298 CYPERACER (Clarke). [Schaenowiphium. 
margins free or only connate a Pag! little way up from the base. 
Axis of spikelet below the m Srey ores Bey iit flattened, 
seabrous on the margin. Style 3. fid. Other as Carex. 
Carex only differs from this genus by having the fe cif utricles completely 
abseil: but in a few androgynous Carices Segre spikelets pre the yrs se 
utricle occur ; i there is no line bs ra these species and Sche 
egeanum.—Stem nodose; panicle es haw hes asley datenke pet ire 
very numerous; aren bracts etaise long-sheathin 
Distris. Species 4, endemic in South Africa. 
Glume ogee 
oid a ere aes ... (1) rufum. 
Nut narrowly a as es $3 eae ee) pois ere 
Nut linear-oblon a slat oe .. (3) capen 
Glume bifid at the t tip as se ian ae wag 24) sickmannianum. 
1. S. rufum (Nees in Linnea, x. 201); glabrous, ed 
scabrous; rhizome woody, divided at the apex; stem yh 30 1 
long, rather stout, somewhat trigonous ; leaves 8-16 by 3—} in., flat, 
tough; panicle 6-10 in. long ;- agin ts very numerous, approxi- 
at 1 
2 in. long, ovate, strongly 13-nerved, enclosing the nut, but the 
edges free to the base; rhachilla below the lowest male flower 
i wi tw 
2 
Nees in Linnea, x. 201 wily. 8. Lndwigis “Hochst. in Flora 
1845, 764. 8S. dregeanum, Drege, Zwei er Documente 
49, not of Kunth. Carex capensis, Thunb. Prod. 14; Fl. Cap. ed. 
Schult . 90; Nees in Linnea, vii. 535, Pir of Schkuhr. 
Soutn Arrica: without locality, Thunberg, Ecklon and Zeyher, 159! 
Coast Reeton: = rt = abeth, Ecklon! Queenstown Div.; on the Storm 
ip oe rae hae 
ége 
tn Re EotOx "Somerset Div.; Bosch Berg, 4000 ft., MacOwan, 1866! 
Philipsown Div., £ 
Ka rResiox ees nge Free State, Shorea 133! 
Eas Ree Pondoland, Bachm 116! Natal; Durban Flat, 
dechanae, 43! on ee en precise locality, Poke, OL! 
. §. dregeanum (Kunth, Enum. ii. 529); margins of the leaves 
(in dried specimens) much recurved ; thachilla to t ale part of 
as bisexual spikelet not much widened or eared mi the top; nut 
; in. long, narrowly ellipsoid; otherwise as S. rufum. 8. rujum, 
Poet in Linnea, xli. hg partly. S. Burkei, C. B. Clarke in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. Xx. 386, t. 30, fig. 8 (nut shown rather too narrow). 
Sovtn Arrica: without poets ae =“ ae, 149! Zeyher, wy 
CENTRAL REGION: Queenstown Div. ; orm Bergen, 5000-6200 ft-, 
Drége, 7399! Cradock Div. ; near mda, Posey iy 
This species is united by Boeckeler with the preceding (S. rufum), and is 
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