210 cypmrAce® (Clarke). [ Bulbostylis. 
os %s ee ‘3 ; umbels somewhat lax, often compound with secondary 
r in. long; spikelets solitary or paired; otherwise as B. 
cinnamomea 
EASTERN ‘hearse: Natal; Inanda, Wood, 1576! 
14. B. capillaris (Kunth, Enum. ii, 211, ef. 205) 5 ; annual ; stems 
tufted, 3-15 in. long, setaceous, glabrous ; leaves 2 2 the length ‘of the 
stem, sctaceous, nearly gla brous . leaf-sheaths more or less long, 
white-hairy in their throat ; umbel simple or compound, or reduced 
: mhignea 1 
to one spikel 8 in. in diam.; bracts shorter than the umbel ; 
spikelets all or oo a scarce ely 2 in. long, chestnut-brown ; 
glumes ovate, acute, most minutely pubescent, or glabrous; keel 
usually green achat: a often 2; anthers not aristate ; 
nut less than } the length of the glume, obovoid, obtuse, pale-brown, 
scarcely transversely undulate ; ; style slender, glabrous, longer than 
the nut, ge nap leaving a black-red tubercle on the nut, branches 
3; longer than the style. C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. sie 
i. 652. Bieipws capillaris, Linn. Sp. Plant. ed. 2, 73; Boeck. 4 
Foes, xxxvl. 759. Isolepis capillaris, Roem. and Schultes, Syst. 
Veg. i. 118; Mant. ii. 68, 533. 
EASTERN RecGion : Pondoland, 4500-7200 ft., Sutherland ! 
Abundant in the warm regions of both hemispheres. 
15. B. ge oan (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. 
Fl. Afr. 612); stems tufted closely on a woody rhizome, very 
slender, phew leaf-sheaths eee white-hairy in the 
throat ; spikelets when in flower about + in. long, hardly different 
from thos e of B. sacs lsagptots but in fruit Be examples from different 
localities) "eine to Lin. (sometimes nearly } in.) long ; alae 
as B. capillaris. Fimbri istylis Burchellit, Ficalho and Hiern 2 
Trans, Linn. Soe. ser. 2, i. 28, %. 6 B, fig. 7-15. F. mre a 
Boeck. in Linnea, Xxxvii. 27 partly. 
HARI — : Griqualand West; Kli ontein, Burchell, 2151; 
Be ete ale nd ; Kosi ‘Montage n, Burehll, aaa 25 a Sioned s Pretoria Div 
velo above = Apies Riy es Rehinann, 4830! Potchefstroom, by the Mooi River, 
els 
Also in South Tropical A‘rica, 
IX. SCIRPUS, Linn. 
empty, many or fiend succee ace es perfecting ne 
f Se diotcus), uppermost male or ie Hypogynous bristles 
r 2-6, und d. Stamens 3-2, anterior. Sti yle glabrous, linear, 
passing gradually into the nut (except in Sc. Hystriz and oe 
lepis where it is very short and deciduous); branches 3 or 2, linear. 
