206 CYPERACE® (Clarke). (Bulbostylis. 
KabLanart REGION: Orange Free State; rocks near Harrismith, 5000 ft., 
Wood, ed with 4762 
EAstenn REGION : ae Buchanan, 86! Cooper, 3364! 
Also in “Abe ssinia. 
This species is usu: tly sity (up to 8-Gin. high) and more peifectly glabrous 
than B. humilis; but it has spikelets added similarly am ong the bases at we 
stems . is so oexceetingty ike. humilis that I do not think t 
able except by the 1 ‘f 1ese two species in their 2-fid style and seed 
habit differ from she uae genus Bulbostylis 
B. ah a (Kunth, Enum. ii. 207, ef. ah hairy, tufted, 
annual ; ; stem 1-21 in. long, slender, hairy, carrying | spikelet ; basal 
spikelets ys eg geet as in the two preceding pi : Jeaves 
as long as the stem, setaceous; spikelets 1—-} about 
sg 
Pitonemds bracts about as long as the spikelet ; ‘lames ovate- 
ac e 
mucro; style hardly as long as the nut, linear, glabrous, branches 
linear, longish; nut 2 the length of the glume (mucro included), 
subequa ip soe shovald. yellow-brown, not striate, slightly verru- 
€ ercle or button (left on nut by the deciduous style) ee | 
darker in colour than the nut. Lsulepis breviculmis, Steud. weed 
Glum. ii. 100. Scirpus breviculmis, Boeck. in Linnwa, xxxvi. 
CentraL ReGion: Aliwal North Div.; between Aliwal North (Buffel oe 
and the Kraai River, 4500-3(00 ft., Dréye, 83947! Herb. Berlin and Delessert. 
No specimen at Kew. 
B. filamentosa (Kunth, Enum. ii. 210, cf. 205) ; stem densely 
tufted, 1 ft. long, ved slender, minutely densely hairy at the top 
1-headed ; leaves early as long as the stem, setaceous, hairy ; 
sheaths with long, wie thin hairs ; head 3 to 4 in. in diam., dense 
with many small ride chestnut-brown ; bracts 2 to } in. Jong, 
setaceous ; spikelets 1 by 51, in., 6-10-flowered ; elumes boat-shaped, 
ovate, minutely hairy, without. long white hair ; kee] 3-1-nerved, 
with a small linear crest; nut 2 the length of the glume, broadly 
obovoid, white, finally pale seeeic obseur rely meine! wavy 
exes Contes to the ee longitudinal oo cells aie as 
Hee 23 Clarke in Dur ze and Sites Conspect. F1. A fr. v. G1 
Seirpus filamentosus, Vall, Enum. ii. 262 ; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 
747, excluding American ‘(% and plants. Isolepis filamentos a, 
Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veg. ii. 113. 
KALAHARI REGION: ‘Transvaal ; Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5611! 5617! 
Also found in West Tropical Africa from Sierra Leone to Angola. 
In Rehmann’s examples the nut is — than i in the Niger typical ex xamples, 
and without t transverse wavy lineolatic being nearly quadrate. 
x 5. B. schenoides (Kunth, ener ii. 208, cf. 205); nearly g platzotes 
‘ except the flower glumes; rhizome woody; stems approximate, 4-10 in 
