310 CYPERACE® (Clarke). [ Carew. 
utricle 1 in. Jong (beak included), ellipsoid, rather suddenly 
narrowed, with 1— $ very strong ribs, glabrous ; beak + the length of 
the utricle or rather more, deeply bifid into almost linear teeth ; nut 
nearly filling the utricle. 
Katanart Region: Orange Free State; on the Drakens Berg, near Harri- 
smith, Jerr 112! 186! Transvaal; Mooi River, near Potchenstroom, 
Nelson 
ied a gion: Griqualand East; river banks near Kokstad, Haygarth in 
Herb. Wood, 4201! Natal, Buchanan, 137! 
OrvEr CLI. GRAMINEZ. 
(By O. Srapr.) 
Partial inflorescences (spiielets) consisting of an axis (7 sag a8 
and, typically, of or more preg distichous, more or les 
heteromorphous bracts, of which the 2 lowest (glumes) form an in- 
volucre to the spikelet eae are st "whilst the following Na 
ents o 
Sa minute aa or fleshy, nerved or nerveless- scales 
versatile, scpiicantee of 2 parallel cells, opening longitudinally by 
lateral, rarely 3 or 1, free or more or less united, 
short ; stigmas as many as the styles, with simple or branched 
stigmatic hairs, exserted from the sides or the top of the florets ; 
ovule 1, anatropous, often more or less adnate to the posterior side of 
the pol hibaics with the thin cea adnate to the eed 
cotyledon shield-like (sewtellum), closely attached by its inner side 
to the cme gare having the plumule and the descending radicle in 
front, and sometimes also a small tate appenduge opposite } it 
(epiblast). 
