Fimbristylis.] CLVI. CYPERACEE (CLARKE). 415 
Boeck. in Flora, 1860, 35), not of Vahl. Scirpus dichotomus, Linn. Sp. 
Pi. ed. ii. 74; Rottb. Descr. et Ic. 57, t. 13, fig. 1. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perrottet, 834! Lécard, 23! Niger Territory : 
Nupe ; banks of the River Niger, Barter, 1209! Bornu, Oudney, 6! 
Nile Land. Nubia, Zetourneux, 309A! Senvar, Hartmann! Dongola, 
Pfund, 617! Tuti Island, near Khartoom, Schweinfurth, 848! Kotschy, 328! 
Galabat: region of Matamma, Schweinfurth, 2042! Abyssinia: Sabra, Schimper, 
583! River Tacazze, Schimper, 691! 1577! and without precise locality, Schimper, 
267 in Herb. Paris! British East Africa: White Nile, Schweinfurth, |917! 
Ukamba; banks of the River Adi, Hildebrandt, 2624! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo; Stanley Pool, Demeuse ! Kimuenza, Gillet, 
1906 ! 
Mozamb, Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Mozambique, Peters, 8! Lower 
Zambesi; Shigogo, Kirk / Expedition Island, Kirk! British Central Africa: 
Zambesi Valley, near Boruma, Menyharth, 1065! Nyasaland; near Nsessi River, 
Scott ! near Karonga, Scott / 
Throughout the hot and warm temperate regions of the Old World and 
Australia, 
5. F. diphylla, Vahl, Enum. ii. 289. A pubescent, puberulous or 
glabrous annual. Stems tufted, 4-28 in. long. Leaves 4-2 the length 
of the stem, linear or rarely 3-1 in. broad. Umbel compound, of many 
(sometimes of few) spikelets; bracts 3-4, similar to the leaves, shorter 
or longer than the umbel. Spikelets solitary, 1-3 in. long, ellipsoid- 
lanceolate, many-flowered, straw-coloured, ferruginous, brown or much 
variegated with chestnut, terete. Fertile glumes concave, hardly keeled, 
acute, often minutely ciliate on the margins. Style longish, dilated at 
the base, flattened, villous on the margins; branches 2, linear. Nut 
obovoid, } the length of the glume, biconvex, white or somewhat 
yellowish, with 5-13 longitudinal ribs on each face —C. B. Clarke in 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 636, in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. 
V. 603, and in Dyer, FI. Cap. vii. 200; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost- 
Afr. C. 124; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 301; Urban, 
Symb, Antill. ii. 77; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 122. 
F. laxa, Vahl, Enum. ii. 292; Kunth, Enum. ii. 232. F. communis, 
Kunth, Enum. ii. 234 mainly; Benth. in Hook. Niger FI. 554; Ridley 
mM Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 150 partly. /. fuscata, Steud. Syn. 
Pl. Glum. ii, 112. F. debilis, Steud. lc. 109.  F. tertia, Steud. ex 
Jardin in Mém. Soc. Sc. Nat. Cherb. v. (1857) 299. F. polymorpha, 
k. in Vidensk. Meddel. Kjob. 1869, 141, 158, in Linnea, xxxvii. 
14 (excl. some synonyms), in Flora, 1879, 564, and in Engl. Gazelle 
Ise, Bot. 17; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 149. /'. squamulosa, 
Hochst. ex Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 15. Scirpus diphyllus, Retz. 
Obs. v. 15. J. annuus, Allioni, Fl. Pedem. ii. 277, t. 88, fig. 5; 
Desfont. Fl. Atlant. i. 51. 
U i eudelot! Leprieur/ Sierra Leone, Afzelius / 
ee vas os, Bae ee 3917 ! 5157! Welwitsch, 6991! 
French Guinea: Farana ; Scott-Elliot, 5855! Upper Volta, at Salaga, Krause / 
Niger Territory: Abob, aries, 131! Nupe, Barter, 1581! River Nun, Mann, 
1888! Old Calabar ; Robb! Ogurude, Holland, 275 ! Cameroons: Sanega, Zenker, 
438! Fernando Po, Vogel, 12! 
