444 CLYI. CYPERACEZ (CLARKE). | Bulbostylis. 
Welwitsch, 6820! Pedra Cambondo and Muta Lucala, Welwitsch, 6821! in the 
Presidium, Welwitsch, 6825! 6830! Pedras de Guinga, Welwitsch, 68273! 
6830B ! 
32. B. transiens, (. B. Clarke. Stems 1 ft. long, slender, at the 
top minutely hairy. Leaves hardly any; the topmost sheath produced 
on one side 4-1} in., lax, pale rusty-brown, with scattered Leo white 
hairs. Spikelets 3-4, solitary, on pedicels 0—} in. long, 4 by $ in. ; 
bracts shorter than the umbel. Glumes boat-shaped, ovate, eit 
acute, pale brown, pubescent ; keel green. Nut large, exceeding 4 - 
length of the glume, trigonous, obovoid, truncate, pallid, strongly bey 
horizontally; style 3-branched ; base persistent on the nut, large for 
Bulbostylis, ovoid-cuboid, dusky.—Fimbristylis transiens, K. Schum. 1p 
Holst, Exsice. 2199. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara ; Bombuera, Holst, 2199! 
33, B, melanocephala, (. 8. Clarke in Durand & Schins 
Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 615. Stem 1-2 in. long, with 1-2 solitary ovoid 
globuse chestnut-red spikelets 4-1 in. long ; otherwise as B. capillaris.— 
Rendle in Cat. Afr, Pl. Welw. ii. 124. Fimbristylis melanocephala, 
Ridley in Trans, Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 151; Engl. Hochgebirgsf. 
Trop. Afr. 149. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; between Morro de Lopollo and Humpata, 
Welwitsch, 6947 ! E 
1 cannot find any nut on the young examples of Welwitsch on which this species 
is fuunded ; and therefore do not attempt to reduce it to any known species. 
34. B. macra, (. B. Clarke in Durand d: Schinz, Conspect- 
fl. Afr. vy. 614. Rhizome short, horizontal, woody. Stem 8 a 
long, slender, glabrous at the top. Leaves }$ the length of oe 
stem, setaceous; sheaths with long white hairs in the throat. Spike e 
1 on each stem (a second long-pedicelled sometimes added), 3 by yo ae 
rusty-brown; bract longer than the spikelet. Glumes boat-shapee 
vvate, minutely pubescent, keel 3-nerved, tip triangular. Nut Shes 
long as the glume, large for Bulbostylis, trigonous, obovoid, trunca i 
pallid, smooth, obscurely wavy transversely. Style nearly as long " 
the nut; branches 3, linear; base persistent on the nut, sma r 
ovoid, depressed, black-brown.—Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. il. 124. 
Fimbristylis macra, Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. 11. 150. 
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Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; in thicket-grown pastures in the Lopollo 
district, Welwitsch, 6955 ! 
35. B. megastachys, (. B. Clarke in Durand «& Schinz, i, 
fl. Afr. v.614. Stems densely tufted, 12 in. long, rigid, stouter : oe 
in any other Bulbostylis of this section, at the top glabrous. mere 
hardly 4 the length of the stem, setaceous, glabrous or minu He 
scabrous on the margins; sheaths without any white hairs 1n ae 
throat. Umbel simple of 3-5 solitary spikelets ; bracts 2-3, lowest 473 
