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Tetraria. } CYPERACE (Clarke). 277 
. 5, Eu-Tetraria.—Fertile flower 2-sexual; lower 
flower male with a rudimentary pistil, not producing 
glumes distichous, not aristate; stamens 6 or 
vA Ths ; ayle-branches 3 or 4; stout or medium-sized 
plan 
Stem medium-sized, without stem-leaves ; ssl 
lets brown ite) a 
Stem stout, with a stem- eat ; ca nia pale . = tes Thua 
Sect. 6. Buekia. —Fertile flower 2-sexual; lowest flower 
not producing a nut; glumes iam distichous, 
minutely mucronate ; stamens 3 or 6, anthers crested ; 
style-branches 6 or 8: 3; stem et his with nodes between 
the basal ote: ‘ag the pan - 
Ste t. long, tere “ae . (30) punctoria. 
Stem 2 ft. long, tr WE samen ; cer 6 . (31) MacOwani. 
1. T. crinifolia (C. B. Clarke in ae and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 
Afr, v. 660); glabrous; stems 1 ft. lon o, slender, terete, striate, with 
distant nodes carrying leaves or bracts ; “Teaves usually as long as the 
stem, linear-setaceous ; ; lower bracts similar ; nae ey of 3 or 4 
very distant heads; terminal head (sometimes 2) of 10-20 male 
spikelets, subcompound : ; lower heads axillary, peduncle “te 14 
female spikelets ; male spikelets 1 in. long, lanceolate, ae brown, 
Usually 2 -flowered ; female spikelets similar, each with 1 flower 
without stamens ; glumes elliptic, acute, not meee screed 
bristles 0; nut q'o~z in. long, sessile, obovoid, trigonous, pale, smooth ; 
e nut; style-branches 3, linear. 
i sacorhynchus crintfolius, Nees " aint x. 199; Kunth, Enum. 
: oeck. in Linnea, xxxix 
—. H AFRICA: without oe: Ecklon and Zeyher, 95 : Talhah, 
wen ft.  Salechia me h Diy.; near Tulbagh Waterfall, Drége ! near Tu 
“5 habit this plant goes well with 7. cuspidata. 
2. T. i pao (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. FI. 
a v. «es plabrous 5 rhizome (seen) short, i ag A descending ; 
ms 1-2 ft. Jong g, nearly terete, slender ; basal sheaths brown-red, not 
abi compressed, of 5-7 glumes, usually in small close clusters ; 
)West 3 (or 4) glumes empty, 4th containing a bisexual nut-bearing 
ae h usually empty (sometimes male), small; fertile glume 
Ptie- -lanceolate, not aristate, hard, rounded on the back, more or 
‘Aatrow-pyramida al, passing into the style, scabrous, especially when 
Young ; style-branches 3 linear, Schanus cuspidatus, Rottb. Deser. 
