350 CLYI. CYPERACEH (CLARKE). | Cyperus. 
Upper Guinea. Seuegambia, Heudelot, 688! 788! Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! 
Don! Gold Coast, Burton & Cameron! Cameroons : Bipidde, Zenker, 899! and 
without precise locality, Braun, 16! 24! Fernando Po, Vogel, 218! Mann, 121! 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Begemeder; Senka Ber, 4200 ft., Schimper, 1552! 
and without precise locality, Schimper, 176! British East Africa: Jur; Jur 
Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2314! Niamniam ; at Nabambisso River, Schweinfurth, 
3023! Ruwenzori, 6000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 7590! Lake Losuguta, Gregory, 51! 
Ukamba ; Kitui, Hildebrandt, 2656! near Mombasa, Taylor ! 
Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, Don! Moller in Fl, Afr. Exsice, 
Conimbric., 118! Princes Island, Welwitsch, 70338! Gaboon : Munda; Sibange 
Farm, Soyaur, 326! Lower Congo: River Ntombe, near Lutete, 1500-1800 ft., 
Hens, A, 86! 255! 259! Kisantu, Gillet, 671! Angola: Ambaca; at Lake 
Canguele-Canganga, Welwitsch, 7095! Loanda; Welwitsch, 7047! 7048! 7054! 
Benguela, Menyharth, 202! 
South Central. Congo Free State : Monbuttu; Munza, Schweinfurth, 3506! 
Bangala, Demeuse, 339! Nyangwe, Pogge, 2582! Casselange, Pogge, 1580! River 
Lukassi, Pogge, 1570! 1571! 1572! 1573! Albertville (Tanganyika Region), Huy / 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Kirk! Schmidt, 66! German East Africa: 
Usambara; Amboui, Holst, 2764! Nderema, 2500 ft., Volkens, 123! Karagwe; 
Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 3728! Kavala Islands in Lake Tanganyika, Carson, 1 ! Porta- 
guese East Africa : Zambesi, Stewart ! British Central Africa : Nyasaland! Kondowe 
to Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte! near Umbaku River, Scott! between Matope 
and Lake Pamelombe, Scott! Zomba, 2800 ft., Whyte’ Masuka Plateau, 6500 it., 
Whyte! Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 50! Scott-Elliot, 8593! 
Also in South Africa, the Mascarene Islands, and in nearly all warm regions. 
Var. niger, C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 559. Spike- 
. lets black-chestnut-coloured. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper, 1255! 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Urungu, Fwambo, Carson, 14! 
69. C. nutans, Vahl, Hnum. ii. 363. Spikes long, rhachis often 
1-1} in. long. Spikelets 1-3 by 4, in., suberect, brown when dry. 
Glumes approximate, but in fruit hardly imbricated ; otherwise &s 
C’. distans, Linn. f.—Kunth, Enum. ii. 94; Boeck. in Linnea, xXXV- 594 ; 
C. B, Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 607, and in Durand & Schinz, 
Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 570; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 116. 
(. Jacquini, Fenzl in Denksch. Akad. Wissen. Wien, viii. 45, t- 1. 
C, eleusinoides, Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 137; Rendle 
in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 116. 
Lower Guinea. Angola; Pungo Andongo; banks of the River Lombe, 
3500 ft., Welwitsch, 6935! banks of the stream near Quilanga, Welwitsch, 6941 ! 
Frequent in India and China. F 
The spikelets being suberect in fruit, the spikes are in the typical plant 11 by { i» 
while in C. distans, Linn, f. (with divaricate spikelets) they are 1-2 in. broad. 
The spikes ave longer than those of C. eleusinoides, and the glumes not (or obseurely) 
mucronate ; otherwise the two are very closely allied. 
TU Gs eleusinoides, Kunth, Enum. ii. 39. Stems 1-3 ft. long, 
throwing out lateral shoots at the base; no elongate stolons see”. 
Spikes about 1 by } in., dense, cylindric, with obliquely spreading green 
or grey-brown spikelets. Spikelets 4 by } in., about 10-flowered. Glumes 
