402 CLVI. CYPERACEE (CLARKE). [ Mariscus. 
55. M. pseudopilosus, Durand & De Wild. in Comptes-rendus 
Soc. bot. Belg. xxxvi. 89. Glabrous except the rhachis of the spikes. 
Stem at the top } in. in diam., triquetrous, almost 3-winged. Umbel 
compound or simple ; primary rays 5-7, up to 3 in. long; bracts 5-8, 
lowest up to 12 by }in.; bracts at the top of the primary rays up to 
14-2 in. long. Spikes subcorymbose-digitate, 1 in. long, of 10-30 
spikelets; rhachis densely short-hairy. Spikelets } by 3’; in., deflexed 
in fruit, 10—12-flowered, dirty straw-coloured, deciduous in one plece 
above the two lowest empty glumes. Fertile glumes remote, elliptic, 
obtuse, concave, Nut 2 the length of the glume, ellipsoid, trigonous, 
black. Style $.the length of the nut; branches 3, linear. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Bingila, Dupuis ! 
This species, not only in the hairy rhachis of the spikes but in inflorescence and 
general aspect remarkably simulates Cyperus pilosus, Vahl. 
Imperfectly known species. 
56. M. microcephalus, Presi, Rel. Hank. i. 182. Large, with 
long spongy leaves and bracts. Umbel compound; spikes 1n dense. 
globose brown heads. Spikelets narrowly linear, terete, straight, pai 
fecting 4-14 nuts. Glumes rather remote, obtuse. Style 3-fid. Nut 
narrowly obovoid.—C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 624, and 
in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 590. Cyperus dilutus,. 
Vahl, Enum. ii. 357; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 354; K. Schum. 1n_ 
Engl. Pfi. Ost-Afr. C. 122. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro, ex. Schumann, 
Also in India, Malaya, South China, and Mauritius. 
Not seén by me from Africa ; the two Mauritian examples may have been imported 
with rice.. The Kilimanjaro examples of K, Schumann have not been seeD, and 
do not feel at all sure that they were YZ. microcephalus. 
57. M. foliosissimus, Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 65. pase 
fibrous. Stems tufted, 1 ft. long, at the top triquetrous and es ; 
Leaves longer than the steim, narrowly linear, many-nerved, @ pee 
scabrous on the margins. Umbel simple; rays 5-7, very pexie | 
divided at their tips into few-flowered densely-aggregated heads ; brac 
numerous, very long, similar to the leaves. Spikelets ovate, comp? ten 
2-4-flowered, Glumes ovate, obscurely nerved, very shortly mucrona . 
green-brown, a oe 
Upper Guinea. ‘Senegal ? “Lénormand (ex Steudel). 
6. TORULINIUM, Desyv. in Hamilt, Prod, Ind. Occid. 1825, 16. 
Spikelets with 4 or more nuts, the rhachilla breaking up into as aie 
joints as there are nuts} each joint (by the aid of the wings and th 
