ye 
Fl. Afr. 
Tetraria.] CYPERACER (Clarke). 287 
grey-brown, with many aristate secondary bracts ; spikelets 1 in. long, 
ellipsoid, acute, often more or less white scarious at the top ; empty 
nut, including the stalk, 2+ in. long, ovoid, smooth, hard, finally 
dusky-black ; style-base ultimately a depressed boss; style linear 
long, branches 3 (Schrader says 2, which ‘has not been verified 
even asanaccident). Schwnus oo Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 267 partly. 
8. bromoides, Lam. Ill. i. 137; Encye. fer according to Schrader. 
Schenus sp.n. 83, Rott. Deser. et Ic. 63, te 8, fig. 2. Lepidotosperma 
Leottbeellit, Schr al. in Roem. et Schultes, es Veg. ii. Mant. ig 
Lepidosper ma Kottbellii, Schrad. Anal. Fl. Cap, 37, t. 4, fig. 4 
oeck. in Linnea, xxxviii. 335. L. thermale, arti Syst. i 198 
Marivhictacn thermale, Nees in Linnea, vii. 512 partly; Kunth, 
wm. li. 321 mostly. S. Rottbeli, Nees in Linnea, viii. 88 ; 
198. §, ener Nees ex Hochst. in Flora, 1845, 763. 
FRICA: te Legioney — eo Thom, 1022! Chamisso, 217! 
Eetlon Aeete Zeyher, 109!110! 
d EGION: Bive Div.; near Phone “Town, yeaa Ergon 1183 ; 
Siestantia, Wallich, 141! Devils Mountain, Rehm mps Bay, 
Burchell, ay babe Div.; Paarl pean ae 100 mea a pees 7376! 
Worcester ountains above Worcester, Rehmann, 2553! Stellenbosch Div. 
near Sellen, 200 ft., Bolus, 2863 ! 
hypogynous bristles in this species and in T, involucrata resemble greatly 
ia of the closely-allied Australian genus Lepidosperma, 
24. T. cag ay (C. B, Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. 
Fl. Afr 63) ; hardly attaining 3 in. in breadth; com- 
Pound spikes 2 by 2 in.; young spikelets ferruginous ; otherwise as 
Fagottballii, Pet, en angustifolium, Hochst. in Flora, 1815, 
Soutr ae without Songs Thom! Bau 
48T REGION: Cape Div. ; Constantia, Foss Falze Bay, Robertson! near 
Cape Town, Revaian 1183! 
ae seen are all very y _—_ 
rs r. Rottba The general mppesranee = diflere in the J ciate compo _ 
eads of series nad, spikelet 
5. T. - Involucrata (C, B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. 
Vv. 661) ; panicle very compound ; with often several peduncles 
from each leaf-sheath ; spikelets smaller than those of 7’. Rottballit 
nd in ver ry much amalieg clusters (only 1-4 together) ; otherwise 
much as T. Rotthellii. Schonus involueratus, Rottb. Deser. et Jc. 64, 
s 19, fig. pidosperma involucratum, Spreng. Syst. i. 194; 
chrad. Anal. Fl. Cap. 35; Boeck. in Linnea, esha 334. Belerv- 
Chetium tnvolucratum, Nees in Linnea, vii. 511 
Sourn AFnica: without locality, Zeyher, 4438! Sieber 231. 
