288 cypERAcE® (Clarke), [ Tetraria. 
Coast Raion : Cape Div. ; between Rondebosch and Hout Bay, Drége! Tul- 
bagh Div. ; on the Witsen Bere, reat 8698! j hae Div.; Du hae Kloof, 
ab ne 
1000- ége! mo orcest: ; we 95! 
Caledon Div.; arorces of “Bavians Kloof, n near Ge enad er —. 7765! 
or Div. ; on the summit of a mountain ak near Seuleanaa: Burchell, 
pea 
7364! Riversc isle Div. ; tae er ihe of the Lange ee above the waterfall at 
Valley Rivers Poort, near Kampsche Berg, Burchell, 7015! 
26. T. spiralis (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 
Afr. v. 663); leaves very narrowly linear ; hypogynous bristles 
short, feathered ; otherwise as as 7. involucrata. Sclerochetium 
spirale, Hochst. i Flora, i 761. Lepisia ustulata, Hochst. in 
Flora, 1845, 761, not of Pre 
Coast Region: Caledon Div.; mountain summits near Genadendal, Krauss. 
I have not seen Krauss’ plant, but the fae oe is very full and good. ith 
eed agrees, perfe ectly so far as it goes, Bur 986, collected on the Post Berg 
8 
in the bas gid, the bac 
i caine “Whether ‘Burchell’s | 5986 is posse the ‘Selerocheet ium ag of Hoch- 
tetter or no, it indicates a species close volucrata, 
pa adeadtnel. unless Hochstetter’s description of S. spirale be its sonetigeot 
- 27. T. ustulata (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. 
Fl. Afr. v. 664) ; glabrous; horizontal rhizome slender but woody ; 
stems often clustered, 15-30 in. long, slender, terete, striate, thick, 
globose and woody at the base, with nodes between the panicle and 
asal leaves ; basal leaf-sheaths a rich brown, fimbriate and usually 
am basal leaves ane long, setaceous, i.e. close to the 
base n. diam., nearly terete, woke elled ; stem-leaves ae lower 
at nites but shorter, pa black cylindric tight sheaths ; panicle 
3-7 —1t in., of about 2-8 fine-brown -compoun heads; spikelets 
rather loosely clustered in the heads, 2 in. long; lower flower male, 
with an imperfect pistil, upper 2-sexual, perfecting a nut ; lower empty 
glumes 5-6, distichous, conspicuously aristate ; hypog Aye ee 
or most minute ; ; stamens 3 or 4; style-branches 3 or 4; clud- 
ing its stalk nearly 1 in. long, broad ellipsoid, ston mewhat 
wrinkled. or obscurely longitudinally ribbed ; style-base *aitimately) 
small, pyramidal, scabrous, pea with the nut. Schenus ustulatus, 
Linn. Mant. 178; Thunb. Prod. 16; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult., 93 ; Nees 
in Linnea, Vii. 527, excluding syn. "8 capillaceus Thunb. Scheenus 
n. 82, Rottb. Descr. et Ic. 63, t.18, fig.1. Lepisia ustulata, Presl, — 
Bot. 10, t.5; Kunth, Enum. ii. 308. Elynanthus ustulatus, Nees 1% 
Linnea, x. 189, 207 ; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxviii. 260. 
wae AFRICA: without locality, Sieder, 117! ! Thom, 1025! Grey, 50! Papp’ 
nies Rreaton: Cape D rie Cape Town, Thunberg, Burchell, 926! 
Camps Bay, Zeyher, 1780! ‘Seek 365! (Sie Bay, Wright, 523! Table 
Mountain, Zeyher, 89! Pienaar es 617! False Bay, Robertson 
mountain tops Kloof ‘ u 
a 
p - . Aust. 3 
ai Diy. ; Dutoits Kloof, tid oe Riki sec Mountains near ree 
Kloof, 1600 ft., Bolus, 4079! e Worcester, ‘Rehman, 2554! 
Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek, 1500 ft. "Schlechter. 7445 ! 
