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. S. holeoides (Kunth, Enum. ii. 354) ; pealy glabrous, except 
the ‘leaf-sheaths ; rhizome horizontal, woody; stems 18-30 in. long, 
somewhat stouter ey in ie of the 7 precedi a species ; slenderer 
at the as Sys basal leaf-sheaths distant, nearly leafless; leaves 
; panicle 3-4 by 1-2 in, compound, usually more 
rigid and ne than in any of the preceding species ; spikelets 
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Bast ReGion: Pondoland or Natal; between Umtentu River and 
Uunzinkl River, helo ow 500 ft., Drége, 4381! Natal; Durban Vat, Buchanan, 
! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 349! 
. S. melanomphala (Kunth, Enum. ii. 345) ; ; pee meas 
canis the oe rhizome creeping, +45 in. diam ody 5 
nearly smooth ; aves up to "ft, by 2 in., somewhat 3- sig a edges 
scabrous, cutting the hand ; partial panicles 1-3, 3 by 2 rather 
dense, long-peduncled ; spikelets all unisexual ; ‘female i in. n. long ; 
male rather longer, : several flowered, chestnut- brown ; nut § in. long, 
black’ style base is con uent) 3  gynophore pon eylinds dise 
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572, but not S. macrantha, Boeck. in 5 ai 1858, 647. 
Coast Re@ton: Komgha Div.; Kei River, Flanagan, 988! 
EasTERN REGION: ‘Tembul one between the Bashee River and Mor 
1000-2000 ft., Drége, 4369! Pondoland, Buchmann, 124! Natal; Coast- Kae 
Izikane, below 1000 ft., Sutherland! Inanda, Wood, 1597! near the Umlass 
iver, Krauss, 42! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 351! 
Also in Tropical Africa and the Mascarene Islands. 
S. natalensis (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. 
Fl. Afr. v. 67 3) ; medium-sized; nut =, in. long, fenestrate ; dise 
(at the apex of the gynophore) of 3 broad, short, rounded, subreflexed 
white, earshaped lobes ; otherwise as S. melan omphal a 
Por Sieteen REGION : Natal, Buchanan, 352! Gerrard, 450! Rehmann, 8000! 
Closely allied to S. melanomphala, of similar habit and ragged panicles ; but not 
likely to be mistaken for it, as it is considerably smaller in all its p 
11. 8. angusta (Nees in Linnia, ix. 303); nearly glabrous; 
rhizome }~} in. in diam., horizontal, woody, slothied by chestnut-red 
ovate striate scales } in. long; stem often 3 ft. high; 
leaves and bracts triquetrous or almost 3-winged ; leaves 1-2 ft. by 
4—2 in., 3-nerved, the marginal portions (outside t the 2 strong lateral 
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nut /;—;'; in. long, ovoid, smooth, white or purpurascent ; gynophore 
