328 CLVI. CYPERACE& (CLARKE). [ Cyperus. 
obsoletely excurrent; sides golden, not striated; keel of 3-5 green 
nerves. . Style nearly as long as the nut; branches 3, linear, hardly 
exserted. Nut 3 the length of the glume, obovoid, smooth, brown.— 
Schumach. Beskr. Guin, Pl. 35; Kunth, Enum. ii. 108; Ridley in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 130 ; C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xx. 283, xxi. 85, in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 598, in Durand & 
Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 547, and in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append. 
ili. 29; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 283 ; Urban, Symb. 
Antill. ii. 24; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 109. C. micro- 
stachyos, Vahl, Enum. ii. 318; Schumach. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 36 ; Kunth, 
Eoum. ii. 108. C. aureus, H. B. & K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. i. 205; Kunth, 
Enum. ii. 21; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 494, in Peters, Reise Mossamb. 
Bot. 535, and in Flora, 1879, 548; Ficalho & Hiern in Trans. Linn. 
Soe. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 26. C. aurantiacus, H. B. & K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 1. 
205; Kunth, Enum. ii. 20; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 549. C.lepidus, 
Hochst. ex Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 14. C. triqueter, Boeck. in Flora, 
1879, 548, in Engl. Jahrb. v. 90, and in Engl. Gazelle Reise, Bot. 14. 
Upper Guinea. Gambia, Mungo Park! Niger Territory: Lower Niger ; 
Patteh Mountain, Vogel, 193! Nupe, Baikie ! 
_ Wile Gand. Kordofan: Arashkol Mountain, rotschy, 139! British East 
Afri-a: Ador village, in Kitch district, Petherick ! Bongo ; near Addai, Schweinfurth, 
2183! Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2256! ser. iii. 193! near Mombasa, 
Taylor! by the River Sabaki, Gregory, 116! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Stanley Pool, Hens, B, 61! Angola: Barra 
do Bengo, near Quifandongo, Welwitsch, 7084 ! Loando, 1000 tt., Welwitsch, 7024 ! 
7083! Benguella ; in sandy woods, Welwitsch, 6892 ! Pungo Andongo ; in sandy 
woods near the River Cuanza, 3500 ft., Welwitsch, 6912! Huilla ; between Lopollo 
and Monino, 5000 ft., Welwitsch, 6893 ! 
South Central. Lunda; River Lulua, Pogge, 465! Bangala, Hens, 135! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Taylor! Schmidt, 62! Decken, 115! German 
East Africa: Usambara; Amboni, Holst, 2598! Rovama River, Kirk ! Mwanza, on 
Lake Victoria, Stuhlmann, 453) ! Portuguese East Africa : Mozambique, Kuntze, 
205! Peters! Inhambane, Scott! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Mount 
Zomba, 5000-6000 ft., Whyte! Zomba Rock, Whyte! Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 
18! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 6248! Likoma Island in Lake Nyasa, 
Jcohnson, 47! Borama, on the Zambesi, Menyharth, 555 partly ! Upper Zambesi, 
Pinto, 69 (ex Hiern). 
Also in South Africa, Madagascar, India and Trop. America. 
Var. ? macra, C. B. Clarke. Much larger in all parts. Stems up to 18 in. long. 
stout. Umbel simple; rays short, erect ; bracts several, long, dilated at the base, 
Spikelets (young) 2-3 in. long, erect in close clusters.—C. amabilis, var. mace?s 
Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 547, by typogr. error. 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Smith, 26! 
26. C. uncinatus, Poir. in Lam. Encycel. vii. 247. Glabrous, oor 
Stems 2-10 in. long, tufted, slender. Leaves usually as long as ro 
stem, setaceous. Umbel simple (rarely compound or reduced to a hea 1 
bracts 3-6, much overtopping the umbel, setaceous. Spikelets digita ri 
often 3-10 together, % by 3-4 in., compressed, 8—28-flowered, from 2 
ferruginous to brown. Glumes ovate, strongly 3-nerved, the gree 
