Bd4 CLYI. CYPERACEH (CLARKE). | Cyperus. 
subcorymbose ; bracts 6-7, up to 8 in. long, similar to the leaves. 
Spikelets 1-4 by 4 in., compressed, 8—14-flowered. Glumes strongly 
striated, pale ferruginous with green keel, obtuse with a microscopic 
mucro. 
Wile Land, British East Africa: Taita; Ndi Mountain, in dry sand on rocks, 
Scott-Elliot, 6284! 
This plant is, in a word, C. bulbosus on a very large scale. The pale ferru- 
ginous-green colour of the heads is not to be seen in any of the numerous examples 
of C. bulbosus. 
78. C. blysmoides, Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 102. Stem, basal 
bulb, and leaves, exactly as in depauperated examples of C’. bulbosus. 
Enflorescence not at all umbel-like, a simple narrow-oblong spike of 6 
spikelets; bracts hardly any. Spikelets } by ;, in., 3—5-flowered, 
chestnut-red ; otherwise as C. bulbosus.—C. B. Clarke in Durand & 
Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 550. OC. bulbosus, var. spicatus, Boeck. in 
Linnea, xxxvi. 301; Martelli, Fl. Bogos. 90; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. 
Trop. Afr. 143. Hemichlena bulbosa, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fi. 
Abyss. ii, 509. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Bogos, Steudner, 932! Abyssinia: near Enderdert in 
the: district of Shoata, Schimper, 580! Gondar, Héricourt / Adowa, Quartin-Dillon 
& Petit / and without precise locality, Schimper, 17! 188! British East Africa: 
Gilgil River, 6000-7000 ft., Scott-Hiliot, 6650! 
79. ©. Stuhlmanni, (’. B. Clarke in Durand &: Schinz, Conspect. Fi. 
Afr, v.578. Glabrous. Stem 12 in. long, slender bearing bulbs (A. Schu- 
mann). Leaves % the length of the stem, } in. broad, flaccid. Head 1, 
dense, of 15 dark-red-brown spikelets ; bracts 4, like the leaves, much 
exceeding the head. Spikelets 1} by ;1, in., about 8-flowered. Glumes 
rounded on the back, very strongly striate, obtuse. Style-branches 3, 
much exserted, dark-red.—C. Stuhlmannii, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost- 
Afr, C. 118. : 
Mozamb Dist. German East Africa: Karagwe; Kafuro, 4400 ft., Stuhl- 
mann, 1826! 
The examples are young, so that it cannot be stated positively whether this is a 
€yperus ora Mariscus. Boeckler marked it Cyp. leptophyllus, var., i.e. a Mariscus. 
The authentic piece at Kew shows a short slender rhizome only ; the bulbils men- 
tioned by K.Schumann make it almost certainly a Cyperus near C. bulbosus. 
80. C. microbolbos, (. B. Clarke. Glabrous. Stolons $-% in. 
long, capillary, with thin yellow-brown scales, bearing near their ends 
bulbs ;', in. in diam. Stems 3 in. high, rising from a bulb, slender. 
Leaves twice as long as the stems, setaceous, weak. Inflorescence of 1 
spike or an umbel of 2 spikes, the ray } in. long; bracts 2, exceeding 
the umbel, setaceous, weak, Spike of 3-5 loosely arranged spikelets. 
Spikelets 4 by } in., compressed, with parallel sides, chestnut-coloured, 
24-flowered ; rhachilla hardly winged. Glumes_ boat-shaped, ovate, 
the yellow keel excurrent in a short green mucro. Stamens 3 ; anthers 
linear-vblong, apiculate. Nut 4 the length of the glume (exclusive of 
