Fimbristylis. | CLVI. CYPERACEH (CLARKE). 418 
831! 832! 836! Upper Senegal, ZLécard, 92! 105! Senegambia: Galam, 
Heudelot, 330! 388! Cape Verd, St. Hilaire! Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Scott- 
Elliot, 5181! Liberia; Grand Bassa, Ansell! Pandiaki, Ansell! _ Dahomey ; 
Newton, 6! 33! Bornu, Vogel, 22! Lagos, Millen, 105! Niger Territory : 
Nupe, Baikie! Barter, 1576! Lokaja district, Richardson, 5! Lower Niger; 
Aboh, Barter, 356! Attah, Vogel, 91! Cameroons: Cameroon River, Wann, 
778! Batanga, Bates, 105! Yaunde, Zenker & Staudt, 554! Zenker, 1504! 
Wile Land. Kordofan, Pfund, 28! 638! Kotschy, 15! Darfur, Pfund, 
605! 639! Galabat, Schweinfurth, 2030! 2031! 2032! Abyssinia, Schimper, 
232! 363! 846 partly! 1318! 1590! 2165! Hildebrandt, 356! Quartin- 
Dillon, 125! Somaliland, Mrs. Lort-Phillips! Nile Sources, Sabatier! British 
East Africa: Kitch; Ador, Petherick! Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2122! 
Ruwenzori, Scott-Elliot, 7624! Uganda, Scott-Elliot, 7388! Mount Kenia, 
Gregory, 87! Ukamba, Hildebrandt, 2655 partly’! Machakos, Scott-Elliot, 
6383! Ongalea Mountains, Gregory, 14! Tani, Gregory, 97! Mombasa, 
Boivin! Hildebrandt, 2023! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo, Smith! Hens, 13! Kisantu, Gillet, 588! 
Angola; Welwitsch, 6826! 6984! 70128! 7152! 7161! Loanda, Welwitsch, 6983 ! 
6985! 6986! 6996! 6998B! and 6998c! Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch, 6822! 
6823! 6831! 6833! 6998! Huilla, Welwitsch, 6946! 6953! 6954! 6956! 
6957! Ambriz, Welwitsch, 7001! Amboland; Schinz, 372! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Hildebrandt, 1059! 1200! 7059! German 
East Africa : Usambara; Tanga, Holst, 2006! 2080! Ambeni, Holst, 2743! 
Unyamwezi ; Mininga, Speke & Grant, 166! Portuguese East Africa: Mozam- 
bique, Peters! Kirkson ! Kongoni River, Kirk / Lower Zambesi, between 
Lupata and Tete, Kirk / Shupanga, Kirk / British Central Africa: Boruma, 
Menyharth, 5554 partly! 55583! 660! 664! Nyasaland; Shire Highlands, 
Scott-Elliot, 8573! Buchanan, 43! and without precise locality, Buchinan, 
462! 1194! Ngamiland; between Koobie (Kobis) and North Shaw Valley, 
Baines ! Kwebe, Lugard, 164! 
Also common in South Africa and the Mascarene Islands. Rare in Tropical 
America, 
_ This is one of the commonest Cyperaceae of Tropical Africa; and varies greatly 
%™ size, development, hairiness, and colour of glumes. The ordinary hairy form 
4s also frequently put with various species of Bultostylis. The present (and 2 
following) species, while approaching Bulbostylis in habit, show no approaci to the 
Style-base of Bulbostylis. 
Var. oligostachya, C. B. Clarke. Small and weak, hairy or glabrate. Stems 1-4 in. 
Ing, bearing 1 or 2 spikelets only. Nut obovoid, subsessile, hardly 4 the size of the 
nut of typical F. exilis ; style deciduous, carrying the style-base with it, so that no 
discoloured button is left behind on the nut, : 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: Adowa, Schimper, 299 partly! Somaliland; 
Abdallah, Keller, 83! 89! Thuja Steppe, Keller, 86! Ogaden Steppe, Keller, 91! 
Warandab, Keller, 96! 
ll. F. Hansii, C. B. Clarke. Nut rather small, pallid, smooth, 
hot transversely wavy ; otherwise as /. exilis.—F. ewilis, var. levinux, 
€. B. Clarke in Darand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 605; Durand 
«& Schinz, Etudes FI. Congo, i. 302. 
Lower Guinea. Loango; Soyzux, 151! Lower Congo: Stanley Pool and 
Lutete, Hens, 62! 67! 74! 75! 239! Demeuse ! 
South Central. Cungo Free State: Bolongo Cataracts, Luja, 134! 
