Scirpus. ] CYPERACE® (Clarke). 219 
Coast Recion: Cape Div.; Sand-dunes near Cape Town, Zeyher, 1777 
partly ! 
Zeyher 1777, contains also S. venustulus be? S. Saviit mixed. In the 
tangled Capiliney roots of S. bulbiferus are included (both in mgt ws Berlin 
Herbaria) bulbils 2 in. long, ellipsoid, shining cat these 
specimen of 1777 are not attached to ~ Sci — The ‘bu Ibils in tba "Berlin 
maaan = 1777 look the same, and do appear to be Cy peracesus, S. bulbi- 
erus, therefore, if distinct from 0: eek must stand on its slenderness, 
Gade. meee and narrow nut. 
16. S. tenuis Se aee in pie 1829, i, Beil. 12); glabrous, slender, 
annual ; stems tufted, 2-4 i n. long, capillary, w with 1 
the length of the stem, capillary ; spikelet + by ;'; in., narrow- 
eylindrie, "10-15- flowered ; bracts 0, i.e. lowest alume, though usually 
empty, hardly different from the others ; flower- -glumes broad-elliptie, 
obtuse, not keeled, broadly green on “the back, marked with red 
towards the edges ; Margins narrowly scarious; stamens often 2; 
style linear, shorter than the nut, branches 3 an long as the style ; 
nut sessile, oblong, slightly wider at the top, trigonous, black, but 
covered with one layer of marcescent white glistening subpapillose 
cells in regular lines. Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 478, not of Willd. 
sae tenuis, Schrad. Anal. Fl. Cap. 15; Nees in Linnea, vill. 79 ; 
x. 148; Kunth, Enum, ii. 190. I. pusilla, Kunth, Enum. ii. 190. 
I. atro-pur ‘purea, Nees in Linnea, vii. 495 ; not of Roem. et Schult, 
OUTH AFRICA: ! cey, 3 
Coast ote Worsentee Dae sor gopen cathy 3000-4000 ft., 
Drége, 7413! 
va 17. §, ringing Sas Enum. ii, 245); glabrous, small, tufted, 
“nual; stems 2-7 in. long, slender, with 3-1 (rar rely 4 4) spikelets ; 
leaves setaceous, 13 in, long, usually much shorter than the stem ; 
spikelets tot in. long, ovoid, 6-20-flowered, pale or chestnut-red, 
Sometimes elongated, or with a cylindric sterile top; lowest glume 
often bract- like, suberect, longer than the spikelet which then appears 
lateral; glumes ovate, har ‘dly ‘keeled or acute ; hypogynous bristles 0 ; 
stamens 32 ; anthers not crested ; style linear, glabrous, ardly 
80 long as the nut, branches 3 linear, longer than the style ; nut 
ined. 2 the length of the glume, obovoid, obtuse, trigonous, smooth, 
iW, becoming on the ripe nut inflated, white, and scarious (so that 
the nut is described sub-tubercular white), finally breaking up in their 
Centres (when the nut is described as porose). S. Savit, Sebast. et 
faurt, Prod. Fl. Rom. 22: ; Sowerby, Engl. Bot. Suppl. t. 2782. 
S. selaceus, Lies. - herb. propr. et Ment. $21 (not Sp. Plant. oo. 2, ge ; 
B partly, ae y. he olepis a dy R. Br. et od. 22 2: cf. Schad Anal 
eg. ii. Vege 62 ; Schrad. Anal. Fi Cav. 16 in note, $15 “fg. 2. ; 
L py a, Kunth, Hee 1 Lek... L, shlorestachs ya, Nees in Linnea, 
ix. 201; 3 x. 149. I. microcarpa, Nees in Linnea, x. 150; Kunth, 
Enum, ii, 214, J. paces Kunth, poi ii, 193. 
