1-3 jy | aig , Simple or compound, or condensed into one 
vied bracts 3 3-2 , lowest 3-22 in 
2 
1 long, shorter or longer than the 
Sai el, rigid, similar to the heel spikelets usually clustered, 2 in. 
ongs ellipsoid, pale, dense ; glumes ovate, obtuse ; style nearly as long 
as the nut, glabrous, branches 3 (at least in the lower flowers), as long 
te the style ; nut hardly 3 the length of the glume, obovoid, ro ond. 
trigonous, dark- coloured, not longitudinally + ibbed. F. glom erata, 
on in tinned, xxxvii. 47 partly. pi ae Biche, Beauv. 
{es Owar. ii 38, ¢ . 81, fig. 1. Trichelostylis obtusifolia, Nees in 
1X, 250. 
e 
River RN ReGion : Pondoland ; between the Umtentu River and Umzim} culu 
Ku cd a 909 ft., Drége, 4415 ! Natal, Rehmann, 8692! Delagoa Bay 
b ao Africa, the Mascarene Islands, aud America; near salt or 
ak 
x. monostachya (Hassk. Pl. Jav. Rar. 61) ; 5 glabrous ; stems 
1 ° very short woody rhizome, 3-11 in. long, slender ; 
eaves often 2 the length of the stem, q's in. broad; spikelet 1 
(rarely 2 op "3 + by 1 in, and few-flowered, or in fruit 1 in. long 
ane many-fow vered ; bract t subereet, rarel _mauch tbat the 
- the rhachilla ; glumes boat-shaped, onic, without nerves ak 
vse formin cel, minutely mucronate; stamens 3; anthers 
: 8 kee 
oblong-linear, muticous ; nut rather large, less than } the length of 
ah, brown, without striations, but often minutely tubereled ; 
yle longer than the nut, hairy, slightly thickened at the base, com- 
