Bulbostylis. ] CYPERACE® (Clarke). 207 
long, slender, glabrous at the top, l-headed; leaves 1-2 the length 
of th ty) 
nearly glabrous, spikelets 3-5, 1 by + in., very obtuse, chestnut- 
ovate, obtuse, almost truncate, narrowly white margined at the almost 
fimbriate tip ; keel hardly reaching the tip; stamens 3; anthers 
linear-oblong, rather large, not crested ; style linear, shorter than the 
young ovary, branches 3 linear, longish ; style-base bulbous, exactly 
of young Bulbostylis; nut unknown. OC. B. Clarke in Durand and 
Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 616 partly. Isolepis scheenoides, Steud. 
he Pl. Glum.ii. 100. Scirpus schwenoides, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 
(20, 
Region: King Williamstown Div.; between the Yellowwood River 
and Zandplaat, 1000-2000 ft., Drage. Stockenstrom Div.; Kat Berg, 4000-5000 
ft., Drdge, 3936 ! 
497 | ae Region: Aliwal North Div.; Witte Bergen, 7000-8000 ft., Drége, 
sir J. D. Hooker first separated the Tropical African Schenus ? erraticus with 
hesitation, and then united it specifically ; it has not the very obtuse glumes of 
B. scheenotdes 
6. B. scleropus (C. B. Clarke); nearly glabrous, except the 
flower-glumes ; stems tufted; enclosed by + in. broad, harsh, 
chestnut-black, striate leaf-sheaths, 10-16 in. long, glabrous at the 
top, 1-headed ; leaves often 2 the length of the stem, narrowly linear, 
channelled, minutely scabrous on the edges, without long white 
ars; spikelets 6-10, crowded in 1 head, 2 by 2 in, cylindric- 
linear-oblong, not crested; nut obovoid, trigonous, pale, finally 
brown, obscurely transversely lineolate ; style linear, longer than 
nut, deciduous, leaving a dark-coloured button on the nut, branches 
near, as long as the style. B. schenoides, C. B. Clarke in 
Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 616 partly. 
Katanart Region: Transvaal; Apies River, Burke! 
EASTERN Rxcion: Tembuland, Bazeia, 2000 ft., Baur, 285! 
7. B. parvinux (C. B. Clarke); nearly glabrous, except the flower- 
glumes; stem 20 in. long, slender, 1-headed, glabrous at the top, 
most leafless, the glabrous, pale-brown, weak leaf-sheaths produced 
vn one side about 1 in., not green; head 1 in. in diam., dense, pale- 
Town, the numerous spikelets spreading on all sides, concealing the 
Small bracts; spikelets nearly 1 b 1 in. 
2 te, subacute, minutely pubescent ; keel hardly excurrent ; stamens 
: linear-oblong, not crested; nut minute, hardly 4 
the length of the glume, obovoid, round-trigonous i 
re) 
iy ellow-brown, smooth, not, or most obscurely, lineolate ; style linear, 
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