226 cyperace® (Clarke). [ Scirpus. 
Katauari Reeion : Orange Free State, Rehmann, 3557 ! 
Also in the islands of St. cide and St. Paul, Temperate Australia, New 
Zealand, and Temperate S. Amer 
na outermost layer of round bowseoual cells) 5 otherwise as S. nodosus, \ 
ottb. Isolepis diceca, Kunth, Enum. ii. 199, not of Steud. 
AR: B, macrocephala (Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 720); stem enely 3 lin. in 
pbs 3 hea d 2 in, in diam. with 90 spikelets ; spikelets 1 by 3; 
, but the head Take 
z 
in ripe nuts. 
Soime ieee Clanwilliam a 
CreNnTRAL REGION: Micravsiers bin, Tieateadle Kraal, near Murraysburg, 
4000 ft., Tyson! Graaf Reinet Div.; ba nke of the Sunday River, 2500 ft., i il 
713! Miwa North Div. ; wea oe ‘Aliwal North and te Kraai River, 4500 ft 
Drége ; Colesberg Div., Sha 
ESTERN ReGton: Esti Samagualan near the hi ing arte Orange River, 
below 600 ft., Drége! Var. B, Gre amaqualand, Wan 
ALAHARI REGION: Polisi te est; Herbert tenis on fe Lower Camp- 
bell, Burchell, 1814! Hay Division at Griqna Town, Burchell, 1874! Orange 
Free State; Hexnots Fontein, Rehmann, 35 57! and without precise locality, 
Buchanan, 91 
Also in jal Africa, 
This species is distinct from S. nodosus, Rottb., a Soares 4 allied to it. The 
plant collected by Zeyher at “ Clanw illiam ” and dist d by Reichenb. f. as 
“ Holoschenus nodos sus, A. Dietr.” is Scirpus diecus, aes 
re 33. S. prolifer (Rottb. Descr. et Ic. 55, t. 17, fg. 2); glabrous ; 
rhizome hardly any, or short oblique descending, n t thic rk; ; stems 
8-30 in. long, leafless, each bearing one (very often eobtearte head, 
in thi i a 
pt 
every head,” oe many- owered ; glumes ovate, obtuse ; hypo- 
tam 
nut less than half the fetigth of the glume, broad, ovoid, pie rte: 
brown, smooth ; style-branches 3, long. Boeck. in Linnwa, xxXV} 
692. Cyperus punctatus, Lam. Til. i. 144. ©. prolifer, Thunb. 
Prod. 18 partly ; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 99; Steud. in Flora, 1829, 
150 chiefly. Jsolepis prolifer, R. Br. Prof 223; Nees i Flvra, 
1828, 294; Linnea, vii. 493; x. 158; Kunth, Berni ii. 2 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Roxburgh ! Thom! Miller! Chamisso, 219! 
Wallich! 
Coast Recion: Cape Div.; near Cape Town, Thunberg, Rehmann, 1791! 
