292 cyprraces (Clarke). ic 
s ) 
(or according to authors sometimes 3); nu essile, a oe 
4 ne 
i. 75, t. 5, fig. 7 ne C. Mariscus, Kunth, Enum. ii. 303 : ar: an 
Linnea, XXXViil. 932. Schenus Mariscus, Linn, Sp. Plant. ed. ui. 
62; Sowerby, Engl. Bot. t. 950. 
— Coast Recion: Uitenhage Div.; Van Stadens River, below 200 ft., Drege, 
3954! aie elizabeth Div. ; banks of the Krakakama River i . = MacOwan! 
Kata : Griqualand West: Herbert Div.; a er Campbell, 
Burchell, hry at ae Marloth, 1000! Edel ir ae 4040! 
4484! 
TERN ReGion: Natal; Umlaas River, Krauss, 162! Clairmont, 150 ft., 
Wood, 3846! 
Widely dispersed in warm and t t 
t o 
XXIV. CHRYSITHRIX, Linn. 
Spikelets several, 1-flowered, 1-sexual, in a dense spike; central 
terminal flower a pistil without bracts, surrounded by numerous 
linear bracts, some empty, a few carrying 1 stamen each. ypo- 
gynous Mristles 0. Anther linear, with long linear crest. Style 
long, linear, not dilated at the base, branches “3 linear, Nut ovoid, 
subglobose, ait longitudinally many-striate. 
Stem without nodes, except close to the base ; head 1, lateral, of a few spikes, 
pope ako i coloured broad bracts ; lowest bract as though a continuation 
0 
DistRiB. ‘Guess endemic. 
This is the pri ers of the Sub-Order Mapaniew prio in South Africa ; and 
in this, as in a e Mapaniee, Bentham (G en. Pl. iii. 1057) « nig - ig 
cribed is 
eo sterile brace s, 1 or 2 at least, which come Se best the geese secre 
h i ’ 
e 
arti view s hardly possible; and it is negatived also by the og of the 
at ¢ the spikes made a "Goebel ae Jard. Buitenz. vii. 128 
Leaves flat... ee : ; igh CL ee 
Leaves terete ... eae Pe) pearson 
ae 1. C. capensis (Linn. ek. 304 t), Sinbeuse: rhizome, stout, 
woody, ne clothed by hard ovate striate bro wired scales } in. 
lo stem 12-20 in. long, rather slender, Lovie cee mooth, slencerly 
striated, me flattened ag the head ; leaves 2 the len th of the 
stem, ;};-} in. broad except near the folde base, falcate, with no 
midrib Lair near the folded base ; lowest bract 2-4 in, Jong, erect, 
similar to the leaves, from a folded base; head 3-2 by 3-5 im» 
enclosed by ovate obtuse shining chestnut or black. red “bracts ; inner 
bracts 2 in. long; . long. Zhunb. Fl. Cap. ed. ‘Schult. 
431; Nees in Linnea, vii. 537; xi 14465 igs Enum. ii. 3655 
