274 CYPERACEX (Clarke). (Epischeei.us: 
lanceolate, angel scabrous on the keel ; hypogynous bristles 0 ; 
nut 5 in. long, sessile ; style deciduous, "base inear, branches 3. 
Schanus ES Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvill. 274; of. Benth. 
and Hook, f. Gen. Pl. iii. 1063. 
Coast Region: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Burchell, 557! gage 
ae ee in peak near Swellendam, Burchell, 7324! Cale don Div. ; 
oek, 2500 ft., Schlechter, 7402! Riversdale Div .3 on the Kampsche Berg 
Burchell, 7076! 
XX, COSTULARIA, C. B. Clarke. 
Spikelet of several (or many) subdistichous glumes, lowest 3-4 (or 
more) empty ; owest flower ng next above it bisexual, nut- beanie 
(or 5), long, slender. Stamens 3. Nut oblong-obovoid, trigonous, 
crowned by the py aia persistent style- base. Style ong, 
branches 3, 
seed tee ay — stems with nodes bearing leaves or bracts thr ‘ough their 
whole le 3 leaves tough; panicle oblong, compound, with re spikelets.— 
From thelr ni it, tp species have often been referred to Cladiu 
DistRiB. Species 6 or 7; in the Mascarene Islands, Natal and wt 
Stems 3 fc. long; leaves 12-18 i . — Sf ae ee natalen 
Stems 3-{ in. long ; leaves 9 in. a ae Pa ta} reanernye 
1. C. natalensis (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. 
Fl. Afr. v. 658); glabrous (except edges of glumes) ; stolon hori- 
zontal, clothed by rigid lanceolate scales 1 in. long; stems tufted, 
3 ft. or more long, round, tough, rather slender, striated; leaves 
12-18 by 1-1 in., very tough, ‘scabrotts- -edged, upper pai much 
2 
smaller passing into the bracts; panicle 20 by J+ in, nearly con- 
tinuous with —: fetal dense axillary erect inanches bracts 
1-4 in. long, not conspicuous; spikelets crowded, 2 by yz 19» 
chestn ut-red, Paice: hard ; glumes not spreading, * boat- shaped, 
elliptic- lanceolate, hardly acute ; niargins microscopically white- 
hispid ; hypog ynous bristles exceeding the nut, weak, white, with 
anthers linear-oblong, rather large, apiculate; nut less than 3 the 
length of the glume, brown, smooth ; style- ae the length of the 
nut, pyramidal, white hispid i in the upper half. 
KaLanArti REGION: Transvaal; Saddleback Mountain, near Burber.on, 4500 ft., 
Galpin, 1316! 
TERN REGION: seals serine aed 354! 
The Mascarene speci closely ; O. Baroni, C. B. Clarke, hardly 
differs except by the eae entice with he flexuose tamale 
2. C. brevicaulis (C. B. Clarke); glabrous ; pew woods, to i 
n diam., erect, sometimes divided close to the base; branches Se 
wicks hei eight) 3-4 in., erect; leaf-sheaths aictinbvnd equitant, im 
bricate, exceedingly close together, «fir m, green or brownish ; leaves 9 
