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Carex. | CYPERACE® (Clarke), 305 
keel beneath; inflorescence 1 ft. long, of 4-5 axillary, peduncled, 
pyramidal, eompot ound panicles ; cee apa! densel oe 
-150 to a 
4 8 utricles, no 3. fid; disichs including beak, 3 in. long, 
ellipsoid, trigonous, many- -ribbed, hispid nearly to the base, straight ; 
beak linear, half the length of the utricle, round- notched, with 
2 linear teeth; nut filling the utricle except the bea 
Kaan REGIon: Orange Free State, Buchanan, 98! on the Drakens 
Berg song Cooper, 1066! Transvaal; Houtbosch, Rehmann, 562 
tASTERN REGION: fe Inanda, Wood, 1190! and without precise locality, 
Buchanan, 350 ! 355 
Also in Tropical ftiea: 
The examples of this species are exactly alike, and easily distinguished from 
any other South African — But this section of Carew (Indice of authors) 
comprises about 20 species in India and 10 in Tropical Africa, abounding in 
Individuals and varieties, ‘aa Myce closely allied. The nearest African species 
© C. spicato-paniculata Schkuhr, which has narrower, more 
elongate, curv less ‘eatha Hd yess arest Indian species is C. cv uciata, 
Wall. , Which has more ovoid, voir ; ilsionie: narrowed, less hairy utricles 
12. C. condensata (Nees in Wight, Contrib. 123); —— 
peduncled panicles oblong, dense, ferruginous ; spikes usually w 
1-4 utricles at the base and numerous males above; utricles ov a 
more or less hairy; otherwise as C. spicato-paniculata, C. B. Clarke. 
Boott, Carex, ii. 86, tt. 247, 248; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 
Ind. vi. 716 
Kvanan Resco: Orange Free State, Buchanan, 
EasteERN Reaion: Tembuland; in forests on Bazeia oad 2000-2500 ft., 
Baur, 444! 1156) Nat al, Buchanan, 149! 353! 
Also in Northern India. 
In this ge nearly — of the fruiting spikes have a conspicuous lanceolate 
male top, while in C. spicato-paniculata the oe a appear to be entirely 
female, or with a ve ery tew ferruginous glumes at the 
13. C. Buchanani (C. B. Clarke) ; panicle 13 by 2 in., interrupted, 
of 4-5 distant, rather loose, axillary a panicles ; branches 
—t =, long, elliptic, aati male, 
dni narrowed into a short poe eae faci _Sehenoeihian 
Afr. v 
seni ves Natal, Buchanan, 134! 
. The material consists merely of the top of o The utricle, when 
emale, usually contains a fiat rudimentary Pee A nag " The plant is close sro 
allied to Schenoxiphi th t renders it 
specifically psi Ox% ip ium + anes. The genus is doubtfal, but the nut re 
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