Cyperus. | CLVI. CYPERACEH (CLARKE). 349. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal: in damp places in the Wallo district, Roger, 68! 
aud without precise locality, Lepriewr, 3! Senegambia: Galam, Heudelot, 128! 
aid without precise locality, Heudelot, 328! Gambia, Mungo Park! Gold Coast : 
Accra, Vogel, 13! Niger Territory: Nupe, Barter, 1570! 
Nile Land. Kordofin: around ponds, Kotschy, 50! Steuduer, 909! Eritrea! 
Gaaba, in a lava valley, Schweinfurth, 1670! Abyssinia: near Gapdia, Schimper, 
822! near Gafta, Schimper, 1208! Tacazze Valley, Schimper, 1735! Goelleb, 
Schimper, 2155! and without precise locality, Schimper, 217! 437! 855! Hilde- 
brandt, 365! 366! British East Africa: Kich district, at Ador Village, Petherick ! 
Jar; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 1984! ser. iii, 192! Kamasia, Gregory, 63! 
Kikumbuliyu; Ngomene, Scott-Elliot, 6227 ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola; Loanda, 1000 ft., Welwitsch, 7029! 7031! 7078! 
Benguela, Welwitsch, 6894! Pungo Andongo, 3500 ft., Welwitsch, 6909! 6909z ! 
Huilla, 5000 ft., Welwitsch, 6895 ! Namaqualand, Schinz, 388! Dammaraland, Hen ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Taylor! German East Africa: Unyamwezi ; 
Kezeh (Tabora), Speke &§ Grant! Kowanda, Fischer, 6384! and without precise 
locality, Stuhlmann, 3467 ! Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi ; Tete, Kirk ! 
British East Africa: N yasaland ; Namasi, Cameron, 12! and w.thout precise locality, 
Buchanan, 6244! Rhodesia ; Tamasetze, Holub! Mapani Pan, Holub! Gashuma 
Flats, Holud ! Boruma, on tie Zambesi, Menyharth ! 
Also in India, Australia, and nearly the whole of America. 
This species has been greatly confused with C. wncinatus, Poiret, probably by 
reason of noticing the recurved points of the glumes instead of the more important 
characters. 
68. C. distans, Linn. f. Suppl. 103. Glabrous, large or medium 
sized. Stolons elongate, hardening into a stout horizontal rhizome, but 
many plants flower the first year. Stems 1-3 ft. long. Leaves often 
as long (or 2 as long) as the stem, }-} in. broad. Umbel compound, 
usually open 8-12 in. in diam., sometimes congested or depauperated ; 
bracts usually overtopping the umbel, similar to the leaves. Spikelets 
usually spicate (rhachis of the spike }—2 in. long), }—1} by 31; in., almost 
acicular, reddish, 10-12-flowered, in fruit divaricate at right angles; 
rhachilla very slender, not winged, appearing zigzag in the lower half 
where the glumes have fallen. Glumes very remote, oblong-elliptic, 
obtuse. Nut 4-8 the length of the glume, oblong or narrow-ellipsoid, 
trigonous, dusky-black, style much shorter than the nut ; branches 3, 
shortly exserted.—Beauv. Fl. Owar. i. 35, t. 20; Kunth, Enum. ii. 93 ; 
Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 551; Boeck. in Linnwa, xxxv. 612; C. B. Clarke 
in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 607, in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. 
v. 558, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 178; Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
ser. 2, Bot. ii. 138 partly; Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot. v. 208; 
K. Schum. in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 120, excl. var. 8; Engl. Hoch- 
gebirgsfi. Trop. Afr. 142; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 286 ; 
De Wild. & Durand in Comptes-rendus Soc. bot. Belg. xxxvi. 88 ; Urban, 
Symb. Antill. ii. 32; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 116. C. elatus, 
Presl in Oken, Isis, xxi. 271; Boeck. in Flora, 1879, 551, not of Linn. 
C. squamulatus, Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 49. C. dissolutus, Boeck. in 
Flora, 1879, 555, not of H. B. & K. 
