F 
| 
Scirpus. | CYPERACES (Clarke). 231 
hardly 3 the length of the glume ovoid, triquetrous, pyramidal at each 
end, smooth or nearly so, shining black when 1i ipe; style linear, 
rather shorter than the nut, branches 3 linear, as long as the style. 
Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 703. Scirpus pulchellus, Boeck. in Linnea, 
XXXVv1, 698, Isolepis paludicola, Kunth, Enum. ii.198. I. decipiens, 
Nees in Linnea, ix. 291; x. 157; e Coat. Enum, ii. 198. Hicinia 
, ney Kunth, Enum. 11.261; C.B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, 
aly et — v. 641. Schcenoplectus paludicola, Palla in Eng. 
Saish. x, 
TH AFRICA: without — Drége, 3959! 4426! MacOwan, 1743! 
abi 8621! Boiv _ ! Ecklon and am her 59! 
Coasr Rxoxon : Swellendam wn 7, 4386! Alexandria Div.; between 
Enon and Bushmans eae below 300 th eat Bathurst Div. ; near Fish 
River, belo ‘ bi Willia 7 iv.; near Toise River 
Station, 3700 ft., Kuntze, 278! near King Williamstown, Kuntze, 277 ! mgh 
» 2000 ola is “s Catheart Div.; Bles ts, ) 
*eye ; Queenstown etween Tabl et anor and Wildschuts Berg, 
4000 oe Drég oF ties. "3500 - Baur, 778! Bathurst, 1000 ft., Drége, eat: ! 
RAL bras 2 he Beanfor t West Div. ; between renga West and Khinoster 
ne "2500-30 000 fi., Drage! Somerset Div. ; Bosch Berg, 2000 fe, MacOwan, 
A 't., Dré 
Kea ceil nyds : Orange Fre es Buchanan, 163 
Eas N Ree : Griqualand bei: 3 wet places around Cly desdale, 2500 ft., 
oncn,| 2600 ! Natal, ‘Buchanan, 357 ! 
Also in Madagascar. 
tt 8. lacustris (Linn. Sp. Plant. ed. 2, 72); glabrous ib the 
stems 2-6 ft. long, terete or somewhat 
tinuation of the stem 1-3 in. g; inflorescence lateral, umbel 
simple or compound ; spikelets clustered or solitary, 5 by 3—% in. 
rown 5 glumes ovate, coneave, keeled, top scarious, emarginate, 
minutelv hairy, with often a minute point in the notch ; hypogynous 
bristles 6-5, us long as the nut, retrorsely scabrous, often reduced, 
regular, phat ; stamens 3; aaties linear-oblong, ‘hardly crested ; 
hut more than 1 the length of the glume, obovoid, dorsally compressed, 
smooth, es finally brown ; : style n early as long as the nut, branches 
3 or 2 s long as the style Somer, me "Bot. t. 666 ; Kunth, 
Baum. aL 164; Boeck. in Linnea, 713. OP. Clarke in 
Hook. F. Fi. Br. tad pe 658, s. ‘Tderwbae. Gmel. Fl. 
Badens, i - 101; Kunth, Enum. ii. 164 
oo ARI Rxee@ton: Griqualand West; Hay Peace, at Bloems Fontein, 
wrchell, 2642! Orange Free State, Buchanan, 94! 275 
Found in nearly all warm and temperate regions, ak South America. 
7 46. 8. littoralis (Schrad. Fl. Germ. i. 142, t. 5, fig. 7); glabrous 
except ih glumes; rhizome horizontal ; stems 1-4 ft. Jong, trigo- 
ion of the stem, 1-3 in. long; umbel lateral, usually eompound ; 
Spikelets solitary. by 4-2 in, pale brown; Pease ovate, tip 
note hinl % in the 
hed inly as. with often a small m notch ; 
