208 CYPERACEX (Clarke). [ Bulbostylis. 
The spikelets greatly resemble those of B. cinnamomes A which differs 
in having ciliate-hairy leaf-sheaths, a coe much larger n 
8. B. collina (Kunth, Enum. ii. ~ cf, 205); rhizome short, 
woody ; re closely tufted, 4-10 in. long, glabrous at the top, 
l-headed ; leaves numerous, short, La the length of the stem. 
setaceous, ‘hairy ; leaf-sheaths with jong white hair in their throats ; 
head 2 in. in diam., of 5-12 spikelets, more or less ears with long 
white. hair ; bracts scarcely longer than the head; spikelets 4 by } 
oblong- cylindric, hice ned brown ; glumes elliptic- oe minutely 
pubescent, and o also with long white hairs; keel g en wrngetip cd 
excurrent ; mci ns ae anthers linea oblong, eer eee ; nut 2 the 
length of the glume, rather broadly obovoid trigonous, pale, ultimately 
brown, smooth, not ‘transversely wavy lineolate (outermost cells being 
subquadrate) ; ” style linear, about as long as the nut, glabrous, 
mye ies leaving a small dark-coloured tuberee on the nut, branches 
3 linear, about as long as a style. B. Clarke in Durand and 
Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. 613 par ay gers or poe in 
Linnea, ix. 292. Tr chdout ylis contexta, Nees in Linn 4 
— ylis wee ey Kunth, Enum. ii. 245, Isolepis aed, "Steud. 
n. Pl. Glum. ii. 101. Scirpus collinus, Boeck. in Linnea, XxXvi. 
16. 
Coast Recion: Uitenhage Div., Zeyher ! Sager Div. ; Addo, 1000-200! 
ft., Drive, 2037! Albany Div.; Blue Krantz, Burchell, 3629! Gral cmon 
2000 ft., MacOwan, 1972! near the Bushman raid below 1000 
pet Div. ; ; between Blue Krantz and Kaffir Drift Military Post, “Burchell, 
Ks sna ae REGION: Transvaal; hills above the Apies River, Rehmann, 4329! 
EGION : Swaziland ; Havelock Concession, 4000 ft. | Saltmar she ™m 
Herb. “Gain, 1021b! 
n South pares Africa ? 
There ure numerous very closely allied species. 2B. collina is here a 
from Drége’s specimens in Herb. Kew, distributed as “ Isolepis collina, Kth. 
and the ee cited are only those in Herb. Kew which exactly match i dn, 
If the species taken in a wider ree as in Durand and Schinz, Conspect 
Fl. Afr. v. 613, its distribution will be w 
9. B. cardiocarpa (C. B. Clarke in Darand and Schinz, Conspect. 
t much less than in B. collina; heads and flower-glumes without 
long white hair; spikelets rather narrowly lanceolate, acute; nut 
narrower than that of B. collina; otherwise as B. collina. 
Pimbristylis aaa as Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, ii. 154; 
not of FP. Mueller 
Eastern Region : Tembuland ; Cofimvaba, 2500 ft., Bawr, 478! 479! 
Also in South Tropical Africa. 
Pee , by made a var, of B, sara but the two plants do not match ; in 
collina heads are subovoid ; cardiocarpa ry lanceolate separate tips 
of the reeds stick anit pth alatoty from the hea 
B. Burkei (C. B. Clarke); heads less dense than those of 
0. y: ] 
B. collina, with hardly any long white hair; nut oblong, pear-sha ed, 
somewhat narrowed at the top, yellow-brown, transversely lineolate, 
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