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Mavrocheetium.] CYPERACEH (Clarke). 291 
XXII. MACROCHATIUM, Steud. 
an upper male ee se eh sometimes a added. HH pogynous bristles 6, 
long, linear. Stamens 6. Style with a dilated base forming a bea 
on the nut, song pie, branches 3 long. Nut rather small, obovoid 
trigonous, sess 
Species 1, sient, with the habit of on ral nia we Tetraria ; from which it 
differs in tiie ew non-distichous glum t flower perfecting a nut. 
It differs rel Carpha and Costularia i ae 6 ‘etiaens: 
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o 
Ke 7 Dregei (Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 159); glabrous; rhizome 
or 
basa 
nagar woody, thick ; stem 1-3 ft. long, stout, terete, striate ; 
12 by 2 in., stout, striate, subdistichous, sheaths 
striate ; panicle often 1 or 2 ft. long, 1-3 in. broad; branches 
lowest sometimes near the base of the stem ; 
lowest bract like the leaves, but — shorter; spikelets almost. 
peered, chestnut-red, + in. long more, ellipsoid, of 4 (or 
atistate, next glume ovate-oblong, obtuse, containing a perfect nut- 
se eunys Se next glume similar to this, but bearing a scale flower 
“Pian bristles 6, linear, longer than the nut (including 
it el) lind) abrous-hairy ; nut sessile, including the style-base 
Kunth, Hinum. ii. 311. Cyathocoma Neesii, ia - Linnea, 
XXXViii, 312. Elynanthus Kraussii, Krauss in Flora 761. 
1 “Pilg AFRICA: i locality, Burke! Drége, 3944! Eclion ye Zeyher, 
O71! Pappe! Vervea te 
ie Te Region : Peat Div. ; near Swellendam, 1000-4000 ft., Zeyher, 
B, ! Riversdale Div.; at the foot of the Lange Bergen, near rence Bare, 
wrchell, 71421 Uitenhage Div. ; Van Stadens Mountains, "MacOwan, 2020! 
XXIII. CLADIUM, P. Browne. 
1 Spikelet of 4-11 spirally imbricate glumes, with 1-~7 flowers, the 
hee bisexual perfecting a nut. Stamens 3-2. Style linear, 
pein 3 long; base dilated, oo confluent with the nut. 
ut medium-sized, ovoid, trigono 
Spec 
nearly yo dere Insular or near the sea; one in South Africa, which is 
oe C. Mariscus (R. Br. Prod, 236); glabrous, stoloniferous ; ; 
m 3-8 ft. long, stout, roundish, with nodes (beari ng jeaves or 
. by 
Scab; in., tough, 
b “¢ Lag ae the hand) on the margins and keel ; panicle 1—2 ft. 
¥%-5 in, of numerous axillary compound (often dense) corymbs ; 
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