204 cypERACE® (Clarke). [ Fimbristylis 
pletely deciduous with its base, branches 3 linear, shortish.  C. B. 
Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 649. Cyperus monostachyos, Linn. 
Mant. 180; Rottb. Deser. et Iv. 18, t. 18, fig. 3. Ali yg 
monostachya, Vahl, Enum. ii. 296; Kunth, Baum. ii. 247; 
in Tinnwa, xxxvii. 53. 
Soutn A¥Frica: without ee: Dréye, 4377! Zeyher, 1752 
Coast Reeion: Albany Div.; near Grahamstown, Maeinam 188! Komgha 
Div.; Flanagan, 914! fdgabeilis iv.; Shiloh, 3000-400: rege. 
ARI REGION: ‘Transvaal; Magalies Berg, Burke! et "without precise 
271 
nN Reoion: Transkei; between Gekau and the Bashee —— 1600- 
2000 ft., Drége. Tembuland; between a Bashee River and Morley, 1000- 
00 ft. 
2000 en Drége! Bazeia, 20 .. Baur, 64! 412! Natal; Umgeni River, 
Rehmann, 8593 ! Colenso, 34(0 ft., Kuntze, 2 ! 
pias distributed in the shunt and warm-temperate regions of the globe. 
VIII. BULBOSTYLIS, Kunth. 
Spikelet of many spirally imbricate glumes, lowest,1 or 2 empty, 
many or several succeeding glumes 2-sexu al pe erfecting nuts , uppermost 
male or sterile. Hypogynous bristles 0. Stamens 3-2, anterior. 
Style glabrous, linear, pane with its slightly enlarged base, leaving 
a dark-coloured ulton o the nut; sea 3 or 2, linear. Nut 
triangular or flat (do vanily compressed), obovoid, very obtuse or 
truncate, pale till quite ripe, the Ee lle SAE button finally falling 
off, 
Stolons 0; leaves all near the base of the stem, very narrow, often hairy, near 4 
stapes ciliate hairy in the mouth of the sheaths ; inflorescence a termi nal umbe 
simple mpound, or a single terminal spikelet; flower-glumes near Ae always 
pact 
B. Species 130; in all tropical and warm-temperate regions, eapecialy 
prose in Africa and America, one species reaching north to Canada. [See 
also Fin.bristylis exilis. | 
Stem with 1 (or 1-2) spik 
Sty she ene 2; ear ‘early glabrous : 
Nut smooth : eS .. (1) humilis. 
Nut tlongivuinally striate a ve ... (2) striatella 
as Soe gs phat plant hairy Raa previculmis. 
Stem with ae nse hez me of several spikelets ; style. 
prose 
Stem ieee ly and densely hairy at ee top ; Later 
lets eat: ; Sones sheaths fine woolly ; jiead 1, (4) filamentosa. 
Stem glabrous ; leaf-sheaths hardly ciliate even ee 
their throats : 
Lea ongish; flower-glumes very obtuse ; : 
wasule cres ner G scheenoides. 
eaves longish ; fo ewer. -glummes neumninate a (OEe ee 
ves hardly any; m t a 
si wih “s (or 1-4) munbetinis, ey of spike let 3 leat 
is with tid white hairs, often ee beds 
rot in ag throat 
Hea with long white hairs; nut smooth, not . 
otis Sage i ve A Oe 
