Bulbostylis. | CLVI, CYPERACEH (CLARKE). 435 
and minutely hairy or glabrate. Leaves.nearly as long as the stem, 
setaceous, inrolled; sheaths pale brown, not bearded in the throat. 
Head 1, of 3-5 spikelets, bright chestnut-brown ; lowest bract ovate at 
the base, the linear green or yellow termination longer or shorter than 
the head. Spikelets 4 by 4-4 in., cylindric-lanceolate. Glumes closely 
imbricate, often 15-20 to the spikelet, the nutbearing glumes up to 
5 in. long, elliptic-oblong, scarcely acute; keel green or yellow. Style 
shorter than the nut, branches 3. Nut 1-} the length of the glume, 
oblong, somewhat obovoid, truncate, trigonous with 3 shining angles, 
and chestnut-brown in colour, marked inconspicuously by transverse 
wavy lines ; outermost cells longitudinally oblong ; style-base persistent 
on the nut, small, conic.—B. schenoides, C.. B. Clarke in Durand & 
Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 616, partly; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. 
Welw. ii. 124. Schanus ? erraticus, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 
22. Isolepis schenoides, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 225. 
Chictospora nigricans, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxviii. 290, partly, ie. G. 
Mann’s plant. Fimbristylis kunthiana, Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
ser. 2, Bot. ii. 151. F. schenoides, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl, Ost-Afr. 
* 125 partly. Scirpus kamerunensis, K. Schum. in Preuss, Exsice. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Cameroon Mountain, 7000-11000 ft., Mann, 
1346! 2105! Johnston, 41! and without precise locality, Preuss, 925! Fernando 
Po: Clarence Peak, 9000 ft., Mann, 655! 1472! 
G. Mann’s examples are excellent and ripe; the plant is certainly a Bulbostylis. 
The ripe nut is remarkable, and separates it from all other species of Bulbostylis 
Where the nut is known, but unfortunately the nut in B. schenoides is not known. 
13. B. atrosanguinea, C’. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Con 
spect. Fl. Afr. v. 611. Rhizome hardly any. Stems densely tufted, 
! foot long, slender, at the top triquetrous and minutely hairy. Leave~ 
hearly as long as the stem, setaceous, minutely hairy ; sheaths hairy, 
‘Scarcely bearded in the throat. Head 1, $—3 in. in diam., of 4-12 
Spikelets, chestnut-coloured ; lowest bract setaceous, usually much 
overtopping the head. Spikelets } in. long, oblong or narrow-ellipsoid, 
6-12-flowered. Glumes closely imbricate, ovate, obtuse or scarcely 
acute, keeled. Stamens 3. Style long, glabrous; branches 3, linear. 
Nut (seen only young) trigonous-obovoid.—Seirpus atrosanguineus, 
ck, in Engl. Jahrb. vii. 276; Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, 
Bot. ii. 353. 8. scheenoides, Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 148. 
Fimbristylis atrosanguinea, Volkens, Kilimand. 311; K. Schum, in 
Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 125. F. schenoides, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. 
Ost-Afr. C. 125 partly. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Nandi, 7000-8000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6971! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; near Nene, Welwitsch, 6949! 
_ Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, 8500-11000 a 
Volkens, 892! 1300! Johnston, 157! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Mount 
Zomba, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte ! 
