” 
Cyperus. | CLVI, CYPERACEH (CLARKE). 353 
arising from a bulb, 4-12 in. long, very slender. Leaves numerous, 
longer than the stem, at the base % in. broad, but the upper half very 
narrow and whip-like. Umbel contracted (rays usually not exceeding 
t-¥ in. long), irregular subcorymbose (i.e. the lowest ray often J- in. 
below the others); bracts 3-6, lower much exceeding the umbel, with 
whip-like ends as the leaves. Spikelets 4-12 in a spike, rather loosely 
spicate, } by ;,-,)5 in., compressed, red, 8—26-flowered; rhachilla 
62. C. bulbiferus, Dietr. Sp. Pl. ii. 324. C. rotwndus, Kunth, Enum. 
_. Upper Guinea. Senegal, Roger / Perrottet, 883! Cape Verd Isles: St. 
Nicolao, Bolle ! 
Nile Land. Nubia: Wady O-Mareg, Schweinfurth, 406! Hor Tamanib, near 
Suakin, Lord / Abyssinia : in cultivated places near Gursarfa, in the Tacazze 
Valley, 3000—4.000 ft., Schimper, 2238! and without precise locality, Salt! 
Schimper, 96! 1250! Somaliland, Mrs. Lort-Phillips / Keller, 79! 82! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo? Kimuenza, Gillet / Angola: Loanda ; sandy 
shores near the mouth of the River Cuanza, Welwitsch, 7073! near the sea at Zamba 
Grande and Cabo Lombo, Welwitsch, 7074! Mossamedes: near Cavalheiros, Wel- 
witsch, 6852 ! 
Also in Egypt, Arabia, India and North Australia. 
76. C. usitatus, Burchell, Trav. S. Afr. i. 417 in note. Bulbs 
(whence spring the stems) } in. or more in diam., coat scarious shining 
chestnut-brown; otherwise nearly as (. budbosus.—Kunth, Enum. 
u. 107; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 511; C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xxi. 176 (excl. syn. C. semitrifidus; Schrad.), in Durand & Schinz, 
Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 581, in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 179, and in Bull. Herb, 
iss. iv, Append. iii. 31. 
Lower Guinea. Hereroland: Omaruru, Schinz, 523! Amboland: between 
Olukonda and Uukuambi, Rautanen, 20. 
Frequent in Sonth Africa. 
77, ©. grandibulbosus, (. B. Clarke. Glabrous. Bulb shortly 
below the base of the stem, more than } in. in diam., with a black hard 
Coat. Stem 22 in. long, rather stout, striate, at the top trigonous and 
Smooth. Leaves longer than the stem, 4—} in. broad. Umbel reduced 
to a dense compound head, 1 in. in diam. of 30 spikelets, at the base 
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