Schenoxiphium.] cypERACEm (Clarke). 299 
oceania specifically distinct. Some utricles, in Zeyher, 1873, and in other 
examples, are very little split. 
3. S. capense (Nees in Linnza, vii. 533, excluding synonyms) ; 
robust, 3 tt. high; leaves more e than ¢ in. broad, flat; edges very 
scabrous, cutting the hand; nut nearly 2 in. long, linear-oblong ; 
otherwise nearly as S. rufum, Nees. Nees in Linnea, x. 
partly ; Boeck. in Linnea, xli. 353 partly. 8. meyertanum, Kunth, 
Enum, ii. 530, not of C. B. Clarke. Hemicarex meyeriana, Benth. 
in Journ. Linn. Soe. xviii. 367. 
Sourn AFrica: without eet Bergius ! — ioe and Zeyher, 126! 
Coast REarIon on ane te Table Mountain, 2000-30L0 ft., Drége, 329! 
Swellendam Div. ; ntains along the toe part : the Zouder Einde 
River, 500-2000 tt., aie, 4442! 
4. §. sickmannianum (Kunth, Enum. ji. 530); plant rather 
slenderer than S. ca , with na a less scabrid leaves ; 
spikelets rather larger; female glume 1 in. long, elliptic, bifid; 
otherwise as S. capense. S. capense, Boeck. in Linnea, xli. 
partly, S. meyerianum, OC. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soe. xx. 386, 
not of Kunth. Sehenus lanceus, Thunb, Prod. 17; Fl. Cap. ed. 
Schult. 95. Hemicarex sickmanniana, Benth. in Jour n. Linn. Soc. 
Xvlli. 367. 
nai A¥FRiIca: without ieee Rael J ! — 119! 
GION: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, 1200-1800 ft., Ecklon, 851! 
tT Re 
Bolus, "2861! 7938 ! Rehman, ‘ag pees rn 382! Worcester Div, ; Dutoits 
Kloot, 2000-3000 ft., Drége 
XXVIII. CAREX, Linn. 
Spikelets unisexual or rarely bisexual, female 1- flowered, male (at 
least in appearance) many-flowered, arranged in compound spikes or 
(the male often) solitary. Fe male flower completely enclosed in a 
utricle (really the bract to a division of the axis), Stamens 3- 
anthers linear-oblong. Style-branches 3 or 2. Nué trigonous or 
Rasen 
Pereunial ayes: st grass-like. Bisexual spikelets occur only in Subgenus 
Il. Bu -Care 
DistRiz, etn ‘nik scattered throughout oar Fidei but especially in 
moist eon eon fewer in South Africa than else 
Subgenus I. Vianea. Style 2-fid. 
Spike: a, ovoid, numerous, many 2-sexual, 
pray er 
Inflorescence a smal] esti _ ; utricle fags 
dull-br Ms (1) divisa. 
Tnflorescence la er; utricle brig eo 
” (2) glomerata. 
8 ike ub niculate | paler 5 utricle ellow- 
* i : : ... (3) valpina. 
_ Spikes shebie 48, solitary ‘Peduneled, ter- 
minal wholly male (4) Phacota. 
