430 CLYI. CYPERACEE (CLARKE). [ Bulbostylis. 
flattened on the anterior face, biconvex, pale brown, minutely striate 
lengthwise.—C. B. Clarke in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 205. Jsolepis humillima, 
Hochst. ex C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect, Fl. Afr. v. 616. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Memsa (Memsach ?), Quartin-Dillon ; and without 
precise locality, Schimper, 355! 
Also in South Africa, 
2. B. festucoides, Awnth, Enum. ii. 207, cf. 205. A tufted 
annual. Stem 2-8 in. long, striate, glabrous or minutely hairy, with 
one spikelet. Leaves } the length of the stem, setaceous, glabrous or 
minutely hairy; sheaths hairy, with long white hairs in the mouth. 
Spikelet } by 3, in., brown; bract suberect, shorter or longer than the 
spikelet. Glumes in many spirals, ovate, acuminate, submucronate, 
nearly glabrous ; keel green, sub-3-nerved. Style rather shorter than 
the nut; branches 3, long. Nut 4-} the length of the glume; 
obovoid, trigonous, pallid, transversely wavy; style-base persistent as 
a button on the nut, red-brown.—C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, 
Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 613. Scirpus festucoides, Poir. in Lam, Encycl. 
vi. 752; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 743. Jsolepis festucoides, Steud. 
Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 100. 
Upper Guinea. French Guinea: Sulimania; Erimakuna, Scott-Ellist, 
5244! 
Frequent in the Mascarene Islands, 
Scott-Elliot’s plant has a smaller spikelet, but larger more wavy nut than the 
Mascarene material, 
3. B. zambesica, (. B. Clarke in Durand d&: Schinz, Conspect. Fil. 
Afr. v.616. Tufts very dense, hard with wiry roots. Stem 4—6 in. long, 
setaceous, minutely scabrous hairy, with one spikelet. Leaves $ the length 
of the stem, capillary, scabrous hairy ; sheaths with white hairs n the 
mouth. Spikelet } by 2 in., oblong-ellipsoid, obtuse, dusky brown. Lowest 
glume mucronate, but little longer than the fertile glumes; glumes 
ovate, at the tip triangular and subobtuse, hairy ; keel green, 3-nerved. 
Style as long as the nut; branches 3, long. Nut less than } the 
length of the glume, obovoid, trigonous, pallid, smooth ; persistent style- 
base dark-red.—Fimbristylis sambesica, K. Schum. in Engl. Pf. Ost- 
Afr. ©, 125. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Mount Sochi, 3000 ft.» 
Kirk ! Kampala, Scott-Elliot, 8464! between Blantyre aud Matope, Scott! 
4. B. spherocarpus, “. B. Clarke in Durand &: Schinz, Conspect. 
rl. Afr. v. 616. A tufted annual. Stem 2-5 in. long, glabrous, wit 
one spikelet. Leaves 3 the length of the stem, capillary, most minutely 
hairy ; sheaths obscurely bearded in the mouth. Spikelet } by re ert 
bearing a few nuts at the base, lanceolate and male above ; bract 4 2 
long, setaceous; basal (i.e. stemless) spikelets are often added. Fertile 
glumes ovate, acuminate, rust-coloured, scabrous-hairy. Style nearly 
as long as nut; branches 3. Nut less than } the length of the glume, 
obovoid, trigonous, smooth, straw-coloured, transversely wavy ; style 
