266 CYPERACE® (Clarke), [ Lipocarpha. 
mooth, dark brown, aliens style linear, Page ees 3. linear, 
a hide. Kunt num. 266 ; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 
114 (excluding ee American pein et Gebel in Ann, Jard. 
Buitenz. vii. 131, ¢. 14, fig. 18, and t. 15, figs. 19, 20; C. B. Clarke 
in Hook. f. Fl. Bri. Ind, vi. 667. ee eae argenteum, Vahl, 
Enum, ii, 283. 
mong sane Transvaal ; Macalis Berg, vanoadast 1759! Burke, 76! 
Reeio atal; Um alaas Ri ver, Krauss, 13! Inanda, Wood, 513! 
and witkiet precise ‘locality, Buchanan, 114! 348! tie 8172! 
Also in Tropical Africa, the ie Isles, South East Asia, Malaya, and 
Queensland, A very common plan 
2. L. aig sores feng in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, il. 
spikele Yuzz1n.,8 e; glumes shreds: dark chestnut, with 
a tong, ae yellow-green, recurved mucro ; eine hardly longer 
wise resembling very small examples of the " preceding species. 
L. tenera and L. ad adele: BORE: Cyp. Nova, i. 21. 
KALAHARI ReGron: Transvaal; — a, at Koedus Poort, Rehmann, 4639! 
and seicieart precise ‘eke, McLea i Hee. ms lus, 6025! 
ASTERN REGION: Nata proc vit nn, 736 
Scattered thronghout South ‘Tropical Frese 
XIV. ASCOLEPIS, Steud. 
Spikelet of many spirally imbricate glumes, lowest 2 empty, many 
succeeding glumes 2-sexual perfecting nuts, uppermost male or 
teri 
h 
thickened, in the Cape species ee ae the flower, 
perhaps representing two lateral partially connate bracteoles. Hy- 
pogynous bristles 0, unless the scale represents them. Stamens 3-2, 
anterior to the glume; anthers linear-oblong, not erested. Style- 
branches 2 or 3 (sometimes in one spikelet). Nut small, oblong oF 
obovoid, unequally trigonous or nearly flat, smooth. 
Stems with leaves at the base only, each bearing a head of 1-5 spikelets. | It is 
porter Noe to sgheaiuraieas what the scale is, as there is nothing much like it in the 
ole 
Dis Species 8; in Africa and the ay Islands; one of which is 
Pre praais nearly the whole of South Americ 
vA 1, A. capensis (Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 
164); 
glabrous ; rhizome short, weak ; stems 8- 16 ix in. long, as, vate 
base, lowest 1-4 in. long; heads 1~2 in. in diam., white or white 
straw-colour ; spikelets with the tips of the numerous scales spreading 
on all sides, "completely obscuring the narrow oblong small glumes ; 
scale utricular, flattened, with a slit on the posticous face through whieh 
