744 CLVI, CYPERACEE (CLARKE) | Cyperus. 
not of Linn. C. sylvestris, Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 134 ; 
Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 112. CC. Buchholzii, Boeck. Cyp. 
Nove, i. 3. C. Buettneri, Boeck. Cyp. Nove, i. 3, and in Verhandl. 
Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxxi. 71. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: Aburi, Johnson! Lagos: near Addo, Millen, 
182! Old Calabar, Holland,101! Cameroons: Efulen, Bates, 283! Ebea (Edea ?) 
Falls, Dinklage, €40! Yaunde, Zenker & Staudt, 798! and without precas 
locality, Preuss, 92! 348! Miss Kingsley! Buchholz! Braun, 26! Fernando Po, 
Vogel! 
Lower Guinea. Princes Island, Mann! Newton! Spanish Gaboon: Mount 
John, Kongui River, Mann, 1895! Gaboon: Sibange, Buettner, 9! Lower Congo, 
Hens, 356! Angola: Pungo Andongo ; in marshy places, Welwitsch, 6942! 6943! 
6944! 6898! Golungo Alto; banks of streams on the mountains of Alto Queta, 
Welwitsch, 7071! 
Common throughout the tropics, including Madagascar, but no specimen from 
East Africa. 
N.B. No part of C. elegans, Linn., neither description nor herbarium examples, 
refers to this species. 
58. C. glaucophyllus, Boeck. Cyp. Nove, i. 4.  Glabrous. 
Rhizome oblique. Stem nearly 3 ft. long, at the top trigonous. 
Leaves 3 the length of the stem, } in. broad. Umbel 10 in. in aia 
compound, with slender flexuose rays; bracts overtopping the umbel, 
similar to the leaves. Spikelets 6-1 together, }—} by ;/;—-;'; in., brown, 
compressed, 12—16-flowered. Glumes striate, minutely mucronate. 
Style nearly as long as the nut; branches 3, linear. Nut $ as long as 
the glume, oblong-obovoid, black.—C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, 
Conspect. FI. Afr. v. 564; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 120. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Shire Highlands, 
Buchanan, 24! : 
The spikelets are said by Boeckeler to be solitary ; so some of them are, a6 ™ 
very commonly the case in the group of C. diffusus ; but the ultimate te ran 
is not spicate (as in the subgenus Choristachue) ; the final umbellule has some of 1 
raylets with one spikelet only. 
09. ©. Baroni, (. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 289. As 
up to 5 ft. high, at the top trigonous. Leaves 3 the length of oa 
stem, up to } in. broad, somewhat 3-nerved. Umbel geen teh 
8-14 in. in diam., with innumerable spikes; bracts overtopping : 
umbel, similar to the leaves. Spikelets 3-5 together, 1} by - ae 
compressed, brown, 6-12-flowered. Glume ovate, green, 5-nerve ie 
the back, usually very minutely pubescent near the _excurrent eee 
Nut 3-3 the length of the glume, small, ellipsoid. Style ae: 
branches 3, longish_—C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspec ee 
Afr. v. 550. C. Mannii, K. Schum. in Holst, Exsice. 3385. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Lutindi, Holst, ny 
Britisb Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Kondowe to Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Wage’ 
and without precise locality, Buchanan, 647 ! 
Common in Madagascar. 
