228 cyPerace® (Clarke). [ Scirpus. 
ALAHARI Re@ion: Orange Free State; Caledon River, Burke, 231! a i 
without precise pio Buchanan, 95! Basutoland; Leribe, ~ielogyrt: 150! 
‘Transvaal ; Magali s Berg, Burke! Joanne E. 8.C. A. He erb., 366! and 
36. S. supinus (Linn. ‘Sp. Plant. ed. 2, 73) var. leucosperma 
(C. B. Clarke); glabrous, annual; stems tufted, 1-6 in. long, terete, 
with one lateral head of 3-1 spikelets ; leaves 3 in. long, linear; 
aa ney as long as ths nut, branches 3 ata than the style. 
ber. st. 4. 
Brock in ‘Abhondl Ver. Prandenb, xxix. 40. te olepis supina, R. Br. 
rar, leucosperma, Nees ex Drége, Zwei Pflanzen geogr. oe 195. 
ast Ru ager Seren Div. ; Ebenezer, by the Oliphants River, below 
10 rs fh bg 
WESTERN Nok, Great Namaqualand’; Fish River, Schinz, 379! 
S 
37. 8. quinquefarius (Hamilt. ex Boeck in Linnea, xxxvi. 701); 
pinprous; annual; stems 4-10 in. long baie apie ea 8 continuous 
leaves hardly any ; bracts 2, lower e sect 2 —]5 in. Nea as though - 
continuation of th ; spikelets ri by + in or cinnamon- 
coloured ; glumes broad-ovate, hardly acute; hypogynous bristles 0 
(or uncertain rudiments) ; nut } the length the glume, broadly 
versely wavy owing to the small longitudinally-oblong outermos 
cells ; style 3—fid. C. B. Clarke in Hook. 7. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 657. 
S. rehmannianus, Boeck. ex 0. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Con- 
pte Fl. Afr. v v, 629. Factepis lupulina, Nees in Wight, Contrib. 107 ; ; 
cleha 
cs Ria ReGion: Transvaal; Boshveld, towards M‘Cabes Vliey, Rehman”, 
147! 
ets in Tropical Africa, West Asia, and India. 
. §. articulatus (Linn. Sp. Plant. ed. 2, 70) ; glabrous, annual ; 
stems tufted, 4-12 in. long, nae usually pseudoseptate when dry, with 
one lateral dense head of 4— Y pale-brown spikelets; leaves hardly 
stem; spikelets } by 3 in., very obtuse (in the Cape form); rere 
nearly hemispheric, neither pointed nor keeled ; hypogynous brist 
stamens 3 ; anthers oblong-linear, not crest ted ; nut less than + the 
length of the glume, ovoid, subequally triquetrous, nearly bl lack, 
strongly transversely wrinkled; style nearly as long as the nut, 
Brit. Ind. vi. 656. Isolepis articulata, Nees in Wight, Contr ab. “108: 
Kunth, Fram. i. 198. Is senegalensis, Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 96- 
