390 CLYI. CYPERACEH (CLARKE). [ Mariscus. 
24. M. umbellatus, Vahl, Hnum. ii. 376 partly. Spikelets 
smaller, denser and more rigid than in I. sieberianus ; spikes }$ by } in. 
(or often short and nearly globose); in ripe fruit all the spikelets 
strongly deflexed; rays of umbel often (some of them) many times 
longer than the spikes; nut oblong or almost ellipsoid; otherwise as 
M. sieberianus.—Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 552; C. B. Clarke in 
Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 595; Durand & Schinz, Etudes 
Fl. Congo, i. 298 ; Urban, Symb. Antill. ii. 41; Rendle in Cat. Afr. 
Pl. Welw. ii, 121. MW. alternifolius, Vahl, Enum. ii. 376; Schumach. 
Beskr. Guin. Pl. 40; Kunth, Enum. ii. 126. MU. cylindristachyus, 
Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 65. Kyllinga umbellata, Rottb. Descr. et Ic. 18, 
t. 4, fig. 2, excl. some syns.; Linn. f. Suppl. 105. Cyperus ovularis, 
Boeck in Linnea, xxxvi. 376, var. a partly, not of Torrey. C. umbellatus, 
C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 296 (excl. the varieties), XXl. 
200 var. a partly; Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. u. 1343 
Boeck. in Engl. Jahrb. v. 91; Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot. v. 209; 
Boeck. in Eng]. Gazelle Reise, Bot. 15. : 
Upper Guinea. Senegal: Mbidjem, Thierry, 12! Upper Senegal, Lécard, 
77! 91! 102! 215 partly! Gambia, Mungo Park ! Sierra Leone, Smeathmann, 85! 
Vogel! Welwitsch, 7062! Cape Verde Isles, Bolle! Liberia: Monrovia, Naumann 
(ex Boeckeler). Ashanti: Akraful, Cummins, 29! Dahomey, Newton, 2! ao 
Territory: Nupe, Barter! Baikie! River Niger (Quorra), Vogel ! Mere 
Guinea, Jardin (ex Steudel). Cross River, Johnston! Camercons: Bipinee, 
Zenker, 897! d without precise locality, Preuss, 110! 753! Fernando Po, 
Barter, 1584! 4, 
Wile Land. Upper Sennar: Fazokl, Figari ! 
Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, Moller, 124! Princes Island, 
Welwitsch, 7063 ! 7064! Annobon Island, Burton ! Lower Congo, Hens, 100 ! 108° 
268! 317! 390! 398! Demeuse, 341! Stanley Pool, Luja, 16! Angola: Golungo 
Alto; Quibanga Forest, Welwitsch, 7006! Pungo Andonga; on the Preesidinm, 
Welwitsch, 7009 partly! Loanda, Welwitsch, 7102! and without precise locality, 
Welwitsch, 7008! 70088! 7159! 7165! i ad 
South Central. Congo Free State: Mukenge, Pogge, 1575! 1579! an 
without precise locality, Dewévre, 273! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Karagwe; Bukoba, Se 
1447! Lake Tanganyika, Boehm, 81! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Zombi 
Plains, 2500-3500 ft., Whyte ! 
Also in the Mascarene Islands and in Martinique. 
25. M. sublimis, C. B. Clarke in Durand &: Schinz, pit 
Fl. Afr. v. 594. Umbel simple; rays 7-10, up to 2} in. long. es 
up to ? by jin., very dense, pale grey ; spikelets in ripe fruit Agee 
those at the base of the spikelet) adpressed obliquely erect. Nut or! 
1 to a spikelet, ellipsoid, somewhat obovoid ; otherwise as I. agro 
—Killingia umbellata, P. Beauv. Fl. Owar. i. 91 t. 59. YP per! 
steudelianus, Boeck. in Flora, 1879, 556, not Boeck. in Linnea, aaa 
382. (. ovularis, Boeck. in Flora, 1879, 557, not Boeck. in Lip 
xxxvi. 376. 
: 508 ! 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 1 
1842 ! 
