Bulbostylis. | CLVI. CYPERACEE (CLARKE). 439 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, 5000-10,000 ft., 
Volkens, 665! 666! 832! 14684! 1910! Usambara; Mtai, Holst, 2473! British 
Central Africa: Nyasaland; near Blantyre, Last ! 
Common throughout the Old World, in tropical and warm regions. B. capillaris, 
Kunth, abounds in the New World; it has the nut definitely transverse wavy, and 
sometimes has radical (i.e. stemless) spikelets, So, in some Abyssinian specimens, 
there are added cleistogamous radical almost subterranean 1-nutted spikelets. 
21. B. puberula, Kunth, Enum. ii. 213, cf. 205, A densely 
tufted annual. Stems 2-12 in. long, setaceous, at the top hairy. 
Leaves 4 as long as the stem, setaceous; sheaths with long white hairs 
in the throat. Spikelets in a simple or compound umbel very nearly 
contracted into a head ; the pedicels of the solitary spikelets often only 
70-15 in. long ; bracts long or short, setaceous. Spikelets 3 in. long, 
10-flowered, oblong, dark-brown. Glumes boat-shaped, ovate, hardly 
acute, pubescent. Style 3-branched. Nut 4 the length of the glume, 
trigonous, obovoid, truncate, pallid, transversely marked by wavy lines ; 
style-base persistent on the nut, small, ovoid, depressed, dark red.—C. 
B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 652, and in Durand & Schinz, 
Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 615, incl. var. 8; Durand & Schinz, Etudes 
Fl, Congo, i. 307. Scirpus puberulus, Poir. in Lam. Encycl. vi. 767 ; 
Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 767, in small part. S. barbatus, Boeck. in 
Linnea, xxxvi. 751 partly. Jsolepis Sieberi, Schrad. Anal. Fl. Cap. 23 
m note; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 104. Cyperus pubescens, Steud. 
Syn. Pl. Glum, ii. 50. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Cameroon Mountain; 6000-10,000 ft., Mann, 
1360 partly ! 2093 partly ! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo, Smith ! 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Zomba Rock, Whyte / 
Also in the Mascarene Islands, South India, Malaya. 
The South American plants referred hither by Boeckeler are B, langsdorffiana, 
Kunth, which is a very closely allied species. Boeckeler’s Senegal Scirpus puberulus 
Is for me Fimbristylis exilis, Roem. & Sch. The present plant has the umbel 
80 much contracted that it is never referred to B. capillaris, but (as by Boeckeler 
generally) to B. barbata. It might be treated asa variety of B. barbata, witha 
“hm loosened inflorescence, but that it further differs by the stem being hairy at 
e top, 
22. B. Taylori, ©. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 
4fr.v. 616. Umbel simple, of 1-5 spikelets; rays up to } in. long. 
Spikelets ovoid, chestnut-red. Glumes minutely hairy. Style 3-fid; 
Style-base persistent on the nut as a discoloured button. Nut acutely 
triquetrous with concave faces, much contracted at the base, pear- 
Shaped ; otherwise as B. capillaris.—Fimbristylis Taylori, K. Schum. in 
Engl. PA. Ost-Afr. C. 125. 
Mozamb, Dist. Zanzibar, Taylor! 
This is separated from B. capillaris. vy me 
Species recorded here as being admitted by Kunth or other judicious authors. 
Must be understocd that the genus Bulbostylis is very homogeneous, and that 
we have here a number of plants which will not match, thongh the points separati g 
them are of very small botanic significance. 
It is more strongly marked than several 
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