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ein hottentottus, “Linn. Mant. 182; Thunb. Prod. 18; Fl. Cap. 
ed. Schult. 98. : 
Sourd AFRICA; without locality, Thunbery, Sieber, 96! Drége, 4342! 
Walch Thom, 907! Beryius, 177! Harvey, 340! Ecklon and Zeyher, 136 ! 
oast Reoion: Clanwilliam Div.; Jan Dissels Valley, below 1000 ft., 
‘Cape Div.; flats near Cape Town, Burchell, 57! Horvey, 175! Table 
Mountain, Milne, 232! MacGillivray, 418! Burke, 314! Devils Mountain, 
Ecklon, 34! 881! 882! Paarl Div. ; ountains, Drége, 7383! Worcester 
iv., Caledon Div. ; bouw, near the Palmiet River, 700 fi Y 
27! ossel Bay Div.; sand-hills near the landing-place 2 ossel Bay, 
Burchell, 6249! Knysna Div. ; ugt, Bolus, 2500! Koratra, below 1 ft; 
000 ft. 
rege! Uitenhage Div. ; near "Uitenhage, Burchell, 4230! Ecklon and Zeyher, 
168! Alban ny Div.; mountains near Grahamstown, 2000 ft., MacOwan, 1356! 
XIII. LIPOCARPHA, R. Br. 
Spikelet of many spirally imbricate glumes, lowest 2 empty, many 
succeeding glumes 2-sexua perfecting nuts, uppermost male or 
sterile. Bracteoles (?) 2, very thin, scarious, ovate, parallel with the 
giume, a ternate, anterior lower, enclosing the upper, which encloses 
the nut. ypogynous bristles 0, unless the bracteoles represent 
them. Stamens 3-1; anthers small, oblong. Style linear, not 
dilated at the base, Pa eae ; branches 3-2 meal, 
Stems with leaves at the base ie each bearing a dense head of 1-5 (rarely 
7 spikelets 3; glumes very densely packed. This genus altogether — 
the Mier ronthe: 8 ect. of Scirpus, and is confounded much therewith. a 
Probably the ae affinity, as in Scirpus Isolepis, Boeck,, we have small scale: 
sometimes 2 Se intermediate between the bristles of Scirpus and the sual 
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Disrris. Species 14; in the warmer portions of both eet PA 
oe cylindric ; glumes obtuse, tips closely appre (1) argentea. 
ikelets Squarrose ; glumes with recurved excurrent spud (2) pulcherrima. 
1. L. argentea (R. Br. in Tuckey, Congo, Append. 459) ; glabrous, 
loatead Salar 6-24 in, long, tufted, nearly round, each with 1 head ; 
faves 3 the length of the stem, —. by 2 in. broad, cimoat ‘ithe 
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‘ish, herve sometimes cbse Geo thin that if the nut is placed in 
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nut Pe) ; upper bracteole similar but narrower ; stamens usually 2 ; 
nite Shorter than the bracteoles, obovoid-el llipsoid, amis, 
