234 CYPERACES (Clarke). [ Scirpus. 
cylindric, brown; glumes boat-shaped, elliptic, subacute, rusty- 
brown ; hypogynous bristles 5, as lony as the nut, retrorsely scabrous, 
rown ; stamens 3; anthers linear-oblong, crested (in female flowers 
the anthers are sometimes reduced, linear, and empty, with the crest 
fully developed) ; nut + the length of the glume, narrowly ellipsoid, 
trigonous, pyramidal at the top, smooth, brown-black ; style linear, 
as long as the nut, branches 3 pes er than the style. S, tnanis, 
Steud. "Si yn. Pl. Glum. ii. 86 ; Boeck. in Linne@a,xxxvi. 714. Schenus 
cris Thunb, Prod.16; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult 94; Kunth, Enum. ii. 338. 
S. tegetalis, Burchell, Travels, i. 260 in note (name only). 
sia AFRICA: without eng a , Ecklon and Zeyher, 152! 
Aagged REGION : Clea yillia Div ‘ che Crcshe River ual Wl als 
River, 2500-000 ft., Dre a go Ow S Div Rel the Klipplaat River, near 
Shiloh, 3.00 ft. , Drage: ! Zwart Kei River, "Bone 9 
ENTRAL Reaion: Beaufort West Div. ; on ih Nieuw Veld, iiaabrge Lo 
45 a! 
noster Kop and Ganze Fontein, 35 ft., Drége, 689! Som set 3 
banks of streams at - a of — eee Berg, 2300 ft., aca, 1716! 
Graaf Reinet Div.; n raaf Rei s, 266! Sutherland 
bet 
Kuilen Berg - the Greet t Bick ania Pere 1346! Great ie Hiver Kloof, 
arte _ 1387 
ERN Tio , Namaqualand ; between Pedros Kloof and Lily 
Fonte, 3060-4000 ft., Dré 
LAHARL REGION: Grisaalsata West; Kimberley, Flanagan, a 
his species has the aspect of Cladium or one of the large Schen#, and the nut 
we sete suit the genus Schenus well pein But it is placed in pore now by 
ull authorities, because the flowers are numerous in the spikelet. Tue tribe of 
Schanee differs mainly from Scena proper by having few flowers to the 
spikelet. 
Imperfectly known species. 
S. pilosus (Thunb. Prod. 18); stem flattened; leaves radical, 
convolute, ciliate on the margins and keel ; head ovate ; bracts about 
4, up to 2 3 in. long, reflexed; glumes lanceolate, ciliate, yellow with 
green edges, Fl, Cup. ed. Schult, 98; Kunth, "Enum, ii, 174, not 
of Retz. 
Soutn AFRICA: without locality, Thunberg ! 
No author seems to have been able to divine what this could have been. 
X. ERIOPHORUM, Linn. 
Hypogynous ULristles 6, strap-shaped, cut down to the base into 
several narrow segments, Peps te in fruit, rendering the spikelet 
comose; otherwise as Seir 
Distris, Species 10; 8N abs een or Arctic, 2 in India and China. 
angustifolium (Roth, Neue Beitr. 94); gets stolo- 
niferous ; 5 stem 8—24 in, ae smooth, usually ie hayes 4 ghout 
its length; leaves often } the length of the stem, 3} i wroad 
a of umbel 1-7 (rarely reduced to 1 nike) 03 in. long a 
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