306 cypErace® (Clarke). [ Carex. 
14. C. petitiana (A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 513); glabrous; 
stems stout, 2- a ft. long; —— 12— 24 pa in., closely striate 
g, of 4—9 rusty-brown makes aaa fometime wholly male, 
laainantis female at the top, lower female 4-7 by 1—} in. cylindric, 
pendulous peduncled ; glumes lanceolate, serena or mucronate, 
brown, much overto opping the utricles ; utricle =; in. long, ellipsoid, 
scarcely trigonous, stalked, slenderly few-ribbed, smooth, yellowish- 
brown, often with microseopic glandular dots; beak hardly ¢ the 
length of the utricle, linear, scarcely notched; style of. 3 nut 
obovoid, trigonous, much shorter than’ the utricle. Boott, Carex, i. 
88, ¢. 259; Boeck. in Linnea, xl. 411. C. pendula, C, B. Clarke im 
Dur and and Sel ahi, ‘Conapect. Fi, Afr. v. 688 partly, i.e. as to all the 
outh Africa plants cited. 
Coast Region: King Williamstown Div.; Perie Forest, 1900 ft., Kuntze ! 
British Kaffraria, Pete 4 
ie ge REGIon : Somerset Diy.; in woods on the sides of Bosch Berg, 
» MacQwan, "1608 | 
Res Reeion: Orange Free State, Cooper, 333 
GION: ‘Tembuland ; forests on Bazeia Heaniats, 2500 ft., Baur 
443! Natal, Buchanan, 68! 
Also in Abyssinia. 
This has — — habit od - ia ie ee: and the South African 
been 
plants have med hit Boott l.c. doubts whether C see 
A. Rich., is o th an a form of 7 ia a, Fudson, In the latter the termina 
spike is (except accidentally) wholly male; the glumes to the utricl ue A 
shorter and anne oe the utricle is less stalke d sqciags i. 
conte lineolate. At all events, if C. petitiana be kept up as a species, % i 
done by Boott and Boeckeler, “all the South African examples agree minutely 
with it—not with C. pendula, 
15. C. Parser (Boeck, in ae xli, 234); aR a 
10-18 in. long, nearly smooth ; leaves 4-10 by Tos 
a rough mucro, hardly so fe as the wisicle ; style 3-fid ; oe 
+a in. long, ellipsoid, trigonous, narrowed upwards into a very shor f 
beak, 8-10-nerved, dotted with red glands, glabrous ; beak and tip ° 
the utricle minutely papillose-seabrous ; nut obovoid, trigonous, on 4 
slender stalk. C. flavescens, Burchell, Trav. i. 467, name only. 
KatAHArRI Reeion: Griqualand West; Herbert Div., at Upper Campbell, 
Burchell, 1831! Hay Div., at Griqua Town, Burchell, 1911! 
This plant resembles C. diluta, M. Bieb., which has re found to leg ~ 
with the European C. punetata, Gand. (cf. C. B. Clarke in Hook.f. Fl. Brit. 
Ind. vi. 737). It differs, as Boeekeler states, by the pitt stalk to the n 
which cannot be found in C. dil: 
