Kyllinga. | CLVI. CYPERACEZ (CLARKE). 271 
1 nut. Nut-bearing glume acuminate, strongly winged on the keel, 
wing ciliate. Nut } the length of the glume, obovoid, brown becoming 
black.—Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 429; C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, 
Conspect. Fl. Afr.v.527. XK. alba, Steud. in Flora, 1842, 597; A. Rich. 
Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 494; not of Nees. K.monocephala, Hochst. in Flora, 
1844, 102; not of Rottb. X. cespitosa, Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soe. 
ser. 2, Bot. ii. 145 partly. X. triceps, Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. 
Append. ii. 49, not-of Vahl. . dorsocrena, Nees ex Boeck. in Linnea, 
xxxv. 430. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: at the edge of the River Lobe, near Batanga, 
Bates, 143! 
Wile Land. Eritrea: Mogod Valley, 4500 ft., Schweinfurth § Riva, 1580! 
Abyssinia: Tigre ; Hamedo, 6000 ft., Schimper, 856! hills near Enderder, Schimper, 
581! and without precise locality, Schimper, 296! 836! Quartin-Dillon & Petit ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; in damp forest-meadows between 
Bumba and Condo, 3300 tt., Welwitsch, 6798! Muta Lucala, Welwitsch, 6790 
partly! between Lombe and Muta Lucala, Welwitsch, 6796 partly ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa; near Lupata, Kirk ! 
Var. subexalata, C. B. Clarke. Spikes usually 3 to the head. Wing on the 
keel of the nut-bearing glume narrow, Sheaths of the leaves much torn.— 
K. triceps, var. 8 ciliata, Boeck. in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 535, in Linnea, 
xxxv. 414, and in Flora, 1879, 515 partly; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 216 ; 
C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 533 partly. . cespitosa, 
Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot, ii, 145 partly. K. blepharinota, Hochst. ex 
Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 414, 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 399! Niger Territory: Nupe, 
Barter, 1588! 
Nile Land. Kordofan : Gebel Kurbag, Pfund, 359! 623! Abyssinia: sandy 
places by the River Tacazze, near Gursarfa, 3000-4000 ft., Schimper, 2201! and 
without precise locality, Hildebrandt, 360 ! 
_ This variety has been brought hither from K. triceps, principally because the 
spikes and florets are too large for that species. 
3. K. alba, Vees in Linnea, x. 140. Roots fibrous, or rhizome very 
Short. Stems cespitose, 8-24 in. long, sometimes minutely scabrous 
(scarcely hairy) under the bracts. Leaves often as long as the stem, 
$-} in. broad. Head globose, of 1 spike, 4 in. in diam., white even in 
fruit ; bracts 3-4, lowest often 3-8 in. long, similar to the leaves, patent, 
finally pendent. Spikelets numerous, } in. long, each perfecting 1 nut. 
Nut-bearing glume having a wing (though often but narrow) on the 
keel, frequently crested. Nut 4 the length of the glume, ellipsoid, 
chestnut-coloured.—Kunth, Enum. ii. 136; Boeck. in Linnea, XXXV. 
430 ; Ficalho & Hiern in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 26; Ridley 
in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 147; C. B. Clarke in Durand & 
Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 526 (excl. Barter, 1588), in Bull. Herb. 
Boiss. iv, Append. iii. 28, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 151 ; Engl. Hoch- 
gebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 146; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 123; 
