294 cypERrace® (Clarke). [ Scleria. 
Clusters of spikelets sessile on a more or less 
compound pani 
Panicle slender with few branches 
onger than broad... ae ... (5) dregeana. 
broader than long ... ee ... (6) Rehmanni, 
Nut 
Panicle com 
mpoun 
Panicle lax with longer branches... (7) Woodii. 
Phatiale at touter, more rigid ... (8) holcoides, 
a II. Evsorerta. spikelts aa snisexua 
of disc entire ith 3 rounded lobes 
Plaats stouter than in the Sub genus ees oporu m, 
leaves broader and tapering pare to the 
” Nut large, ovoid, smooth, one often black- 
tipp .. (9) melanomphala. 
Nut medium-sized, ellipsoid, “strongly reti- 
culated . (10) natalensis. 
Subgenus III, Seinen. Spikelet ts all ‘usual 3 
margin of dise with many lanceolate lobes. Plan 
out, leaves broad, ste iaasie premorse at nneqeal 
a, from the . (11) angusta. 
1. S. hirtella aig Prod. 19); hairy, sometimes only je 
inflorescence ; rhizome }—1 in. in diam., horizontal, woody ; stem 
8-20 in. long, x very slender at the _baso, w with distant 
nearly leafless sheaths; leaves 6-10 by 5 lower gradually 
shorter ; spike 2-5 in. long ; clehers of Piles 1_] in. apart, 
drooping, at least when ripening; spikelets 1—1 in. long, m 
bisexual; nut 3,—;}; in., ovoid, surge -trigonous, white, smooth, s se 
(but see var. £) ; gyno hore obpyramidal, margin obscurely 3-lohe , 
confluent with the nut, dise scarcely discernible. FJ. Ind. Occid. 
ti. in Di 
Enum, ii. 352. Hypoporum hir tellum, Nees in Linncedy i 
R. B Herinsianiye whim ex C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, —— 
Fl. ys v. 671); n mewhat — bee ne wa vy ribs, not shini 
_— Siang : "Kou gha Div. ; m f the er, Flanagan, 2363 
Karnanari R tre svaal; Magalies Berg, fepler, 1758! Var. B: Tennsvals 
Miealion’ Bens, Burke, 62! Lesher , 233 
ASTERN : Pondoland or aie between the Umtentu and Umzimkulu 
Rivers, below 500 yf, Dré “9 
? 
The typical form is also found in Tropical Africa and America. 
2. &. ripe (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. 
Fl. Afr. v. 670); basal leaves close together, elongate, with h long 
hair and ‘eel margins in the dry specimens ; otherwise a8 S. 
hirtella. 
Easteen ReGion: Natal; Clairmont, Wood 1423! 
Also in Tropical Africa. 
3. S8. meyeriana (Kunth, Enum. ii. 354); clusters of Y aie 
erect even in fruit ; otherwise as 8. hirtella, Sw. Boeck. 2 n Linnea. 
xxxviil. 441. 
