aaa, A I a at 
Tetraria. } cYrerace® (Clarke). 289 
| HA 28.T. compar (Lestib. Essai Cyp. 1819, 36) ; glabrous; rhizome 
short, horizontal; stems 8-30 in. long, tuft d, medium-sized, 
terete, without nodes between the panicle and basal leaves ; leaf. 
sheaths coloured, with searious edges, not fim aspen leaves 4-12 b 
at the base ; qe sil by 2 in., nearly sessile, erect, rigid, a fine 
rown, often viscid ; empty lower glumes 4—5, ovate hardly acute, 
distichous, rigid; lower flower male, with imperfect pistil (or 
sometimes . low er sowers iene ; we 2- we BS hae a nut; 
iti bearing aes anthers tae nearly 2 in. long, with "libs 
smooth, very minutely reticulated ; style er branches 3 or 4, 
long, linear.” Schcenus compar, Linn. Mant.177 ; Thunb. Prod. a 
l. Cap. ed. Schult. 93. 8S. arenarius, Schrad. ia Fl. Cap. 2 
t.4, fig.2. S. viscosus, Schrad. Anal. Fl. Cap. 26. Schanus sp.n. 35; 
Rotto, Deser, et Te. 65, 4.18, fig. 4. BRhynchospora nitida, Spreng. 
Neue Exntad. iii, — Syst. i. 195. Elynanthus compar, Nees in 
Linnea, vii. 520; . 187; ; Kunth, Enum. ii. 308 ; Boeck. in Linnea, 
XXXxViii, 255, A arenarius, Nees in Linnea, i ix. 298. LE. viscosus, 
Nees in Linnea, x. 186 
So FRICA: without as Thunberg, Siever, 106! Verreaux! Ecklon! 
Ecklon ang Zeyher, 101! : 
Coast Region: Cape Div.; Cape Flats, Pappe / Table Mountain, Drége, 198! 
Burchell, 8417! Relieona, 613! 620! Bolus, 4642! False Bay, Robertson! Con- 
Stantia, Zeyher, 85! Tulbagh Diy.; mountain tops near New por 2000 ft., 
Quan, Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1685! Worcester Div. 3 Dintatte Ieloo 2000-4 4000 f., 
Drége! Caledon Div.; Houw Hlosk, 2000-2500 ft., Sc Srey 7383! 7413 ! 
Riversdale D Div. ; lower part of t ange pg one gall’ the waterfall at Valley 
Rivers Poort, near Kampsche Berg, Burhe lu, 6990! 
. 29. T. Thuarii (Beauv. in Mém. Inst. Fr. 1812 [ed. 1816] 
mA BS) : glabrous; stem 11-3 ft. long, obscurely trigonous, with 
1 or 2 2 eylindric sheaths between the panicle and basal leaves; stem-leaf 
12-24 $72 In.; panicle 12 by 1-2 in,, compound, with numerous 
erect branches and spikelets; bracts similar to the stem-leaf but 
shorter ; spikelets approximate but hardly clustered, nearly 3 by 
usky-br 
the nut, linear, scabrous ; style-branches 3 or 4; nut obovoid, 
ees style-base confluent with it, ne white, auger 
hispid. * ile ay Ecklonii, Nees in Linnea, ix. 300; x. 195; 
Kunth, Enum. 323; Boeck. in Linnea, unt 5 311. Tides 
capensis, Kauih, ‘Sewn i. 311. oe 
3) 8 satiiee ys eae (C. a 2-00 in. Mae wieh Durand mela ecient bate ae it 
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