802 CYPERACE® (Clarke). [ Carew. 
and more broad ; inflorescence ie — often 2 in. long or more 
with the lower branches of the e panicle growing out, frequently 2 4 in. 
long and more; utricle yellow, finally brown, not shining chestnut- 
brown ; ; edges upward and base of beak strongly margined ; otherwis° 
as C. glomerata, Thunb. Schkuhr, Riedgr. i. 17 and ii. 12, ¢. 
C fig. 10; Kunth, Enum. ii. 383 : Boeck, in Linnea, xxxix. 89. 
C. ylom erata, Drege, Zwei acai Documente 56, 58, and 
probably of other authors in part 
Coast Reaion: Queenstown Div. ; Shiloh, 3500 ft. ge 823! 1136! 
CENTRAL REGION: Victaria Wes t Div.; Nieuw Veld, ween Brak River 
and Uitvlugt, 3000-4000 ft., Drége! Richmond Div. ; tenes of Styl Kloof, 
near Richmond, 4000-5000 ft., Drége/ 
Also in Europe, West Asia and North Africa. 
4. C, Phacota Saag Syst. iii. 826) ; glabrous ; rhizome woody, 
creeping ; stem 1-25 ft. long; leaves often as ne the stem, 4-4 In. 
wide; spikes 3-8, long- -pedunc led, 1-21 i ng, linear-eylindric, 
dense, terminal wholly ‘male, the others aes frequently male at 
the top; lowest bract overtopping the inflorescen nee or sometimes 
shorter than it; female glumes 3-nerved, with a rough excurrent 
lanceolate tip, greenish; style 2-fid, short; utricle flat, “ovoid, beak- 
—. triangular- spears: rag any rough to its base with red glands 
Kunth, Enum. ii. 420; Boot . Carex, i . 63, #. 168; Boeck. 
ane xl, 138; "C. B. ‘Gere: in Hook. f Fl, Brit. Ind. vi. 708. 
ARI REGION: Transvaal ; oe Rehmann, 4039! Orange Free 
Een ies Wie, Cooper, ant "333 
in a nok by the Mooi River, Wood, 4038! 
MacOwan, Herb. Aust -Afr., i690 
Also in ng Malaya and Japan. 
h African cig differ from the Indian in having ee been a 
larger (often 3 in. wide), the utricles longer and more genaret wnig se fem 
glumes considerably tee hen much fetes the utricles ; Bocek a bie 
onary has mark ahs Cape plant oe oe Phaco poe er eases. and the fifference® 
ye 
nearly as long as the stem, 1 in. broad; spike compound, l-lz by 
in., rather dense, of 10-40 spikelets; lowest braet 2-4 in. long, 
similar to the leaves, hardly sheathing at the base ; spikelets mainly 
1-sexual, a few 2-sexual 1 G.e. the rhachilla to the male beac are of 
greenish ; utricle 1—1 in. long, trigonous, gas Fara oat hg ae 
voth, many-nerved, greenish; nut nearly filling the ut?! ricle, 
narrowly ellipsoid. Evlanadighsesl Thunbergit, Nees. in Linnea, X- 
201 partly; Kunth, Enum. ii. 531; Boeck. in Linnea, xii. 359 
mainly; C. B. Clarke in Journ, Linn. Soc. xx. 388, t. 30, fig. 9 il 
(nut drawn too broat). S. Ecklonii, Nees in Linnea, x. 200 partly: 
emicarez Thunbergit, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soe. xviii. 367. 
