Kyllinga. CLVI. CYPERACEZ (CLARKE). 275 
YJ 
$ in. long, each perfecting 1 nut. Nut-bearing glume ovate-oblong, 
without a wing on the keel, in the type plant 4-ribbed without glands. 
Nut } the length of glume, ellipsoid, yellow-brown.—Oliver in Trans.. 
Linn. Soc. xxix. 166; C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. FI. 
Afr. v. 532 (excl. var. y); K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. ©. 123,. 
K. ? alba, T. Thoms. in Speke, Nile, Append. 654 partly. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Unyoro, Speke & Grant! 
Var. glandulosa, C. B. Clarke. Nut-bearing glume full of conspicuons round: 
red oil-glands. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Humpata, Newton, 1! 
Further material may show this to be a distinct species. Of the var. brunnescens 
(now excluded) 1 have since seen a piece showing well the rhizome, and describe it 
below as K. senegalensis. 
10. K. crassipes, Boeck. in Flora, 1859, 444. Rhizome horizontal,, 
seen 3 in. long. Stems 4-8 in. long, contiguous, somewhat thickened 
by basal leaf-sheaths. Leaves rather longer than stem, 51, in. broad. 
Head of 1-3 spikes, pale brown ; middle spike ovoid, } in. in diam. ;. 
bracts 4—5, very long, lowest often longer than the stem, similar to the 
leaves. Spikelets } in. long, perfecting 1 nut. Nut-bearing glume 
smooth on the keel, without a wing, with sunk round red glands.—Boeck.. 
in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 534, and in Linnma, xxxv. 426; OC. B. 
Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 527; K. Schum. in 
Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 123. 
Nile Land. Atwot district, between Jemed and the River Rohl, Petherick ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Peters! and Mozambique Island, Peters. 
This species is slenderer than the others in this group. 
11. K. elatior, Kunth, Enum. ii. 135. Rhizome obliquely de- 
Scending, thick. Stems 16-24 in. long, thick, acutely triquetrous at 
the top. Leaves sometimes nearly as long as the stem, more often 
abbreviated (the uppermost 2-4 in. long), 4} in. broad. Head of 
3-1 (usually 1) spikes, middle one cylindric, up to 4-3 in. long by 4-4 
in. broad, of very many horizontal dirty-white spikelets ; bracts 5-6, 
very long, lowest 4—8 in. long, + in. broad. Spikelets 4-3 in. long, 
each perfecting 1 (or rarely 2) nut. Nut-bearing glume smooth on the 
Wingless keel. Nut less than 4 the length of the glume, obovoid,. 
rown or black.—Krauss in Flora, 1845, 757; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 
422; Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 334 ?; C. B, Clarke in Durand 
& Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 528 (excl. syn. XK. aromatica, Ridley), 
and in Dyer, FI. Cap. vii. 153; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 
C. 123; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 278. 
Lower Guinea, Lower Congo: Matadi, Heus, 31 (ex Durand & Schinz). 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Shire Highlands, 
Buchanan! Plains of Zomba, 2500-3000 ft., Whyte! 
South-east Trop. Africa ; and ? Madagascar. 
There js very little to distinguish this species from K. polyphylla, Kunth, and 
. e melanosperma, Nees, but the cylindric middle-spike. I have moved all the 
Angola examples (K. aromatica, Ridley), which 1 formerly called K, elatior, into 
K. polyphylla. 
