Kyllinga.| CLYI, CYPERACEZ (CLARKE). 273 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Between Shire River and Shupanga, 
Stewart ! 
Very general in the warmer parts of the Old World, especially near the sea, 
This plant is frequent in the Mascarene Isles, but only known in Africa by the 
two examples above cited, which may easily have been introduced. From the New 
World two examples only have been seen, one from Bahia, the other from Buenos 
Ayres. 
6. K. brevifolia, Rotth. Descr. et Ic. 13, t.4, fig.3. Rhizome creeping, 
2-8 in. long, rarely more than ;}, in. thick. Stems usually distant, 
Sometimes contiguous, not thickened by basal sheaths. Leaves longer 
than the stem or scarcely } its length, } in. broad. Head of 1 (some- 
times of 2-3) spike rarely more than } in. in diam., ovoid, of many 
Spikelets, green finally dusky brown; bracts 3-4, similar to the leaves, 
lowest up to 4-5 in. long, or (in the short-leaved examples) only 1-2 in. 
long, patent. Spikelets ;1, in. Jong, each perfecting 1 nut. Nut- 
bearing glume acute, mostly without glands; keel not winged, nearly 
always scabrous. Nut 4-2 the length of the glume, yellow-brown.— 
Vahl, Enum. ii. 380; Kunth, Enum. ii. 130; Boeck. in Linnea, XXXV. 
424 (excl. some plants cited), and in Flora, 1881, 79; C. B. Clarke in 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 588, and in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 
Afr. v. 527 (excl. Welwitsch, 6781); Urban, Symb. Antill. ii, 11; 
Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 277% Schenus coloratus, Linn. 
Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 64. 
Upper Guinea. Niger Territory: Old Calabar, Robt! Niger Expedition, 
without precise locality, Vogel, 37! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Stanley Pool, Buettner, 11 (ex Durand & 
Schinz) ; Sicia, Dupuis, 21 (ex Durand & Schinz). 
Abundant throughout the hot regions of the world, but very scarce in Conti- 
nental Africa. 
K. Schumann (in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 123) records Ks brevifolia, Rottb. from 
five of his regions (including Cameroons, Gaboon, Niamniam, and Zanzibar). How 
far this distribution is founded on plants that I have not seen, or how far it is com- 
piled from collections wrongly named brevifolia that I have seen, I am altogether in 
doubt. 
7. K. pauciflora, Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser, 2, Bot. ii. 147, t. 
23, fig. 1-4. Rhizome horizontal. Stems approximate, 4-20 in. 
long, acutely triquetrous at the top. Head of 1 spike, ¢ in. in diam., 
ovoid, of 6-12 spikelets, when young sometimes golden-tinged ; bracts 
3, lowest up to 5 in. long, similar to the leaves. Spikelets lanceolate, 
5 in. long, each perfecting 1 nut. N ut-bearing glume lanceolate, 
acute; keel smooth, without wing.—C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, 
Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 530, and in Dyer, Fl, Cap. vii. 152; Rendle in 
Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 105. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla, 5000 ft., Welwitsch, 6811! 
Also in Natal: 
This very critical species comes between K. brevifolia and K. erecta, themselves 
hardly separable: it differs from both in the longer, elongate-lanceolate, glumes ; 
the small number of spikelets may be accidental, 
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