216 cYPERACE®E (Clarke). [ Scirpus. 
Bea 7. S. verrucosulus (Steud. in Flora, 1829, i. 145); small, glabrous, 
tufted, annual ; stems 2-4 in. long, each with 1 spikelet ; leaves 0, 
8 g, d 
flowered, pale; bract shorter ee the spikelet; hypogynous 
bristles 0; style linear, nearly as long as the nut, branches 2 as 
long as the style; nut nearly + the ae gth of the glume, obovoid 
flattened ; outermost cells minute, quadrate, becoming white, scarious 
and breaking up, thus appearing as numerous rows of Se — on the 
blac setaceus, var. y nigeMeeg Boeck. in Linnea, XXXVl. 
503, ea ete Dietr. Sp. Pl ii.98.  Tsolepis ealoniaals 
Schrad. ser Fl. ike AG, DAs A 3 ae in Linnea, viii. 79 ; 
x. 149 ; nth, Enu ii, 192. ZL. verr uculosa, Nees in Linnea, 
Vii. 495. eee Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 93. 
Soura tenacnt without oagn tn vibe Bergiu 
cae AST ogee : Cape Div e Town, 60- "100 ft., Bolus, 4900! 791 
Table Mountain, Eek fat ‘875 | Worcester Div -3 Zeyher! tos 
Wlicabeth, 2.8. C.A. Herb., 
Also in Sénegal ? 
This plant is like the common S. cernwus, Vabl., but differs in aan ies -fid 
style and flattened nut. The “ Sénegal” exar nple was seen in Stendel’s own 
erbarium. 
8. S. einer sant Lopes in Linnea, xxxvi. 485) ; plabeger ; 
rhizome thread-like; stem 8 in. long, capillary, with 1 gpikelet ; le 
2 in. long, very snag ithatet = by is _ _linear- cylindric, 
erect, dense, dirty straw-eolour ; bract hardly 3; in. long; glumes 
round- ovate ; hypogynous bristles 0; style i isee than the 
nut, branches 2 linear, longer than the style ; nut small, Jess than 
the le rach of the glume, obovoid, flattened, smooth, pale. solepts 
ptt Kunth, Enum, ii. 190 
Reeion: yer Div.; Klein Drakenstein Mountains, by the Berg 
sha below 500 ft., D ; 
No specimen at Kew. 
9. S. Burchellii (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. 
Fl. Afr. v. 618); small, glabrous, bins annual ; stems 1—2 in. long, 
each with 1 spikelet; leaves 1-1 in. long, " setaceous ; spikelet 
+ by + in., cylindric, dense, pale ; bract about : as long as the spikelet, 
but deci MOUS 5 glumes Bes boat-shaped, 7-nerved, sudde nly 
rom t the ra cateemaile: cells. 
Coast Resion: Riversdale Div.; near the Zoetemelks River, ‘Sin a walk to 
the White- clay Pit,” Burchell, 6705 ! 
The nut islike that of S. trachyspermus, Nees, but not trigonous ; the prolonged 
glumes are quite different, 
