416 CLVI. CYPERACEH (CLARKE). [ Fimbristyls. 
Nile Land. Upper Sennar; Fazokl, Kotschy, 575! Abysssinia: Begemeder * 
Schimper, 1250! British East Africa: Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 1454! ser. 
iii. 196! Jur Ewet (Awet), Schweinfurth, 1765! Bongo; Addai, Schweinfurth, 
1446! Ruwenzori; Kasamaga, 5000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 7539! Losuguta, Gregory, 
51! Ukamba, 4000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 2344! 6476 ! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Gaboon River, Mann! Munda, Soyaua, 335 ! 
354! Lower Congo: Kisantu, Gillet, 416! 524! 625! 1317! Leopoldville, Luja, 
67! Kinchasss, Luja, 177! and without precise locality, Smith! Loango, Jardin 
Angola: Pungo Andongo district, Welwitsch, 68238 ! 6827 partly ! 6830, ¢ anil p! 
6832! 6834! 6835 B! 7169! Ambriz, Welwitsch, 7002! Golungo Alto district, 
Welwitsch, 7017! 7019! Awbaca district, Welwitsch, 7018! 
South Central. Congo Free State, Dupuis, 52! Demeuse, 154! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Boivin / Hildebrandt, 1060! German East 
Africa: Zanguebar, Kirk, 94! Usambara; Derema (Nderema), Holst, 2231! Kili- 
manjaro, 6000 ft., Johnston! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Fort Hill, on 
the Tanganyika Plateau, Whyte! Kondowe to Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte 
Zomba Plains, 2500-3000 ft., Whyte! Zomba Rock, Whyte! Shire Highlands, 
Scott-Elliot, 8573 B! Buchanan, 11! 
Very common and widely spread throughout the hot and warm-temperate regions 
of the world. 
Some closely allied plants, esteemed mere forms of F. diphylla by Kunth and 
Boeckeler, are here regarded as distinct ; even thus narrowed down, our F. diphylia, 
has 140 names. It should, moreover, be understood that F. diphylla is so close 
to the preceding F. dichotoma that different cyp2rologists sort the material, as 
between these two, differently. The examples from Tropical Africa, above referred 
to F. diphylla, do not match, so that the species might be further subdivided. 
6. FE. pilosa, Vahl, Enum. ii. 290. Stem hairy at the top. Umbel 
of 6-20 spikelets, nearly simple. Spikelets 1 in. wide, cuboid. Glumes 
quadrate, often pubescent on the back. Style 2-fid. Nut obovoid, 
biconvex, shining white, smooth, somewhat reticulate but not ribbed ; 
otherwise as F’. diphylla.—Schumach. Beskr, Guin. Pl. 32; Kunth, 
Enum. ii. 235 in note (i.e. his plant “spicis robustioribus ellipticis 
obtusis”); Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 122. F. castanea, var. 
thonningiana, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 19. F. communis, Ridley 0 
Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 150 partly ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pal. 
“lee C.124. Scirpus pilosus, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. v. 101, not of 
etz. 
Upper Guinea. Without precise locality, Thonning / Isert! Hofmanbarg ! 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Mombasa, Taylor. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; Pedras de Guinga, Welwitsch, 
6827 partly ! 
In this genus, no name has been so misapplied and confused both in the text- 
books and in the herbaria as F. pilosa. The hairy forms (or varieties) of 
F. diphylla are numerous and abundant, especially in Malaya; and _ these = 
often named in herbaria, probably. by guess from the name, F. pilosa, Vahl 
(which they are not); and this is the plant reduced correctly by Kunth, 
Boeckeler, &c. to F. diphylla, Vahl. The true F. pilssa, Vahl has not ep 
much collected, and differs much, essentially in the non-trabeculate nut. The 
name £, pilosa, K. Schumann, is merely a book synonym for the earlier F. africana, 
Durand & Schinz, below, a species of another section. 
