eta ala cee scenes 
re 
Scirpus.) CYPERACEH (Clarke). 225 
uppermost sheath 1-3 in. long, rigid, narrow, abisoet trigonous in 
cross-section napa 5- . in. long occur at the base of the hanents 
ivikcietl up to 1 iy a in., always Lak ellipsoid-cylindric, obtuse, 
cies dense, hide glumes enone. flat on the back, with a 
crested ; nut scarcely 4 the per: f the glume, obovoid, plane- 
convex, brown , smooth ; style hardly any, branches 3 long ere 
Fl. Cap. ed. Sch hult. 98 ; ‘gt an ‘Linnea, Xxxvi. 695; Benth. 
Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl 1051. Isolepis membranacea, ae 
in Linnea, Bg: 291; 159. Ficinia membranacea, Kun 
Enum. ii, 2 2 (exclu. Seirus bp omi Thunb.). Hollmuthin 
opis Seas Syn. Pl. Glum 
AFRICA: pene locality, oe Brossard ! Ecklon, 1903! 1904! 
done Tien and Zeyher, 66 
Coast Region: Malme:bury Div. ; sand dunes near Groene Kloof, 300 ft. 
Bolus, 4857! Drage 43 | .; Cape Flats at Doorn Hoogte, Ze, yher, 
5s ape Div 
1775! damp cag places rng Retreat soe hora tig: 30 ft., Bol us, 7187 ! 
al Bay Di sand dunes in Fish Bay, b 00 ft., oe 3943 ! KKnysua 
iv. 
'V.5 near the a end of Alb Vallei, Paints 5645 
This is so remarkable a plant that there can be no qu pawns — that ng 
3943, is merely a form of it where the “ ict peg 
e ee 0 that 
- littora ad. 
ag flattened down ; so that weak flowers may be expected to show a 2- 
Style: the “hk seems to mea Hu-Scirpus, near 8. Mitoralis, Schrad., rather 
than an Isolep 
ot 8. yemies asi Deser. et Ic. 52, t. 8, fig. 3); eps: 
rainy in m., horizontal, woody ; stems 1-3 ft. ong, 
though a continuation of hee ate with the oad nae soikeleks 
often 50-80 in Pal Ri d, 2 by ~ in any-flo a 2 mes 
broad-ovate, not nate; eee tiilos 0: stamens 3, 
anthers hardly cae poe less than 2 the length of the glume, 
obovoid, trigoncus, trown. smooth ; style linear, hardly so long as 
hut, branches 3 Tiseos ‘Tonks oeck. in Linnea, XXXVli. 718. 
Fimbristylis textilis, Beatson, S. Helena 309. Asvlepis nodosa, i, 
7. Prod. 221; Nees in Flora 1828, 296; Linritta, x. 159; Kunth, 
Enum, ij, 199. Holoschenus nodosus, Dietr. Sp. i li. 165. 
Sourn ! 
Coasr i cn ap meg agg: Us ae Burchaly 85 850! marshy places on 
Xn Flats, nea e , 3308! Botany near C he 
sen age Uitenhage Tics wear tha tie outh of the Van — pos 
shag hl the — of the Sian er River, Ecklon and Zeyher 
