Scirpus. | CYPERACEE® (Clarke). 223 
iv 26. S. expallescens (Boeck. in Linnwa, xxxvi. 509) ; seine 
rather slender ; rhizome very slender, pale, descending ; stems appro 
overtopping the inflorescence ; glumes be hag obtuse ; sacar ous 
bristles 0 ; style-branches 3; nut 1 the length of the ae ellipsoid, 
trigonous, smooth. Isolepis expallescens, Kunth, Enum. ii. 196. 
Nt N: Victoria West Div.; Nieuw Veld, between the Brak 
River ¢ nt eng 3090-4000. Pg Drege, 7415! Graaff Baie Div.; Sneeuw 
Berg Hanne, 4000- 5000 ft., Dré 
we 27. S. antarcticus (Linn. an oe my not of Thunb.) ; ponte. 
il at stem 5-10 in. long in the type form of Lin nne 
feontscr'y 38) hag leaves often ie e lengt of the fae 
glumes often 3-ranked or the tae nearly 2-ranked, rigid, keeled, 
ovate, tip triangular or amet pointed, back curved, each side with 
4-6 curved lines, yellow, with a larger or smaller chestnut- red patch 
hear the top; hypogynous bristles 0; stamens 3, anthers linear- 
oblong, scarcely apiculate ; nut 3 the length of the ‘glume, ellipsoid, 
than the inflorescence ; ee 2 ny ry in., po not terete ; 
A f ulat 
cells short, longitudinal-oblong, more or less inflated ; style linear, 
nearly as long as the nut, branches 3 longer than the style. 
S, EC oratgt Spreng. Syst. i. 212; Steud. in : Flora, 1839, 3. 119; 
n Linnea, xxxvi. 693. S. setaceux, Thunb. Prod. 17; 
i, Cap. ed, Schult. 95. 8S. setaceus vur. Steud. in Flora, 1829, i. 
145 partly. 8. ficiniefornvis, Bueck. ex C. B. Clarke in Durand and 
‘chine, Conspect. Fl, Afr. v. 611. Isolepis beryiana, Schultes in Roem. 
4 pci Syst. Veg. ii. Mant. 532; Nees in Linnwa, vii. 500; viii. 
291; Kunth, Enum. ii. 194; Boeck. in Flora, 1860, 33. 
I. ae Neesi in Linnea, vii. 499, viii. 80, in Obs. t. 3, fig. 2b; 
x. 152 
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iy minutus, Roth, Nov ye $a fe av Linna Vii 5 3. 
rothianus, Roem. et Sellt S2 cee Veg. ii. Mant. 95; Kunth, 
Batt ii. 25 ; ef. Boeck. in Flora, 1860, 33. Ficinia antarctica, 
Drege in Linnea, xx. 249. 
hah Te without locality, R. pdeigege'd Drége, 1599! 7418! 61 able 
and Z, 6! 37! Harvey, 344! 348! 373! 376! MacGillivray, 426 _ eek ‘on 
meee $9 50! Belen. 912! 17081 Bolus, 5272! Mund and Maire! 
bi ape EGION; Clanwilliam Div.; Ebenezer, below 100 ft., Drege! noe 
Ecklon ear Cape Town, Thunbe erg, arom, 190! Pappe! Table Mountain, 
ae: a gardens and roadsides, Ecklon, 8791! Wynberg Sand Flats, Bolus 
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