440 CLVI. CYPERACEH (CLARKE). | Bulbostylis. 
23. B. Burchellii, C. B. Clarke in Durand d: Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 
Afr. v. 612. Rhizome hardly any. Stems 4—20 in. long, very slender, 
glabrous at the top, firmly tufted and almost fused at the base. Leaves 
4 the length of the stem, setaceous; sheaths woolly, with long white 
hairs at the throat. Umbel simple or compound, 2-4 in. in diam., often 
of 30 spikelets ; many of the spikelets solitary on pedicels } in. long or 
upwards, sometimes reduced to a head of 1-4 spikelets ; bracts short, 
setaceous. Spikelets }-} by 44,-;’p in., oblong or narrow-cylindric, pale 
brown. Glumes ovate, hardly acute, minutely pubescent. Style 3-fid. 
Nut } the length of the glume, trigonous, obovoid, truncate, pale- 
brown, smooth with obscure transverse wavy lines ; style-base persistent 
on the nut, small, conic, dark brown.—C. B. Clarke in Dyer, Fi. Cap. 
vii. 210; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 125. Fimbristylis Bur- 
chellii, Ficalho & Hiern in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. 1. 28, t. 6, B, 
fig. 7-15; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 125. F. hispidula, 
Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 27 partly. /’. huillensis, Ridley in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 154. Scirpus capillifolius, Boeck. in 
Rehmann, Exsicc. 4330, not of Parlatore. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; pastures of Empelaca, Welwitsch, 6950! 
pastures at Catumba, Welwitsch, 6951! ; 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Shire, on a stony hill- 
side at Morambala, Scott! British Central Africa : Boruma, on the Zambesi, Meny- 
harth, 1055! Nyasaland ; near Blantyre, Last ! 
Also in South Africa. 
This is closely allied to B. capillaris ; the pale brown spikelets are larger, the 
stems longer, and at the base stouter, the leaf-sheaths much mcre hairy. 
24. B. argenteobrunea, (. 2B. Clarke. Stems densely tufted, 
1 ft. long, at the top glabrous with the stomata very conspicuous a 
rows of dots between the ribs. Leaves half the length of the stem, 
setaceous; sheaths brown, with long white hairs on the throat. 
Umbel 13 in. in diam., subcompound, of 6-14 spikelets ; bracts as pei 
as the umbel, setaceous. Spikelets solitary, } by } in., narrow’y 
ellipsoid, subacute, a silver-brown colour. Glumes boat-shaped, one 
apiculate, pubescent, a few very long white hairs added on the bac : 
keel green. Style rather short; branches 3, long. Nut 2 the lengt 
of the glume, trigonous, obovoid, truncate, contracted at the base 
almost pear-shaped, pale brown, with transverse wavy lines ; style-base 
persistent on the nut, small, dark-red, very short cylindric (button 
shaped). 
coon Zand. British East Africa: Ngomeni, in Kikumbuliu, Scott- 
3270! 
25. B. pusilla, ©. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. pin 
Afr. v. 615. Stems 1-5 in. long, with 1-9 spikelets. . Nut very sa 
obovoid (broader than long), trigonous, truncate, black with are 
horizontal glistening-white wavy lines (i.e. the more persistent _ ]- 
the longitudinal cells which have withered off) ; otherwise as a Zarb 
laris.—Fimbristylis pusilla, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. soe ? ok 
in Cat. Spée. Bot. Pfund, 39. Scirpus Hochstetterz, Boeck. in Linney 
Elliot, 
