Typha.) CXLIX. TYPHACEE (BROWN). 135 
handl. Zool.-Bot. Gesell. Wien, 1889, 159-161, t. 4, fig. 6, & t. 5, 
fig. 1; Schweinfurth. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. Append. ii. 92 ; Durand 
«& Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 470; Graebner in Engl. Pflanzenr. 
Typhacez, 14. 7’. ethiopica, Kronfeld, l.c. 162. 7’. angustifolia, A. Rich. 
Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii, 350 partly ; Schweinf. Pl. Nilot. 37; and in Bull. 
Herb. Boiss. ii. Append ii. 7; not of Linn. 
Wile Land. Nubia, Kordofan and Sennar, Schweinfurth (ex Rohrbach) ; 
Bahr-el-Abiad, Hartmann (ex Rohrbach). Eritrea: Halibaret, east of Anseba, 
4800 ft., Schweinfurth, 135; Ferfer, 3000 ft., Schweinfurth, 136 ; and Saganeiti, 
7000 ft., Schweinfurth, 885, (ex Schweinfurth). Abyssinia: Tigre ; streams near 
Jelajeranne, Schimper, 1563! Samen, Schimper, 1190 (ex Rohrbach) ; and without 
precise locality, Quartin-Dillon & Petit (ex Rohrbach). 
Also in South-Western Europe, North Africa, the Orient, and India. 
2. T. angustifolia, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1,971. Plant growing 
to 5or 6 ft. high. Leaves 24-44 lin. broad, linear, obtuse, convex on 
the back at the base. Male spike usually longer than the female, 5-10 
in. long, }—-1} in. distant. Male flowers with spathulate-lanceolaie 
entire or forked acute bracteoles; pollen simple. Female flowers 
bracteolate; bracteoles rhomboid-, obcordate-, obovate- or orbicular- 
spathulate, about as long as the hairs; stigmas linear, longer than the 
bracteoles ; hairs simple.—Rohrb. in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. 
xi. 81, fig. 3; Kronfeld in Verhandl. Zool.-Bot. Gesell. Wien, 1889, 
150, t. 5, fig. 2; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. ix. 2, t. 321, fig. 745 ; Durand & 
Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 470, partly; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr., C. 93; 
Gregory, Great Rift Valley, 398; Graebner in Engl. Pflanzenr. 
Typhace, 11. 
Mile Land. Nubia: between Suakin and Berber, Schweinfurth, ser. iii. 219! 
British East Africa : cliffs above Lake Losuguta, Gregory. 
Also in Europe, the Orient, and North America. 
3. T. australis, Schwmach. ¢: Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 401. Plant 
attaining 5-6 ft. in height. Leaves 3-6 lin. broad, linear or strap- 
shaped, obtuse, convex on the back at the base. Male and female 
spikes subequal, 44-12 in. long, contiguous or 3-1 in. distant. Male 
flowers with variously shaped bracteoles; nearly filiform, very nar- 
rowly spathulate-lanceolate and entire, or broader and 2-3-forked, or 
very broadly spathulate and variously lobed and toothed ; pollen simple. 
Female flowers bracteolate; bracteoles lanceolate-spathulate or rarely 
fusiform-clavate, acute or acuminate, about as long asor slightly longer 
than the hairs; stigmas linear, longer than the bracteoles; hairs 
simple.—Schumach. & Thonn. in Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Afhandl. 
1829, 175; Kronfeld in Verhandl. Zool.-Bot. Gesell. Wien, 1889, 
156, t. 5, fig. 4 (excluding syn. 7’. equinoctialis, Welw.) ; Schinz in Bull. 
Herb. Boiss. iv. Append. iii. 9; and vii. 888; N. E. Br. in Dyer, Fl. 
Cap. vii. 31; Graebner in Engl. Pflanzenr. Typhacee, 13. 7. angusti- 
folia, Hook. Niger F1.527 ; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 470, 
partly, not of Linn. 7. angustifolia, var. australis, Rohrb.in Verhandl. 
