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9. B. filamentosa, Kunth, Enum. ii. 21 of. 205. Rhizome 
hardly any. Stems densely tufted, 8-20 in. long, slender, at the top 
trigonous, hairy. Leaves # the length of the stem, setaceous; sheaths 
hairy, with long white hairs in the throat, often torn. Head 1, 4-2 in. 
in diam., of 6-14 spikelets, chestnut-brown; bracts 3-2, setaceou:, 
lowest often overtopping the head. Spikelets 4 by ;4,in., 6-10-flowere«. 
Glumes boat-shaped, ovate, minutely apiculate, pubescent but with no 
long white hair. Stamens 3; anthers linear, with a minute terminal 
bristle. Style 3-fid. Nut 2 the length of the glume, acutely trigonous, 
obovoid, truncate, pallid, with obscure transverse lines; style-basc 
persistent, ovoid, larger than usual, hardly darker than the nut.— 
C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 613, and in 
Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 206; Durand & Schinz, Etudes FI. Congo i. 306; 
Durand & De Wild. in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvi. 89 ; 
Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 124. Scirpus filamentosus, Vahi!, 
Enum. ii. 262; Schumach. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 30; Boeck. in Linnea, 
Xxxvi. 747 (excl. the American plants and synon.), and in Flora, 1879, 
963. Isolepis filamentosa, Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. ii. 113 ; Benth.in 
Hook. Niger Fl. 553. Fimbristylis filamentosa, K. Schum. in Engl. Pi.. 
Ost-Afr. O. 125. F collina, Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. 
Bot. ii, 154. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone? Kabnsa, Scoft-Eiliot, 5467! and witho.t 
Precise locality, Afzelius ! Niger Territory : Nupe, Barter, 1577 ! 
Nile Land. Upper Sennar: Fazokl, Figari! British East Africa: Jur; Jur 
Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 1995! 
Lower Guinea, Lower Congo: Lutete, 1500-2000 ft., Hens, A, 238! 
Stanley Pool, Demeuse ! Kimuenza, Gillet, 1644! 1703! 1770! and without pre- 
cise locality, Smith, 308! Angola: Pungo Andongo; higher pastures of the 
Presidium, Welwitsch, 7151! mountainous places east of Quilombo Quiacatubia, 
2200 ft., Welwitsch, 7004! Queta Mountains, Welwitsch, 7004s ! 
South Central. Congo Free State: Monbuttu; by the River Welle, 
Schweinfurth, 3516 ! Nlempu, Butaye ! 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Plains of Zomba, 2500- 
3000 ft., Whyte ! 
Also in the Transvaal. 
Var. ? barbata, C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 614. 
Stem minutely hairy at the top. Head of about 4 spikelets, larger than those 
of typical C. filamentosa, Kunth. Glumes with some long white hairs on the 
margins. Nut with transverse wavy lines.—Abildgaardia barbata, Beauv. FI. 
Owar. ii. 47, t. 86, fig. 1; Kunth, Enum. ii. 250. Cyperus barbatus, Poir. Encycl. 
Suppl. v. 186. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius, 583! Niger Territory: Oware, 
Beauvois 
This is very doubtfully placed with B. fi/amentosa ; in everything, except the 
nut (which has its outermost cells longitudinally oblong), it much more resembles 
Bz, collina, 
10. B. laniceps, (. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. F1. 
-lfr.v. 614. Rhizome hardly any. Stems densely tufted, 8-16 in. long, 
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