262 CYPERACE (Clarke). [Fuirena. 
rg i. 1389; Desfont. Fl. Atlant.i. 52, 4.10. 8S. — Pers. Syn: 
69 par tly. Carex gOS Poir. Voy. en Barb. 254, 317. 
C Poireti, Gmel. Syst. Nat 140. Isolepis pene Roem. et 
Schultes, Syst. ii. 118, not of 156 67. 
SoutH Arrica: without Ioneaitity, Burke ce 
Coast ReEeion: Albany Div.; Gr cia aon > waa ft., MacOwan, 1271! 
at oe, ; near Cathcart, 4500, * # ma gp » 2 
EGION: Somers ain aati foe A sie of 
Conoadggn, Burchell, 3351! pee Derg, 4000 rs D ectigee 35 
Kat I ReGion: Transvaal; Pretoria, Relnown, 4770! aieks Valley, 
Ho ah ; er Brena = neat Barbert ton, 4000 ft., i 1363! ; 
ERN Recion: Tembuland; Buzeia, 2000 ft. Baur, 286! Griqualand 
ecee ouke of senna near Kokstad, 5000 ft., Tyson, 15 ! 
Extends from Portugal and Corsica throughout Africa to the Punjab. 
re many young examples from South Africa, besides those cited here, 
o F. pubescens in herb, Kew, from the inflorescence >and general aspect, 
probably share: In the account here given of Ca ies of Fuirena, examples 
so young that nothing can be made out about the raat or petals are in genera al not 
“ited. 
2. F. pachyrrhiza (Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, ii. 161); 
rather stouter; panicle often 4-8 in, long, with several satitare long- 
peduneled heads ; spikelets a very little larger ; nut sm all, white, 
minutely transversely granular ; otherwise as in /. pubescens, Kunth. 
P. macrostachya, Boeck. in Eng, Jahrb. v. 507. 
geet Region ;: Transvaal ; Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5625! Houtbosch Berg, 
Nelson, 
mics ann Delagoa Bay, Junod, 368! 
Widely distributed in Tropical Africa. 
Wood 1194, Natal (very young), may also belong to F. pachyrrhiza. 
3. F. chlorocarpa (Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, ii. 159); 
rather slenderer ; spikelets narrower, cylindric; glumes very little 
pointed (for ge nus Fuirena), the points not at all recurved; 
hypogynous bristles 4-6, about as long as the nut, exactly linear- 
setaceous retrorsely hispid, altogether as of Scirpus; nut dull-brown 
of a greenish tinge ; otherwise as the two preceding species. 
Katanart REGIon: Transvaal; Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5614! 91 
— Prevage Pondoland, Bachmann, 118! Natal, Buchanan, 342 
2! 
Also in Tropieal Africa and Madagascar, 
a 4. F. microlepis (Kunth, Enum. ii. 182 partly) ; spikelets 4 
long, in rather dense subglobose rea petals broadly o obtriangular 
rown, 3-nerved, as long as the nut, ‘nearly sessile, hardly micro 
scopically apiculate ; nut reticulated by short Ss ng transverse cells, 
ip minute; otherwise as the 3  precedin pecies. F, glabra, 
Ecklon ex Krauss in Flora, 1845, 757, not of Kunth. F. pe esti 
Boeck, in Linncea, xxxvii. 104 pa urtly. 
Eastern ReGion: Natal; Flats near Durban, Drége, 4339! Uwlaas, 
Krause, 59! yl! near + eke: Wood, 213! Delagoa Bay, Junod, 37! 232! 
