284 CLVI. CYPERACEE (CLARKE). [Kyllinga. 
long, 3—2-flowered, each often perfecting 2 nuts. N ut-bearing glume 
ovate, 2—3-nerved on each side, keel wingless, smooth, excurrent into a 
recurved short bristle. Style hardly any; branches 2, long. Nut 
more than } the length of the glume, ellipsoid, straw-coloured or 
scarcely brown. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Ruwenzori; Kivata, common up to 8000 ft., 
Scott-Elliot, 7554! 
Scott-Elliot has marked this “common,” perhaps not distinguishing it from 
K. erecta, to which it is perhaps allied; it differs in being stouter with larger spikes. 
and the glumes with recurved points. The greater number of flowers might be due 
to luxuriance merely, 
28. K. chrysantha, K. Schum. in Engl. PA. Ost-Afr. C. 123. The 
lateral innovations (short stolons) at the base of the stems harden into a 
rhizome seen } in. long. Stems 8 in. long, slender, hardly thickened at 
the base. Leaves shorter or longer than the stem, hardly attaining 
yz in. in breadth. Head of 3-1 spikes, golden-yellow ; bracts 3-4, 
lowest up to 3 in. long, similar to the leaves. Middle spike ovoid, very 
dense, } in. broad, rather longer than broad. Spikelets ;1, in. long, 
rather narrow, each often perfecting 2 nuts. Nut-bearing glume 
elliptic-lanceolate, strongly striate, hardly acute; keel wingless, smooth. 
Nut } the length of the glume, oblong-ellipsoid. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Karagwe ; Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 3227! 
Thangiro, Stuhlmann, 901! British Central Africa : Nyasaland; among rocks at 
Namasi, near Zomba, Cameron, 92! 
The Cape K. tetragona is the nearest ally to this. 
29. K. pulchella, Kunth, Enum. ii. 137. Stolons very slender ; 
rhizome seen } in. long, very slender. Stems 6-18 in. long, hardly 
bulbous at the base. Leaves often as long as the stem, 3',—} in. broad. 
Head of 3-1 spikes, deep chestnut-coloured ; bracts 3, lowest up to 3 in. 
long, similar to the leaves. Middle spike attaining 2 by } in., usually 
smaller, sometimes scarcely f in. long, ovoid. Spikelets numerous, }—3 
in. long, each perfecting 3-1 nuts. N ut-bearing glume ovate, acumi- 
nate, mucronate, obscurely nerved on the sides, black- or rusty- 
chestnut ; keel green or greenish-yellow, wingless, smooth. Nut } the 
length of the glume, ellipsoid, brown.—Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 102; 
A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 494; Boeck, in Linnea, xxxv. 405; C. B. 
Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 531,and in Dyer, FI. 
Cap. 154; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 145. XK. atrosanguinet, 
Steud. in Flora, 1842, 998, and Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 69. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: near Dubomara, Schimper, 1269! Shireh ; banks of 
the River Tacazze, Quartin-Dillon & Petit! Begemeder ; Gottes Claudius, Schimper, 
1302! 1313! near Gafat, Schimper, 1815 ! and without precise locality, Schimper, 
257! 1307! 1550! 
Also frequent in South Africa, 
30. K. oblonga, (. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 
Afr. v. 530. Rhizome horizontal, short, thick, covered by black scales. 
