276 CLVI, CYPERACEH (CLARKE). | Kyllinga. 
12. K. polyphylla, Willd. ex Kunth, Enum. ii. 134. Rhizome 
horizontal or obliquely descending, short, thick. Stems 10-20 in. rong 
triquetrous at the top. Leaves usually short, sometimes $-3 oe sina 
of the stem, }-! in. broad. Head of 3-1 (usually 1) spikes ; ne S 
5-8, lowest usually exceeding 4 in. long, similar to the leaves. Spikes 
ovoid, 4 in. or more in diam., dense, green usually tinged with orange se 
brown. Spikelets 4-3 in. long, lanceolate, each perfecting 1 ao 
Nut-bearing glume scabrous, wingless on the keel, which is pee. 
into a mucro. Nut less than } the length of the glume, obovoid, 
finally chestnut-coloured.— Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 409 ; C. B. ee 
in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 531; K. Schum. in Engl. Hy 
Ost-Afr. C. 123. XK. elata, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 420, not of Steud, 
K. macrantha, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 420. K. aromatica, Ridley in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 146. K. planiceps, C. B. Clarke in 
Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 531; Durand & Schinz, Etudes 
Fl. Congo, i. 279. XK. elatior, C. B. Clarke in Durand & pep 
Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 528 partly; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 104. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Rabai Hills, near Mombasa, Taylor! 
Lower Guinea. Mouth of the Congo, Smith! Angola : Pungo Andongo; in 
fissures of rocks on the stream Malemba, near Candumba, 3500 ft., Welwitsch, 
6801! Golungo Alto; near Banza de Bango, Welwitsch, 7007! Loanda, 1000 ft., 
Welwitsch, 6996 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Hildebrandt, 1065! Boivin! German East 
Africa: Usaramo; Dares Salaam, Kuntze, 212! Usambara: Sega (Magila), Volkens 
66! 
Abundant in the Mascarene Islands. 
This species hardly differs from K. melanosperma but by the more numerous 
bracts. As to K. elata, Stend. (Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 70, not of Boeck.), the example 
of Boivin, 1676, named elata by Steudel’s hand in his own herbarium, is Mariscus 
dregeanus, Kunth. 
13. K. teres, C. B. Clarke in Durand ¢: Schinz, Conspect. Fi. Afr . 
v. 583. Stems 20 in. long, at the apex 4-4 in. in diam., cylindric, 
scarcely at all trigonous. Leaves short. Head of 1 spike, ovoid, 
exceeding 4 in. in length ; bracts 6-10, up to 6 in. long, more os 
4 in. broad. Otherwise as X. polyphylla.—Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. 
Congo, i. 280; Durand & De Wild. in Comptes-rendus Soc. bot. Belg. 
Xxxvi. 88. 
South Central. Congo Free State: Bangala, Demeuse, 336! Romee 
Laurent! Stanleyville, Duchesne, 9! 
This might be treated as a variety of K. polyphylla, Kunth, which it is —_ 
allied to in all respects. But K. polyphylla has the stem sharply triquetrous at t 
top, without any approach to the terete stem of K. teres. 
14, K. senegalensis, (. B. Clarke. Rhizome short, thick. een 
18 in. long. Leaves 8 in. long, } in. broad. Head of 5 spikes ; brac 
4—5, patent, lowest 3 in. long. Spikes short-cylindric, 4 in. long, 4 all 
broad, dense with spikelets Spreading horizontally. Spikelets x PF 
scarcely 7’ in. long, narrowly oblong, each producing 1 nut, NU 
