218 CYPERACER (Clarke). [ Scirpus. 
spikelets; leaves 0; spikelets scarcely more than } in. long, often 
less ; nut as 0 
KALAHARI REGION: rr a Free State, Buchanan, 87! 88! Transvaal; 
Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5615 
EasTERN Recion : Natal; near Durban, Wood, 1963! Nottingham, Buchanan! 
and without precise locality, Sihenen. 90! 
Also in Madagascar. 
Closely allied to the two preceding species. 
13. S. costatus (Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 511); glabrous; stems 
8-24 in. long, rather stout, each bearing a head of 3-12 spikelets ; 
leaves 0; es pean a ‘about 2 1 in. long, much stouter than those 
of S. ma nut as of S. setaces, Linn. C. B. Clarke in Durand 
and Schinz, pe Fi. Afr. ¥ 
Coast REGION: Queenstown Div. ; oe Baur! 
Centra Reaion : Somerset Div.; Bosch Berg, 4000 ft., MacOwan, 1919.! 
1919b! 1919¢! 
Eastern Recion: Tembuland; Isikoba River, 2000 ft., Baur, 725! 
Also in Tropical Africa, Madagascar, and Tasmania, 
This species is very closely allied to the three preceding, 
a 14. 8. venustulus (Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 479); glabrous; 
r I i 10 in 
linear, longer than the style ; nut obovoid, trigonous, smooth, finally 
nearly black, much narrowed below, but with a yellow disc of loose 
tissue at the base, not on an obpyramidal gynophore. Isolepis 
vain Nees in Linnea, ix.291; x.148. I. venustula, Kunth, Enum. 
« 193. 
Sourn AFRICA: a a ae ! a 79! Heisei ! Wallich! 
pea nai _ hie 4 Hopefield, Bachm 1605! 1606! 
Cape D r Cap eTown, Bro wn! Zils, 4813 ! ppt fe Bergivs, 
155! Uiteubage! Div, Ecklon 
This bas pigs aac the habit of a Ficinia, and the dark-red glumes with paler 
lines curving wards at the top of the sides are as those of Ficinia. It is put 
in Scirpus ber Isolepis only Revie the nut has no distinct gynophore ; the 
dileted ring of — lax tissue at its base fulls of with the nut, as the gynophore 
in Ficinia often doe 
15, 8. bulbiferus (Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 482) ; stems 2-5 in. 
long, par he oots capillary; oa up to 2 in. long, capillary ; 
spikelet hardly ;'; in wide, }-1 in. long; nut ellipsoid, narrow ed 
conically at the top; otherwise as 8. ‘venustulus, Boeck. 
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