422 CLYI. CYPERACEH (CLARKE). [ Fimbristylis. 
with its small style-base; branches 3. Nut hardly } the length of the 
glume, obovoid, white or yellowish, smooth or verrucose, but hardly 
transversely trabeculate—K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 124; 
C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 610. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Gazelle River, Schweinfurth, 1144! 1155! 
1236! 
Examples of F. miliacea and F. quinqguangularis occur with very short leaves; 
the present plant differs from both by the outer cells of the nut being very shortly 
elliptic (almost round) so that the nut does not appear marked by series of 
bars. 
18. F. scabrida, Schumach. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 32. Glabrous or 
very nearly so. Stems 12-16 in. long, tufted, thickened at the base by 
the black torn leaf-sheaths, at the top obscurely compressed, sometimes 
scabrous, sometimes quite smooth. Leaves }$ the length of the stem, 
up to }-} in. broad. Umbel simple, 2-6 in. in diam., with 12-40 
spikelets ; bracts 3-4, short, sometimes up to 1-1} in. long. Spikelets 
+ by 4 in,, ellipsoid, 4-12-flowered, pale chestnut-marked. Glumes 
ovate, acute, mucronate. Style nearly as long as the nut, glabrous, 
deciduous with the narrow-pyramidal base ; branches 3 (or 2 occasionally 
seen in the upper part of the spikelet). Nut less than } the length of 
the glume, obovoid, straw-yellow, verrucose, not (or obscurely) traps- 
versely barred.—C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. 
v. 609; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 303. /. Barteri and 
F. mucronata, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 33, 41. 
Upper Guinea. Upper Senegal, Lécard, 120! Guinea, Thonning! Lagos: 
bara Road, Lagos Government 50! Niger Territory: Nupe, Barter, 1578! 
South Central. Congo Free State: Monbuttu; at the River Welle, Sehwein- 
furth, 3517! 
19. F. complanata, Link, Hort. Berol. i. 292. Glabrous. Stems 
8—24 in. long, at the top quadrangular and much flattened, i.e. usually 
with 2 sharp edges and a rib on each of the flat faces. Leaves usually 
3—8 in. long, {—+ in. broad, suddenly narrowed at the tip. Umbel up 
to 4-5 in. in diam., with 180 spikelets, commonly with 30-70 spikelets, 
also small examples with 12—30 spikelets are not rare; bracts 2, — 
erect, usually 1—2 in. long, similar to the leaves and similarly suddenly 
narrowed at the top. Spikelets } by ,1, in., brown or chestnut-coloured. 
Glumes ovate, obtuse or acute. Style as long as the nut, glabrous, 
deciduous together with the pyramidal style-base ; branches 3. Nut 
very small, hardly } the length of the glume, obovoid, straw-coloured ; 
outermost cells short-elliptic and transverse, but the nut hardly striate 
or transversely barred.—Kunth, Enum. ii. 228; A. Rich. Tent. 
Abyss. ii. 505; Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii, 150; ©. * 
Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 646, in Durand & Schinz, Conspect- 
Fl. Afr. v. 602, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 202; K. Schum. in Engl- 
Pfl. Ost-Afr. v. 124; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, }. SOv 
Urban, Symb. Antill. ii. 81; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 12% 
