Scirpus. | cyPERACEm (Clarke). 217 
10. 8, dep giaan (Linn. a Plant. ed. 2,73, partly); small, glabrous, 
/ tufted, annual; stems 1-7 in. long, slender, each bearin 21-35 ike- 
lets in a small héad ; leaves 1-3 in. long, setaceous, tapally present, 
though the uppermost sheath in the Cape examples is often ci 
or very nearly so; spikelets 1—3, sessile, ;1; in. long, ovoid, ny- 
flow ered, pale, more or less marked with chestnut- red ; bract astially 
472 I. long, suberect, resembling the leaves, persister it; flower- 
clumes ovate, hardly acute, somewhat keeled, falling off successively 
from the base of the spikelet ; hypogynous bristles 0; ; stamens usually 
2; anthers linear- oblong, scarcely apiculate ; style nearly as long as 
the nut, linear, glabrous, branehes 3 as long as the style; nut 2 
the length of the glume, sessile, trigonous, ellipsoid, pyramidal at 
the top and bottom, yellow- brown, mena under a low magnifier 
to have 12-18 longitudinal ribs and to be somewhat 12—-18-gonal, 
by reason that the outermost cells of the nut are transverse- oblong, 
and superimposed in regular vertical series. totthb. Descr. et Ic. 47 
(var. B, y), t. 15, figs. 5, Oo: Sowerby, Engl. Bot. t. 1693; Boeck, in 
. Y 
setacea, R. Br. Prod. 222; Kunth, “Enum, hi. 19s. I. plebeva var. 
Schrad, Anal. Fl. Ca ‘ap. 18, t. 1, fig.6; Nees in Linnea, viii. 82, ¢. 3, 
ig. 2,2 x, Pe a . erpallescens, b, Drege, Zier ‘Phlanzengeoyr. 
Documente 55, 
Coast REGION: ele Div., Zeyher ! 
CENTRAL ReGionx : Gr aaff Reinet Div. ; prog Mountain, Reve Graaff Reinet, 
EN le > 
3800 ft., Bolus, ee ie Pee A brintha ange, 4 ge Hetil te 
KALAnart REG : Tra ; Hooge veld,  Rellihaien: Was! Mousheeet 
Berg, 7000 ft. Ralshew 4703! 
Aleo n Barope, West Asia, North and Tropical Africa, Indo China, and a var, 
in preniitt 
ra ll. S. diabolicts (Steud. in Flora, 1829, i. 147); glabrous 
thizome slender, becoming woody ; stems 6-15 in. long, each bearing 
&head of 3-9 spikelets ; leaves often as long as the stem, , in. 
ne oo in the dried examples; lower bract Lan in. ig 
sty o that the head appears lateral; spikelets ‘a in. long o 
more, niiiaad dense, chestnut-brown ; clumes broad-ovate, aeey 
acuminate, ae radiating pale red nerves (exceedingly like ‘those of 
Ficinia) ; nut as of S. setaceus, but a little larger. Boeck. in Linnea, 
XXXvi, £05. Tolpis diabolica, Sehrad. Anal. Fi. re "Migs 3 
ntarctica, Nees in Lin nmnea, Vii. bed, Viti, Oot. x: 162. Ficinia 
antay retica, Nees in Linnea, ix. 392; Kunth, Ena it, Soo. 
*chinziana, Boeck. in Abhandl. Ver. Brandenb. xxix. 47. 
rs AFkica : without locality, Zeyher! Verreauz ! pact e, 94 
ee T Reeion: Cape Div.; marshy places at the foot of Devils Mountain, 
Psa Table Mountain, Schinz / 
RAL Recon : Somerset Div. ; ; Bosch Berg, 2500 ft., MacOwan, 1743! 
12. S, macer (Boeck. in Engl. Jahrb. v. 503) ; glabrous ; rhizome 
very slender ; stems 6-15 in. long, slender, each bearing a head of 1-12 
