434 CLVI. CYPERACEZ (CLARKE). [ Bulbostylis. 
slender, at the top glabrous or nearly so. Leaves } the length of the 
stem, setaceous; sheaths nearly glabrous, scarcely ciliate in the throat. 
Head 1, tin. in diam., globose, dense, of 20 spikelets, with some long 
white hairs arising both from the margins of the glumes and from the 
receptacle ; bracts setaceous, hardly exceeding 1 in. inlength. Spikelets 
4-4 in. long, lanceolate, compressed, 6—10-flowered, chestnut-brown. 
Glumes ovate, acuminate, mucronate, puberulous. Style 3-fid. Nut 
4 the length of the glume, trigonous, obovoid, truncate, smooth, dusky 
brown ; style-base persistent, small, conic.—Durand & Schinz, Etudes 
Fl. Congo, i. 306; De Wild. & Durand, Ill. Fl. Congo, i. 21, t. cf 
Fimbristylis laniceps, K. Schum. in Engl. PA. Ost-Afr, C. 12 
in obs. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, dfzelius! Liberia: Grand Bassa, Vogel, 
92! 
Lower Guinea. Corisco Island, Mann, 1885! Lower Congo: Stanley Pool, 
950 ft., Hens, B, 347! Kisantu, Gillet, 1591! 1651! 
South Central. Congo Free State: Lukolela, 950 ft., Hens, C, 163! 
11. B. cardiocarpa, (. B. Clarke in Durand d: Schinz, Conspect. 
Fl. Afr. v. 612. Rhizome 0. Stems 12-20 in. long, tufted, stouter 
than in the preceding species, at the top trigonous and | cme 
Leaves 3-9 in. long, setaceous, inrolled; sheaths woolly-ciliate, wit 
straight white hairs in the throat. Head 1, }—} in. in diam., chestnut- 
brown, of 10-20 spikelets ; bracts 2, shorter than the head. Spikelets 
% in, long, oblong-lanceolate, 5-12-flowered. Glumes densely aaah 
cate, ovate, acuminate, mucronate, puberulous towards the top. oh 
3-fid. Nut 4 the length of the glume, trigonous, rather prehtee’ 
obovoid, pallid, truncate (almost depressed at the insertion of q e 
button), not longitudinally ribbed nor transversely wavy-lineate ; style- 
base persistent, small, conic, dark-red ; outermost cells subquadrangulat, 
prominent, sometimes inflated.—Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. he 
Fimbristylis cardiocarpa, Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 154; 
K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. ©. 125, not of F. Mueller. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Morson ! 
= ‘let 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Stanley Pool, Callewaert ! Kisantu, sheet 
622! Kimuenza, Gillet, 791! Angola: Pungo Andongo; in lofty places on ie 
de Guinga, Welwitsch, 6816! Huilla; lofty pastures and slopes of Morr 
Monino, Welwitsch, 6948! 6960! vere 
Var. 8 Holubii, C. B. Clarke. Nut much larger, 3-3 the length of ms cae 
lead-coloured when fully ripe; style-base large, short-cylindric.—B. cardv0 r 
C. B. Clarke in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 208. 
Mozamb. Dist. Rhodesia: Leshumo Valley, Holub ! 
Also in South Africa. 
Some of the heads are overtopped by the lowest bract. 
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12. B. erratica, C. B. Clarke. Nearly glabrous, pe 
minutely heiry glumes and top of the stem. Rhizome ee o> ois 
but very short, Stems approximate, 4-14 in. long, at the top %g 
