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Carex.) CYPERACE (Clarke), 309 
, wala aii without pag Zeyher, 743 
Ast REeGion: Cape -; Devils Mo Menten n, near the waterfall, 200 ft., 
Bolus, 3848 ! ein Div. ; in the forest near George, Burcheil, 6048 , Knysna 
mae ; Ruigte Valley, below 500 ft., Dréye, 7398! Uitenhage Div.; in the forests 
n Van Stadens Ber rg, Ecklon and Zeyher, 684! Var. 8: Bathurst Div. ; 
Kaffir si: fhm 3869! Albany Div.; in woods on Bothas Hill, 2200 ft., 
MacOwan, 1013! 
The synonymy of this “ats called C. levigata by Wahl. and Kunth, is given 
by Boott (Cares, iii. nogvlss ys ‘es also be seen that the type of Schkuhr’s 
C. eth iopica was collec sioahn in hae Africa, and not in the Island 
of Bourbon as pa a ia Schkuh 
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stout, triquetrous at ve top, rough ; aes 12 ft. long, 3-2 PRE 
times more than +) in. broad; spikes 4-6, lower distant, suberect ; 
bracts very long; peduncles short, lowest ‘sometimes 3 in. long, but 
not much eal. terminal spike (sometimes the next also) male, 
bright-brown, sometimes with afew females at the top ; female spikes 
1-21 by 1 in., dense ; female glumes ovate ; arista reaching nearly to 
the ‘top of the beak ; kegel (including beak) 2 in. long, ellipsoid, 
narrowed rather suddenl beak, striated, glabrous, when 
young greenish, in fruit cee deflexed; beak about 2 the length 
of the utricle, deeply bifid into nearly linear teet h; nut ae in. long, 
obovoid, triquetrous, dark-brown, nearly filling the utricle. FV. Cap. 
ef Schult. 90; Schkuhr, Riedgr. ii. 55; Kunze, Suppl. Riedgr. 67, 
7; Nees in Linnea, vii. 535; x. 204 ; Kunth, Enum. ii. 495; 
» nm Lin xli. 298. C. vesicaria, Thunb. Prod. 14; Fl. 
Cap. edit. Schult. 90, not of Linn, . lutensis, Kunth, Enum. ii. 
487 . macrocystis, Boeck. Cyp. Novae, i. 50 (?). 
Souta Tae without gen Thunberg, Pappe, 77! Harvey, 345! 365! 
Thom, 894! R. Brown ! Dre rege, 4367 ! 
Coast mee beds esbur. ry Div. ; Groene Kloof, below 500 ft., Drége / Cape 
Div.; between the Lions Head and Table Mountain, Burchell , 275 ! by the 
able 
allich ! Paar 
Div. ; Paarl 1 Mountains, 1000-2000 ft., Drége 1563! Port Elizabeth Div.; common 
along es coast, E.8.C. A. Herb., 174! Bathurst Div. ; ea Theopolis, "Burchell, 
4137! a t the source of the Kasuga River, Burchell, 390 
ay ReEe@ion : Orange Free State, Buchanan, iat 
No authentic example of C. macrocystis, Boeck., has been seen. As the utricle 
was y in. long, it must either eer been C, clavata, Thunb., or some entirely new 
ae Species, which latter alternative is im probable, as hare found his 
“4 crocystis in the collection of Ecklon and Zeyher. 
22. ©. drakensbergensis (C. B. oe stems 3 ft. long, 
stout, triquetrous at the top, rough; leaves 1-2 ft. by {-} in, 
closely longitudinally striate, not (or om obscurely) transversely 
—— spikes 5-7, lower distant 3-8 in.; bracts ve ry long ; 
lo septic ie often 3-4 in. long (and top female spike usually 
stint larity terminal spike male, or with a very few females 
the top; glumes tin. long, narrow-lanceolate, pale-brown ; female 
spikes 1-3 py 42 in, dense, pale-brown in fruit; female glumes 
elliptic, bright-brown ; arista reaching the top of the sep style 3-fid ; 
