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Rynchospora. | CYPERACER (Clarke). 269 
slender, subtrigonous, node with leaf often 6-12 in. above the base of 
the stem ; leaves often 8-16 by 2 in.; inflorescence a compound 
with up-pointed teeth; stamens usually 2; nut 2—* the length of 
the glume, broad-ellipsoid flattened, chestnut-brown, obscurely 
whee undulate ; beak a depressed cone hardly 34 the length 
the nut; style- branches 2 , long, linear. Kunth, Enum. ii. 297; 
Boeck. in Linnea, XXXVii. 585; 0. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 
vi. 671. a, R. Br. Prod. 230; Kunth, Enum. ii. 298; Nees 
in Flora, isan, “291, and in Linnea, viii. 94. R. ferruginea, Roem. 
et Schultes, Syst. Veg. li. 85; Nees in Linnea, vii. 529; Steud, in 
Flora, 1829, 138. 
Coast Recion: Cape Diy. ; Table Mountain, Ecklon, 867! 
Katanart Recion : Trans vaal; Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5740! TLomati Valley, 
hear Barberton, 4000 ft., Galpin, "1365! 
Eastern Rearon : Nats ul; Inanda, Wood, 1596! and without precise locality, 
Buchanan, 148! 356! 
Also in Algeria and the Mascarene Islands, Australia — Polynesia; very 
abundant j in South East Asia and the warm parts of Americ 
XVI. CARPHA, R. Br. partly. 
Spikele 5-7 glumes, 3 lowest empty, 1-2 succeeding sub- 
distichoas isk distant) hineenal nut-bearing, upper male or empty ; 
axis of spikelet short, not flexuose. FLrpOBy nN é bristles 6, as long 
as the nut, sometimes irregular. Stamens 3, anterior. Style long, 
linear, with 3 long branches. Nut sessile, ellipsoid, trigonous, 
Pyramidal at either end, acuminate more or less hispid at the top. 
f Heads of spikelets in oblong Lacan: or few; stems with nodes and leaves 
ih some distance above the base. : 
Species 9; confined to the ‘Bouthers Paar ep geste 8s viz. South Africa, 
e Prem Funds Australia, and Temperate South Am 
Heads of rpesclese iriver in a large eat aa 
i leaves often 4 in. broa ore ... (1) glomerata, 
cads 4 te few, ina dicct panicle ; leaves less than 
3 in, 
Renee te ea not conspicuous, lanceolate, narrow at 
the bas arc ASEH 
Bracts to ‘cok ov ate or subcordate at the hese ... (3) bracteosa 
\, Uraets) throughout its length, nearly smooth ; leaves 4~20 by 
in m., tough, nearly smooth, often transversely lineolate ; in- 
*scence often 10 by 3 in. of 30 heads in a compound panicle ; 
Primary b bracts like the leaves but baeamrely overtopping the panicle, 
