278 CLVI, CYPERACEH (CLARKE). [ Kyllinga. 
‘ ey Gs! 
and in Flora, 1879, 515; K. Schum. in Engl. Pf, Ost-Afr. C. 123 
partly. 
Upper Guinea. Niger Territory: Nupe, Barter, 1586 ! mee 
Nile Land. British East Africa : Bongo ; by the Matju River, Schweinfurth, 
4032! 
- Gaboon: near the Ogowe River, Soyaur, 285! Congo Bree 
Si es cae Inkissi River, Gillet, 1010! 1022! Angola: Pungo ie 
in wet places on the Calemba Islands, in the River Cuanza, near Condo, Welwitsch, 
‘6800 partly ! ae 
oe Dist. German East Africa: Unyamwezi; Uyui, Zaylor! British 
‘Central Africa : Nyasaland; Karonga, Scott ! 
Abundant in Sonth America ; very rare in China and Malaya. mh 
The African specimens of this plant have been marked repeatedly K. eb ns 
by Boeckeler, and authors have published accordingly. It differs muc ae 
K. brevifolia in the rhizome, which is much thicker, with crowded uniseriate ste ie 
‘and imbricated one-sided almost horny scales. It has also very constantly, are 
subverticillate bracts (with sometimes a fifth small one added), whereas in K. drevi- 
folia the bracts are 3, and the lowest much the longest, 
17. K, peruviana, Lam. Encycl. iii, 366. Rhizome hormone 
thick, closely covered by ovate rigid brown scales. Stems 12-: se 
long, stout, contiguous and uniseriate on the rhizome. Leaves in od 
typical state hardly any, but the barren shoots often have leaves, aa 
on some of the flowering stems the uppermost leaf is 8-12 in. long . e 
in. broad. Head of 1 spike, globose, } in. in diam., dense; babe 
3, rarely exceeding 1 in. long. Spikelets 4-1 in. long, each periee mg 
1 nut. Keel of nut-bearing glume wingless, smooth. Nut 4 the ae ; 
-of the glume, round-obovoid, brown.—C. B, Clarke in Durand & Se ie 
Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 530; Urban, Symb. Antill. ii, 12. X. og a: 
Lam. I 4 148; Vahl, Enum. ii. 381; Kunth, Enum. rhe: =e 
Boeck. in Linnea, xxxy, 416, and in Engl. Gazelle Reise, Bot. - 
K. globosa, Beauv. Fl. Owar. i. 50. XK. capitata, Beauv. FI. Oren 
t. 31. K. aphylla, Kunth, Enum. ii. 127; Benth. in Hook. Niger abl, 
552; Henriques in Bolet, Soc. Bot. v. 209. Mariscus aphyllus, Vahl, 
Enum. ii. 373. Lyprolepis denudata, Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 130, 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Sieber, 5! Roger! Senegambia, Heudelot, 30); 
449, 452! Gambia, Szkues ! Cape Verd Isles, Smith! Sierra Leone, Don! 
Vogel! Liberia: Grand Bassa, Ansell ! Vogel, 30! Monrovia, Naumann nee 
Boeckeler), Niger Territory: Oware & Benin, Beauvois! Niger Delta; Nun 
River, Vogel, 7! Mann, 455! Brass, Barter, 63! 1849! Cameroons : Batanga, 
rocky beach south of Lobe Village, Bates, 116! 
; ! 
Lower Guinea. Princes Island, Quintas, 10! Rolas Island, Quintas, 125° 
‘Gaboon, Jardin ! Corisco Bay, Mann, 1898! 
South Central. Congo Free State, Dewevre, 211! 
Plentiful in Tropical South America, d 
The length of the leaves in this species is not a safecharacter. In Vogel’s Gran 
Bassa examples, correctly named by Bentham “ K. aphylla,” the leaves run to 10 in. 
toa 9 diffi- 
long ; and several other examples show fairly developed leaves, The species is diffi- _ 
cult to separate from K. pungens. 
