308 * CYPERACEH (Clarke). [ Carex. 
all but one) usually clustered, subterminal; terminal spike male, 
the rest female, or with a few males at the top, }—2 in. long, short- 
Shine or globose, dense, yellow; glumes ovate-oblong, obtuse ; 
utricles gubglobose, ‘inflated, glabrous, minutely granular, ribbed, 
suddenly narrowed into the beak; beak 1-3 the len gih of the 
utricle, linear, curved, often deflexed. Schkuhr, Riedgr. is TA 
ii. 56, t. H, fig. 36; Engl. Bot. t. 1294; Kunth, Enum. ii. 446; 
Boeck. in Linnea, xli. 272. C. Gderi, Willd. - Act, Berol. 
1794, 44, ¢.1, fig.2; Schhkuhr, Riedgr.i. 67, t. F, fig. 
KaLAHARI deters Basutoland; Mont aux Sources, 9500 ft., Flanagan, 
2013! 
Widely distributed in Europe and the Orient to Kashmir, and in North 
America. 
19. C. cognata (Kunth, Enum. ii. 502); stem 3 ft., top triquetrous 
scabrous ; leaves 1-23 ft. long, 4-2 in. broad, midi’ shar tply pro- 
jecting beneath, tissue lax transversely lineate ; spikes about 7, pale, 
close together near the top of the stem, sessile, erect (lowest 1 in. 
spikes in fruit 14 by nearly 1 in., dense ; 
spike, lane ceolate, green with white margins, the hispid arista long 
but hardly reaching the top of the utricle; utricles spreading, not 
deflexed, ovoid- subglobose, suddenly narrowed into a slender beak 
much shorter than the utricle, with about 12 strong nerves, tissue thin 
shining glabrous ; beak smooth with 2 rather long spreading smooth 
linear ‘teat ; nut smaller than the glume, trigonous, dull-brown, 
obovoid hardly longer than broad. Boeck. in Linnea, xii. 299. 
C. retrorsa, Nees in “Linnea, x. 204, not of Schweinitz. C. Pseudo- 
cyperus, var., Boott, Carex, iv. 141. 
OAST hbase: Swellendam and Sa "aay fide Nees. 
Eastern Region : Delagoa Bay; Jun 
This differs from C. Pseudo-cyperus, ot tai the broader utricles and nuts ; it 
sll ih near C. spherogyne, Baker (from Madagascar), which has narrower 
eav 
20. C. — apolar Riedgr. i. 107, t. Z, fig. eed 
glabrous; stems 11-4 ng; basal "leaves 1-21 ft. by 1-} in.; 
spikes 3-7, lowest rol in. a top 1-2 inde, others female ; 
male spike 1-11 by 2 in., rusty-brown ; keel of glumes excurrent ; 
1 
4 4 
glumes oblong-elliptic, 3-nerved; keel _ excurrent, overtopping the 
utricle ; style 3-fid ; utricles scarcely 2 in. long, ellipsoid, trigonous; 
narrowed into a short smooth shortly bifid be ak, gla broue, slenderly 
nerved, even when very young red-brown, in fruit with red glands ; ; 
nut obovoid, erage sessile, $ the length of the utricle exclusive 
of its beak. Boott, Carex, iii. ‘110, t, 341- 343 ; Boeck. in Linnea, 
= 285, oe boigtinye Kanth Enum. ii. 492, 
am 6 1 a (C. B ke); spikes larger, female 3 in. broad and 
upwarie sista more than Pe ms oh acutely triquetrous, narrowed into a longer 
