230 CYPERACER (Clarke). [ Scirpus. 
Coast Reaion : Stockenstrom Div. ; Kat Berg, 4500 ft., Drege, 3937! 3938! 
This le He all the appearance of a Ficinia ; Drége’s examples are so very 
young that ing can be said about the gynophore or the nut. But as authors 
do not admit st species with ee bristles into Ficinia ; both Kunth and 
Boeckeler keep this in Scirpus. 
42. S. falsus (C. B. Clarke); glabrous; rhizome woody ; stems 
8 in. long, tufted, trigonous at the top, smooth, with one aan 
lateral head ; leaves onger than the stem, terete, hardly 7 
broad immediately above the stout sheath ; ‘bracts 3- 4, lowest yee 
erect, 3 in. long, dilated at the base similar ‘to the leaves : head + in. 
in diam. and upwards, made up of several heads of small spikelets, 
lowest sometimes 5}; in. distant; glumes boat-shaped, ovate, acute, 
bright-red, with paler longitudinal striations ; hypogynous bristles 6, 
longer than the ek antrorsely seabrous, white ; stamens 3 ; anthers 
Linear-oblong, er ted ; young nut ovoid, triquetrous, pyramidal at both 
ends, nearly ssi style short, branches 3 (in upper weak flowers 
air 2) linear long. 
Bh ope yl Recion: Basutoland; ‘Mont aux Sources, 9500 ft., Flanagan, 
010! 20 
43. 8. triqueter (Linn. Mant. 29); glabrous, stoloniferous ; stem 
gy, nearly leafless, triquetrous at the top, with 1 Jateral 
head, or a simple umbel of heads; lowest bract as though a econtinua- 
of the stem, triquetrous, 1-3 in. long, acute; spikelets 3-10, up 
1 by + in. , cylindric, obtuse, brown ; glumes ovate, scarious at the 
a notched, ee a minute hrintla § in the - notch ; hy pogynous bristles 
3—4 (or 6), often overtopping the nut, dark brown, obscurely scabrous ; 
stamens 3 ; anthers linear-oblong, not crested ; nut more than } the 
length of te feaes, obovoid, much dorsally compressed, pale, finally 
brown, smo oth; style shorter than the nut, branches 2 long, 
sparingly papillose, slightly fusiform. Sover by, Eng. Bot. t. “ 
Kunth, Enum. ii. 163; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 
658. 8S. Pollichii, Gren. et Godr. Fl. France, iii. 374; Boeck. ‘a 
Linnea, xxxvi. 711. 
CENTRAL REGION: Div. ; near hot springs, Cooper, 1371! 
KALAHARI Keeron: Griqualand West ; Bluems Fontein, ps chell, 2641 ! 
_ files in Europe and Asia, 
The South African ea have only a single lateral head ; S. mucronatus, 
Linu., differs by its 3-fid style and pointed, less-brown spikelets. 
- 44, §. paludicola (Kunth, Enum. ii. 163); glabrous ; rhizome 
woody, not thick ; stems tufted, 1-2 ft. long, terete, 6 slender, not 
transversely septate ; leaves hardly any, mareckinane i: ate 
st bract as though a continuation of the stem, 1-6 in. long ; 
heads ; spikelets 2-10 together, + by =4, in., chestnut-brown ; glumes 
boat-shaped, ovate, acute, entire ; hypogynous bristles 5-6, as long 
as the nut in the typical S, paludicola, fewer, slender, imperfect, 
hardly scabrid, or rarely 0 in the form pada (sp.) Nees ; nut 
