Cyperus. | CLVI, CYPERACEH (CLARKE). 375 
Papyrus mossambicensis, Parl. ex Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. t. 59.— Papyrus, Bruce, 
Tray. v. Append. 1-15, t. 1. 
Nile Land. White Nile, Petherick! Brownell! Werne/ British East Africa: 
Gazelle River, Schweinfurth, 1154! Niamniam; at the River Bodumoh, Schwein- 
Surth, 3749 ! 
Mozamb, Dist. Zanzibar, Hildebrandt, 1193! German East Africa: Karagwe ; 
Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 1618! Portuguese East Africa ; Mozambique, Peters / banks of 
the River Shire at Shama, Scott / 
Also in the northern part of the Nile and in Palestine. See Thiselton- Dyer in 
Gard. Chron, iii. (1875), 78, 
This variety forms a transition from Cyperus into Mariscus, the spikelets 
showing a distinct tendency to fall off whote from above the two lowest empty glumes. 
Imperfectly known species. 
117. C. bulamensis, Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 19. Root fibrous. 
Stem 14 ft. long, slender. Leaves $ the length of the stem, slender. 
Umbel simple; rays 2 in. long. Spikes of 5-9 spikelets. Spikelets 
searcely 4 in. long, linear, slender, somewhat compressed. Glumes 
loosely imbricate, ovate, obtuse, 7—9-nerved, dusky straw-coloured. 
Nut 4 the length of the glume, triquetrous, linear, slender. 
Upper Guinea. Portuguese Guinea: Bissagos Islands ; Bulama Island. 
118. C. Cadamosti, Bolle ex Krause in Engl. Jahrb. xiv. 400. 
Cespitose. Stem 1 ft. high. Leaves rigid, flat, narrow-linear. Bracts 
1-2, a little longer than the rays. Spikes sessile, numerous, about 
6-flowered. Glumes acute, rufous with hyaline margins. 
Upper Guinea. Cape Verd Isles: near Porto Grande ; Krause, Schmidt. 
119. C. depauperatus, Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 34. Rhizome 
bulbous-woody. Stem 3 ft. high, acutely triquetrous. Leaves up to a 
foot long, flat, 3-nerved. Bracts 5-6, nearly all of them many times 
longer than the simple umbel. Rays of umbel 6-18, hardly exceeding 
in. long. Spikelets aggregated, very short, ovate, 3—-5-flowered. 
Glumes membranous, ovate, obtuse, 7—9-nerved, pale ferruginous. Nut 
triquetrous, rather obtuse, pale brown. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper (ex Steudel). 
Steudel inquires, “Is this a variety of C. ochreoides, Steud. ?” a species reduced 
above to C. JSenzelianus, Steud. 
120. C. dilatatus, Schumach. 4° Thonning, Beskr. Guin. Pl. 38. 
Root fibrous ; stem bearing stolons. Leaves lax. Umbel subcompound ; 
rays elongate ; bracts about 5, similar to the leaves. Spikelets alter- 
nate, somewhat remote, about 1 in. long with 18 flowers, linear, acute. 
Glumes lanceolate, concave, obtuse. 
Guinea. Thonning. 
_ 121. CG. flexifolius, Boeck. in Flora, 1879, 549. Root with purple 
fibres. Stems often 2 together, erect, firm, slender, 10-5 in. high, 
scarcely .. in. in diam., triangular, grooved, striate, several-leaved at 
