386 CLVI. CYPERACEE (CLARKE). | Mariseus. 
Elliot, 8461! Mount Sochi, Scott-Elliot, 8574! Zomba, Whyte and McClounie! 
Namasi, Cameren, 93! 95! 
Also in Extratropical South Africa. 
The plants collected by Cameron (93) have very narrow leaves, the spikelets and 
glumes very obtuse, and may indicate a separable species. 
16. M. concinnus, (. B. Clarke in Journ. Bot. 1896, 224. 
Glabrous. Stems 8-18 in. long, slender, at the top trigonous and 
smooth, at the base oblong-thickened by membranous leaf-sheaths. 
Leaves $ the length of the stem, 5}, in. broad, flaccid. Umbel-rays 
2-5, 1-2 in. long; bracts 3, similar to the leaves, lowest 3 in. long. 
Spikes of 2-8 spikelets, chocolate-red. Spikelets 3 by $ in., turgid, 
slightly compressed, perfecting 6-10 nuts; rhachilla winged, disarticu- 
lating above the two lowest empty glumes. Glumes obtuse, with 9 
slender ribs, erect in fruit, not keeled. Nut 4 the length of the glume. 
broadly oblong, trigonous, black-red, dotted. Style rather shorter than 
the nut; branches 3, linear, exserted. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: River Nagut, at Lake Elemeteita, 6500 ft., 
Gregory, 46! Giryama and Shimba (Tsimba) Mountains, Taylor ! 
17. M. bulbocaulis, Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 102. Glabrous. 
Stems 4-6 in. long, slender, at the top trigonous and smooth, at the 
base ovoid-thickened and enclosed by brown scarious leaf-sheaths. Leaves 
3 the length of the stem, ;}, in. broad. Head of 3-2 ovoid spikes nearly 
fused into 1 dense head }-} in. in diam., pale straw-coloured, more e 
less purple-spotted ; bracts 3-4, similar to the leaves, dilated at the 
base, spreading, the lowest up to 2-3 in. long. Spikelets $ in. long, 
ovoid-oblong in fruit, ripening 1 nut only. Glumes ovate, ae 
hardly acute, thin, with 5-7 obscure ribs. Nut } the length of t \e 
glume, broadly ellipsoid, somewhat obovoid, trigonous, black. nae 
shorter than the nut; branches 3, linear, long.— MV. bulbosus, pee) 
Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 62. Kyllinga bulbosa, Steud. in Flora, 1842, 597, 
not of Beauv. Cyperus bulbocaulis, Boeck. in Linnea, XXXV1. 302 5 
Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 144, not C. budbocaulis, Boeck. 10 
Linnea, xxxviii. 408. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: Samen; on hills near Enderder, Schimper, 579! and 
without precise locality, Schimper, 229! = 
Var. atrosanguineus, C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect Fl. Afr. v- 585. 
Spikelets chestnut-red or chestnut-black, elongated.— UU. atrosanguineus, erent 
A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii, 490. M. Hochstetteri, Walp. Ann. oe i 
M. plateilema, var. atrosanguinea, Steud. Syn. Pl, Glum. ii. 62. Cyperus 0 z 
gatus, var. atrosanguineus, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 337; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop: 
Afr. 143 partly. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: Samen; Enjedcap, Schimper, 575! Begemeder 5 neat 
Selamuko, Schimper, 1308! near Gafat, Schimper ! di 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; on rocks at Nduran®, 
Scott-Elliot, 8477 ! 
18. M. plateilema, Steud. in Flora, 1842, 596, and Syn. abies 
ii. 62, character emended. TBracts more dilated at the base. Spike 
