Fimbristylis. | CLVI, CYPERACEE (CLARKE). 423 
F. autumnalis, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 38. Scirpus complanatus, 
Retz. Obs. v. 14. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: by the stream Mai Fra, near Adowa, Schimper, 148 ! 
858! around Assai, Quartin-Dillon ! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Stanley Pool, Demeuse, 145! Angola: Purgo 
Andongo; banks of streams near Luxillo, Welwitsch, 6835! Huilla; near Eme, 
Welwitsch, 6971! 
The typical form of this species is common in nearly all tropical and subtropical 
areas; but the varieties, subspecies, and allied species of this are numerous, aud 
variously arranged by authors. 
20. F. obtusifolia, Kunth, Enum. ii. 240. Glabrous. Stems 
4-16 in. long. Leaves 2-8 by 11 in., very rigid, in the dried state 
concayo-convex, suddenly narrowed at the top. Umbel compound, the 
spikelets generally in capitate clusters (2-5 together) on the ultimate rays, 
but the umbel is not rarely very close or appearing as one dense head ; 
bracts 3-2, lowest 3-21 in. long, similar to the leaves. Spikelets 4 in. 
long, ellipsoid, dense. Glumes ovate, obtuse. Style nearly as long as 
the nut, glabrous, deciduous together with the pyramidal style-base ; 
branches 3, at least in the lower flowers. Nut hardly 2 the length of 
the glume, obovoid, trigonous, dark-coloured, not longitudinally ribbed. 
—Benth. in Hook. Niger FI. 554; C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, 
Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 608, in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 203; Durand & Schinz, 
Etudes FI. Congo, i. 303; Urban, Symb. Antill. ii, 82; Rendle in 
Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 123. F. glomerata, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 
47 partly ; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. Append. ii. 51 ; K. Schum. 
in Engl. Pl. Ost-Afr. C. 124 (not Scirpus glomeratus, Retz.). F. rigidula, 
Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 150, not of Nees. Sewrpus 
obtusifolivs, Lam. Ill. i. 141 ; Schumach. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 30. Isolepis 
obtusifolia, Beauv. Fl. Owar. ii. 38, t. 81, fig. 1. Trichelostylis obtusi- 
olia, Nees in Linnea, ix. 290. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Roger! Heudelot, 450! Senegambia, Lepeseyy 7 
Guinea, Thonning, 376! Sierra Leone, Afzelius/ Liberia: Grand Bas-a, Vogel, 70! 
Niger Territory: Oware, Beauvois / Nun River, Vogel, 34! Mann, 532! : 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo, Smith! Angola: Loanda ; seashore of 
Baia da Zamba Grande, Welwitsch, 6993 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Kirk! Baron! German East Africa: Usaramo ; 
Dar-es-Salaam, Kuntze, 209! Usambara; Muoa, Holst, 3036! Rovuma Buy, Kirk: 
Portuguese East Africa : Zambesi Delta; Kongoni River, Kirk / 
Also in South Africa, the Mascarene Isles and T ropical America. 
21. F. oligostachys, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 505. 
Glabrous or very nearly so. Stems annual, slender, tufted , 2-5 in. long. 
Leaves 3 the length of the stem, slender, weak. Spikelets 1—4 on each 
Stem, in one head or nearly so, chestnut or purple-black, } in. bah ae” 
Owered ; bracts 2, lower 4-1} in. long, as though a cortinuation o 
the stem. Glumes spiral or obscurely distichous, nearly glabrous, 
apiculate, Style longer than the nnt nearly glabreus, deciduous 
