Scleria.] c¥PERACEE (Clarke). 297 
obconic, ae black-purple, glandular with a short scarious white 
3-lobed e ge {outer = bi anthers) dise aheve Jp byglm (inner 
l 
reaching about half te height of the nab. ‘aan. Sr. il. 346 ; 
sn in Linn@a, Xxxviii. 
RN on: Pondoland or ah atal; between the Umtentu and Umzim- 
ku a Bian tak 500 ft., Dré age, — Na tal; Ungoya Forest, in a swamp, 
Wood, 3863 | Balan Bay, "Jane 
Also in Madagascar. 
XXVI. ERIOSPORA, A. Rich. 
Spikelets very small, 2-3-flowered, collected in close spikes 
resermbling the spikelets of Scirpus, mostly oe about 4-glumed ; 
owest flower female, upper 1-2 male. lei es ovate, boat-shaped, 
vbscurely distichous, lowest empty, A fem Hypogynous bristles 
numerous, linear, tamens 3-1; anthers a crested, Nut ovoid, 
trigonous, passing gradually into the pana fi style-base ; linear part 
of the style short, nario branches 3 long. 
Perennials with linear leaves; stems with nodes bearing leaves or bracts 
panicle oblong usally args tag lax, smaller in the South African species, with 
slender peduncles 
, oe Satie ra prea through Tropical Africa and the Mascarene 
siahds, 
. E. rehmanniana (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Con- 
one Fl. Afr. v. 676); nearly glabrous, rather slender; rhizome 
ure 
leaves 8-10 in. long, setaceous, subtrigonous in section; mouths of 
the split sheaths bearded by many white hairs ; panicle 2~3 in. long, 
lax, with 8-16 spikes ; lower bract like the stem leaf, but only 1-2 
m. long ; spikes 2 in. long, ellipsoid, dense with very many spirally- 
i in. long, ellipsoi 
rather stout, Bg apes style 3-fid. Trilepis , rekmanniana, ” Boeck. 
ee C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 676. 
Kabanarr ach Transvaal; Houtbusch, Rehmann, 5624! Pretoria, 
Rehmann, 44691 
ma This African genus Eriospora is he aes Boeckeler with the American genus 
be pieenasemten ot Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 1068. In Hricspora the spike- 
ets are 2-sexual, in Fintelmannia ‘al ure l-sexual. 
XAXVII. SCHENOXIPHIUM, Nees. 
Spikelets, some bisexual on nearly every plant, aaah (male or 
female) often added. Bisexual spikelet with one female flower at 
the base and pest males on a stalk springing oie within the 
So-called glume to the female flower. Glwme to female ovate ; 
