332 CLVI, CYPERACEH (CLARKE). | Cyperus. 
Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 565, name only; K. Schum. in Engl. Pf. 
Ost-Afr. C. 119. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, 5000-6500 ft., Taylor ! 
olkens, 2275! 
This differs little from some large examples of C. Haspan, but by the dark 
chestnut-colour and rather larger glumes. 
32. C. Haspan, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 66 partly, not of Linn. Herb. 
Glabrous. Rhizome long-creeping, } in. thick, sometimes slender ; 
plants frequently flower the first year. Stems distant on long-creeping 
rhizomes, more often close together, varying from 4 to 28 in. long, at 
the apex from ,'; in. diam. and trigonous to } in. diam. and triquetrous 
or 3-winged. Leaves often short, or hardly any, sometimes long or 
overtopping the stem 4-} in. broad. Umbel usually compound or 
decompound, rarely simple, small or large; bracts usually 2-3, lower 
suberect shorter than the umbel, but sometimes far overtopping the 
umbel. Spikelets 2-6 together, digitate, 1-1 by 3.-,4 in., much 
compressed, 10—4()-flowered. Glumes ovate, obtuse, obscurely or not 
mucronate, 1—3-nerved on the keel, dusky green or purple-reddish. 
Stamens 3-2; anthers linear-oblong. Style short ; branches 3, scarcely 
exserted. Nut 4-4 the length of the glume, ovoid or obovoid, scabrid 
or nearly smooth, pallid or brown.—Kunth, Enum. ii. 34; Benth. in 
Hook. Niger Fl. 550 partly; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 574, var. a, and 
in Flora, 1879, 550 partly ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 
600, and in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 564; Ridley in 
Trans. Linn. Soe. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 136; Boeck. in Engl. Gazelle Reise, 
Bot. 15; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 119; Durand & Schinz, 
Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 289 ; De Wild. & Durand in Comptes-rendus Soc. 
bot. Belg. xxxvi. 89; Urban, Symb. Antill. ii. 25; Rendle in Cat. 
Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 114. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 833! Sierra Leone : Kundita, in the 
valley of the River Scarcies, Scott-Elliot, 5039! and without precise locality, Don ! 
Liberia; Monrovia, Naumann (ex Boeckeler). Lagos: Abeokut», Irving ! Niger 
Territory : Nupe, Barter, 1572! on the sandy banks of the River Nun, Vogel, 18+ 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2054! 
near Mombasa, Hildebrandt, 2045! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon River, Jardin ! Lower Congo: Lutete, 1000-1750 
ft., Hens, 78! 158! 248! Kisantu, Gillet, 6! 189! 988! Leopoldville, Luja, 38! 
62! and without precise locality, Smith, 19! 47! Angola: Ambaca, Welwitsch, 
7097! Pungo Andongo, 3500 ft., Welwitsch, 6908! 6932! Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 
7086! Ambriz, Welwitsch, 7035! 70358! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Lake Yipe, near Kilimanjaro, 2000 ft., 
Volkens, 2388! Usambara; banks of a stream near Tanga, Holst, 2045! Unyamwezi ; 
Tabora, Stuhlmann, 579! Nguru ? Wadiboma, Fischer, 629! Karagwe ; Bukoba, 
Stuhimaan, 995! 1610! Portuguese East Africa: in rice-fields, Quilimane, Scott ! 
British Central Africa : Nyasaland; Zomba Rock, Whyte! by the Karonga River, 
Scott ! Ngamiland; Lake River, Lugard, 10! 
A rice-field weed in all hot countries, 
