Carpha.] cyprracea (Clarke). 271 
Sours Arrica: without locality, aes (ex Hochst, ye 
Hochstetter says that this species is close to C. capitellata, Boeck., — his full 
description agrees very Val with C. era except as to the style- bas 
XVII. ECKLONEA, Steud. 
Hypogynous bristles 3, feathered at the base, 3-fid at the tip ; 
otherwise as Carpha. 
DisreiB, Species 1; endemic. 
Se 1. E. capensis (Steud. in Flora, 1829, 138); glabrous ; rhizomes 
, i273 3 
in. long, slender, white, often terminating in a minute globose 
bulbil 2. in. in diam m.; stems 2-6 in. pe g, with leaves or bracts 
throughout their length ; leaves 2-4 by =,-1 rig panicle 2-32 in. long, 
linear, of 1-4 distant heads ; bracts likey Le leaves, slightly overtopping 
the inflorescence ; : spikelets 3-8 in a head, loosely clustered, + in, long, 
elliptic, green-white ; glumes usually 6 in the spikelet, lowest 3 
rigid, anfag in 5 a of which the middle is much the longest ; 
pale ix. 399 i 143 ; Kunth, Enum. ‘Wi. 287 : : Boeck. in gm 
XEXVili. 229. Uneinia spartea, Spreng. in Flora, os i. Bet!, 13. 
Trianoptiles capensis, Harvey, Gen. S. Afr. Pl. ed. , 422; Benth. 
‘t Hook, f. a Pl. xiv. 34, # 1348. Carpha pigiawlle Steud. 
Nomencl. ed. 2,i1.800. Carex ea Herb. Drege, partly. 
Sourr Milena sg nity, R. Bro Ludwig ? eek s Drége, 8152 ! 
T ReEecion: Cape Div.; Table auik Ecklon, 853! 854! near 
own, Harvey, 196 par tly! 
© structure of the spikelet and flower in this awed is so exactly that of 
Carpha that it pen be better to sink the genus in Carpha 
XVIII. SCHENUS, Linn. partly. 
Spikelet of few (or not very many) glumes, lowest few (or several ) 
empty; 1-3 succeeding bisexual, nut-bearing, distichous (or nearly 
80), distant on the axis of spikelet ; upper glumes close together, male 
ct empty ; the part of the axis bearing the fertile glumes is elongated, 
flexuose, so that the lowest nut stands in an =. or deep 
<t it. Hypogynous bristles various or ‘0. Stamens 6-1. 
Style a continuous with _ nut; style-base small, ule or 
; branches 3, linear, r by accident 2. Nut sessile or 
stalked, ¢ bieinesous or the anterior Paige rounded. 
