fee Fi. 
Seirpus.] CYPERACE® (Clarke). 221 
tse Arrica: without locality, Thunberg; Zeyher, 345! Wallich! Petit 
Thowar . “TC ee : 
Font REGIon: Cape gs 3; Table baie Ecklon, 878! Alexandria 
Div.; hcehbang Hottimanns Kloof and ~~ Fontei 1000-2000 TE, Drege, 7410! 
Alban Phasing ta ds Pusat 584! 
Caienas, Ree GION: Somerset Div. ; sg i places on the summit of Bosch Berg, 
; 742! 
VESTERN REGION : Little Namaqual: and; Kamies Bergen, near Ezels Fontein 
and at Rood — , 3500- 4000 tt., Drége, 2 163 ! : 
E Easvern Kee : Natal; Inanda, Wood, 227! Umzeni River, Rehmann, 
453 ! 
This appears to creep on mud or on the margin of water. The whole plant, 
and ma spikelets, are blacker than S. cernur 
20. S. karroicus (C. B. Clarke in Durand and aa Conspect. 
Fl. Afr. v. 624); glabrous, small, tufted, annual; stems 3in. long, 
ee Nie 1-3 spikelets ; loaves hardly 2 = in een setaceous ; 
spikelet in. ass ovoid, 6-1 2- acne straw- coloured ; ulewens 
curved sich: nut lest than half the Shiels of the fret trigonous, 
ellipsoid, pyramidal at both ends sessile, black, smooth ‘(an less 
highly magnified) ; outermost cells longitudinally vrei: so that the 
aut oe magnified) has faint Bae thank wavy line 
Cen REGIon: Worcester near Constable, mr so in Herd. 
Bolus, S811! Karioo; Witte Berg, Past Krantz, Paieaake! 2882 ! 
This resembles §. cer nuus, Vi _s the eurved points of the glume sticking out 
si the spikelets on all sides give it a different appearance; the structure of the 
8 quite diverse from that of S. Ears 
New, in x eile x; 57: Kunth, Enum. ii. 
Sour Arrica: without locality, Dréje ! Ecklon and Bei 91! 
No specimen in the Kew Herbarium. 
This differs from 8. cernuus, Vahl, by want of leaves ; while the plant is too 
Wa 
Strong for g. venustulus, nor has it the Ficinia-like habit and glumes of 8. 
venustulus, 
brags = ages (C. B. Clarke in yee ane es Ht 
33); small, glabrous, annual ; stem 1-31 ong 
Setaceous, ae Bes spikelets ; leaf hardly } in. on setaceous, spike- 
let fin. long, oblong-ellipsoid, many-flowered ; bract shorter i the 
‘plkelet ; ; glumes reli striate, ak elie ve hehe 3-tid ; nut + the 
length of the 
~ Cernuus pare sacks ysperma, aes 3s in a Tita 2 a 152 ; Kunth, 
Enum. ii. . Scirpus setaceus, Boeck: in Linnea, xxxvi. 501, so far 
“ regards syn. Isolepis trach) ycarpa, Boeck. (error for trachysperma). 
