Lleocharis. | CLVI. CYPERACEE (CLARKE). 411 
H. palustris, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvl. 466 partly, i.e. the African 
examples with 3-fid style; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 149 partly ; 
Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. Append ii. 104. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Tigre; marshes near Adowa, Schimper, 915! Shireh 
Province, Quartin-Dillon! Samen; Enjedcap, Schimper, 1331! Begemeder ; 
Begai Meda, Schimper, 1213! and without precise locality, Schimper, 828! British 
East Africa: marshes in Mau district, 8000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6931! foot of Mount 
Kenia at Ndoro, Gregory 78! River Harrington, Gregory, 53! 
Imperfectly known species. 
15. E. naumanniana, Boeck. in Engl. Jahrb. v. 92. A very 
slender flaccid olive-coloured water-plant, proliferously branched, 1} ft. 
long. Stems copious and numerous, branches nearly capillary, clustered, 
terete or somewhat compressed, with septate nodes, often sterile ; 
Sheaths of the branches slender, membranous, narrow, yellow, perfectly 
glabrous in the mouth. Spikelet often proliferous from the base, 
very slender in flower, narrowly acuminate, linear, about } in. long, 
1-flowered. Glumes 2, erect, scarcely unequal, thin membranous, 
Sheathing, acuminate linear, 1-nerved, white ferruginous lineolate. 
Hypogynous bristles 0. Nut small, hardly’ more than 4 the length 
of the glume, broadly oval, narrowed at the base, triangular, angles 
Somewhat obtuse sticking out, faces convex tessellated, brown, crowned 
by the persistent conical style-base constricted above the nut.—Boeck. 
in Engl. Gazelle Reise, Bot. 16. 
Upper Guinea. Liberia : Monrovia, Naumann (ex Boeckeler). 
In spite of the absence of hypogynous bristles and the style-base constricted 
above the nut, this plant would appear from the obvious characters nearly allied to 
Seipus submersus, Sauv. cf. C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 653. 
9. FIMBRISTYLIS, Vahl; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii, 1048, 
excluding sect. Oncostylis. 
Spikelets of many perfect flowers, imperfect at the top, two lowest 
glumes empty. Fertile glumes in 3 or more spirals; or (Sect. Abild- 
gaardia) the lower distichous. Hypogynous bristles). Stamens 3-1, 
anterior ; anthers linear-oblong, muticous. Style 2-fid or 3-fid, some- 
times villous, sometimes glabrous ; style-base enlarged, distinct from 
the nut by a constriction or a line, continuous with and caducous with 
the style, not discoloured. Nut trigonous or biconvex, according as the 
style-branches are 3 or 2.—Glabrous or hairy. Rhizome 0, or not } in. 
ong. Leaves generally present, sometimes 0. Inflorescence a terminal 
umbel, simple, compound or congested, or a single terminal spikelet. 
Species 125, in nearly all hot and war.n-tempe rate areas, especially plentiful in 
uth-east Asia and North-east Australia. 
*ELEOCHAROIDES,—Stem with 1 spikelet only, or with 
% bya rare accident ; lower fertile glumes in many spirals, 
Not subdistichous. Style2fid . + -°- + « LF polytrichoides, 
