286 CYPERACEH (Clarke). [ Tetrarid. 
2000 ft., Drége, 3965b! mountains of Baviaans Kloof, near oe Bur- 
chell, 7780! Klein River Mountains, 1000-2000 ft., Zeyher, 439! Riversdale 
Div. ; lower part of the Lange Bergen, near Kampsche e Berg, Burchell, 6957! 
eximia (C. e Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. FI. 
661); leaves 1—1 in. broad; hypogynous bristles about 4, small, 
reat she white- ets style- base hemispheric, nearly smooth, 
confluent with the young pistil; otherwise as though a very slender 
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Sourn Arr ICA: hana? ee cota 315! 
Coser Reeion: Cupe Div.; F y, Robertson ! 
d leaf are bine ei me those of T. thermalis, the spikelets 
(and clusters of them) nearly as large. 
21. T. triangularis (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. 
F]. Afr. v. 663) ; stem of medium thickness, acutely triangular; leaves 
% in. broad ; panicle 8 by 1 in., wild thin, of about 12 subs olitary 
bright ferru uginous-brown spikelets; otherwise as though a very 
slender T’. thermalis. ype anne triangulare, Boeck. in Linnea, 
XXXvili. 336. 
Sour ~ rele without locality, Ecklon and Zeyher (ex Boeckeler). 
Coast Region: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Burchell, 659! 
The ese of this species are exceedingly young; it is clearly so allied 
to T. therm 
22. T. secans (C. B. Clarke in pg aa and Schinz, idiot Fi. 
Afr. v. 663); glabrous ; stems 3—4 ft. (or more) long, trigonous, with 
nodes scattered throughout their Lesa: teal sheaths, e entire, firm ; 
leaves 12-20 by 2 in., but above the base soon narrowed, long acumi- 
nate caudate “ cutting like a knife” (Burchell note) ; stem-leaves 
similar but shorter, passing into the similar shorter bracts ; panicle 
12-16 by 1-} in., compound with very numerous clustered spikelets ; 
spikelets 4 in. long, ellipsoid, dusky-brown, lower empty glumes 6-5, 
aristate, scarious-edged, somewhat puberulous; lower flower male, 
with an imperfect pistil, upper xp perfecting a nut ; hypogynous 
bristles 0; stamens 3; anthers o e genus scarcely "eared at the 
base ; nut, es the short stalk, nearly 4 in. long, ovoid-ellipsoid, 
smooth, bony; style-base when young large, pyramidal, hispid, but 
in the ripe nut nearly absorbed. 
Coast Region: Curgs Div.; in and near the forest vy the Touw River, 
Burchell, 5712! 5733! 
be ~ = yo hge? (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. 
7 v. 662); glabrous; rhizome very short, woody; stems 3-4 
. i tufted, terete, with no odes (bearing leaves or bracts) scattered 
Dimeghions their length ; basal leaf-sheaths fim riate ; leaves 12 by 
2 in., “tough, stem-leaves and bracts similar, shorter ; ” panicle some- 
ae in appearance simple, 12 by 1 in., with a single pedun cled 
compound with 1-3 peduncles, up to 4 in. long, each bearing @ nen 
of compound heads ; compound heads of kes often 1 ‘by 3 
