270 cyperAacem (Clarke), [ Carpha. 
secondary bracts lanceolate; heads 1—} in. in diam., ovoid, of 16-30 
n 
broadly lanceolate; glumes all close together, nut-bearing glumes 
hoat-shaped, elliptic, lanceolate-tipped, 1-nerved ; hypogynous bristles 
6 (3 “sepals,” 3 “ petals”), linear, rigid, scabrous with up-pointed 
teeth, straw- erscaiirest, not rarely irregular (several short or almost 
rudimentary); nut 1, in. long, ellipsoid, subacutely trigonous, dark- 
rown ; style- ea young pyramidal, hispid, as the fruit ripens 
the style-base jet nee confluent with the nut as a pointed pyramidal 
tip, scabrous on the angles (or nearly smooth), the style breaking off 
just above ; outer cells of the en og oat? rather large, pro- 
minent in regular series. Boeck. inned, Xxxvill. 265. Schenus 
glomeratus, Thunb. Prod. 17; Fl. ile ed. Sehultes 94. S. dacty- 
lotdes, Vahl, Enum, ii, 224. Chetospora dactyloides, tl ig é Pi. 
it. 32.. Ast rcheete glomer kige! Nees in Linnea, ix. .300; x. 194, 
exclud. var. B; nth, sien oll, 
Sou 
and ta vr 108. 
ast ReGIon: Cape Div.; near Cape Town, Thunberg, Rehmann, 1176! 
reece Wynberg and Co onstantia, Bur pins 819! = Div.; Paarl Mountains, 
1000-2000 ft., Drége ! Worcester Div.; near Worcester, Pa appe ! Caledon sgt 
by the Palmiet River, near Grabouw, 700. ft. Bolus, 1999 | Riversdale Div.; by 
the Great Vals River, Burchell, 6529! Uitenhage i ays the Van Stadens 
wei MacOwan, 651! Alban ny Div.; near Gra Schoenland, 138! 
wisons Poort, 2100 ft, Schoenland, 760! by oot eae at Grahamstown, 
Burchell, 3563 ! 
ASTERN Reeion: Pondoland, Bachmann, 123! 
VA 2. C. capitellata (Boeck. in Linnea, xxxviii. 266); much ionie 
i m 12- in. 
Nees. Asterochete capitellata, Nees in Linnea, ix. ; x. 194; 
Kunth, Enum. ii. 312. A. g glomerata, var. B minor, Nees in Linnea, 
x. 194. A. tenuis, Kunth, Enum. ii. 312. A. angustifolia, Nees 
in Linnea, ix. 300. 
— AFRICA: i re rg Ecklon 
Coast Reaion: Alex Di +. 7 Daas Borg Waa, 2000- 000 ft., Drege! 
Riversdale Div., 900 ft. “Bellet, 1905! Komgha "Diz. ; ; marshy places near 
Komgha, 2000 ft. , Flanagan, 9 
$. ¢. Percy aetna (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. 
Afr. v. 656) ; bracts at the base seat or oe sheathing the 
soi ar spikelets ; : artes ise as C. capitell, 
oast ReGion: Worcester Diy. ; in ny ies of the Breede River, near 
‘ites Kloof, 800 ft., Bolus, "saat 
CENTRAL Recion : Somerset cra 3 marshy places on the summit of Bosch Berg, 
4500 ft., MacOwan, 1616! 2187 
i mperfectly known species. 
Asterochete Ludwigii (Hochst. in Flora, 1845, 759, in note) 5 
style-base hispid, persistent, forming a beak. 
