264 CYPERACEX (Clarke). [ Fuirena. 
reticulated by minute short-oblong transverse cells; tip conic 
rous, 
HARI ReGIon: Griqualand West; Hay Division, at Griqua Town, 
Burakett 1865! 
One of the few well-marked species in ba Genus: its glabrousness and in- 
florescence would suggest Scirpus as the gen 
Ps 8. F. glabra (Kunth, Enum. ii. 182, not of Ecklon) ; stems and 
leaves more than usually glabrous; petals elliptic, brown, 3-nerved, 
the linear points overtopping the nut, hairy ; nut small, stalked, 
globose, acutely 3-angled, very smooth, yellow-brown, beak long, 
subulate hispid ; otherwise as F, paved or F. ceerulescens, Steud. 
Boeck, in Linnea, xxxvii. 101. Cyperus? hirsutus, Berg. Deser. 
ap. 11; Kunth, knum. ti. 114, — Juncus, Buxbaum, Cent. iii. 
29, ¢ 3. 
Eastern ReGion: Tembuland; bank of the Meters gies below 1000 ft., 
Drios, 4343! iieailded East ; Ibisi River, Wood, 3 
9. F. Ecklonii (Nees in Linnea, ix. ne leaves with some hair 
hem, at least underneath ; petals neatly as long the nut, 
or almos i 
void, smooth, white, beak small, conic ; otherwise nearly as the 
see ag species, pean s x. 143 partly. F. if Sioa ties 
ar. B, Kunth, Enum. ii. 182. ¥. cwrulescens, Boeck. in Linnea 
xxxvii. 102 partly Ye oe ‘glabra, Ecklon ex Drége, ¥ sfimmeigati 
Documente 186. 
Coast ReGion: Knysna Div.; Koratra, below 1000 ft., rab / Uitenhage 
Div.; between Van Stadens Berg and Bethelsdorp, below 1000 ¢ . Drége ! and 
without precise eT mh ay Alexandria Div.; Zuur Bong Range, 2 2000 
t., Drége, 
CENTRAL as nl Aberdeen Div.; Camdeboo Mountain, 4000-5000 ft., 
Dre 
3 
3 
ege. . 
Das Reson: Pondoland or Natal; between the Umtentu and Umzim- 
kulu Rivers, Dréze 
The ey of F. eckloniana, Boeck. (in charg: xxxvii, 109), does not 
agree with that of F. Ecklonii, Nees here egiven. A sheet inthe Berlin Her bariam 
contained formerly a plant, of F. h ath honed on ee was pinned the original 
leserption 0 of F. Ecklonii in Whee hand—some drawin pgs by Kunth Satie 
also superimposed 
/ 10. F. hirta (Vahl, Enum. ii. 387); more hairy than the pre- 
ceding species ; the long excurrent midrib of the glumes long-pilose, 
. ceerulescens, and most of the preceding species. Sehrad. Anal. 
Fl. Cap. 52; Steud. in Flora, 1829, 153; Nees in Linnea, vii. | 
510; x. 142; ” Kunth, Enum. ii. 181; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 108. | 
F, cephalotes, Sehrad. in GQvett. Gel. Anz. iii. 2071. F, erioloma, 
Nees in Lannea, ix. 288; x. 142; Kunth, Enum. ii. 181. #. inter- 
media, Kunth, Enum. ii. 181; ° Boeck. in alias, xxxvii. 101. 
