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Ascolepis.] CYPERACE® (Clarke). 267 
the style peeps, and a large, solid, linear-conic, obtuse, white beak ; 
style-branches 2 ; nut 1—2 the leng th of the scale (without its beak), 
black. Platylepis capensis, Ku a Enum. ii. 269; Boeck, in 
Linnea, xxxvii. 119. P. dioica, Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. ‘ii, 181, 
Souta Arrica: without aig Sey 1762! 
Coast Recion: Stockenstrom D Se t Berg, 4000-5000 ft., me 
Kaanari — Orange Free ; Nelsons Kop, Cooper “ra ns- 
|; Pretoria, at Koedus Poort, { eae ‘4638! Magalies Berg, ere ! Hooge 
, 12! 
EasteRN Recion: Tembuland ; damp places at hpi foot of Bazeia Mountain, 
nd t., Bawr, 133! Pondoland; nears the mouth o a Umtentu River, Drége ! 
yf near Durban, Bu puerto ! Nood Age 8 Woo a, 126! fe ees Wood, 307! 
. RYNCHOSPORA, Vahl. 
pikelet of nace imbricate glumes, 3-4 lowest empty, smaller, 
bs succeeding ae te 2-sexua ves nuts Ares rmost — 
ik with leaves and nodes above the base in the South African species. 
eo - Species 183 [i.e. inc rae Psilocarya, but excluding Dichromena 
ri Sopot few comparatively in the Old World; very numerous in 
erica, from New ein to a enn provinces. 
hye 1 YLE&%, Ben Style nearly opens the two linear 
ssid less than 1 the length of anitivided part of the s 
ah yma -—Globular heads of spikelets usually more 
oui Heads usually 3-5, often subumbelled .» (1) cyperoides. 
Sara —Spike jets hen niculate (clustered « or solitar 
a rs of spikelets many ; nut with beak } by ek in, (2) aurea, 
sen of sitkalebs an fewer ; nut with beak} by }in. (3) spectabilis. 
- Diptosty YLE#, Benth. Style-branches 2, linear, as long or longer 
hy the nae part of the style. i 
y —— bristles “ rn ial with teeth Hagioses 
upwards ... (4) glauca. 
vi nh cyperoides (Mart. in Denkschr. Akad. Wissen. Muench. 
shott, sub Rhynchospord) ; glabrous or nearly so; rhizome horizontal, 
eh » arising from basal offsets (very short stolons); stem 1-2 ft. 
b tg trigonous at the top; leaves often overtopping the — 4-} In. 
inf » Uppermost node and leaf often 6-12 in. above the base; 
i S0-an when fully developed an elongate panicle, cometines 
perf ®xamples) ; heads 1-2 in, diam m., dense, straw-coloured ; spikelets 
ecting 1 or 2 2 nuts ; hypogynous " eiba 6, nearly as long as the 
