Scirpus. ] CLVI. CYPERACEX (CLARKE). 457 
brown; keel green, excurrent into a short mucro. Hypogynous bristles 
7-2, plumose with moniliform several-celled hairs. Style linear ; 
branches 2. Nut $ the length of the glume, obovoid, plano-convex, 
black-chestnut, smooth or minutely reticulate-—Kunth, Enum. ii. 166 ; 
Coss. & Durieu, Expl. Sc. Algér. Glum. 235; Boiss. Fl. Orient. v. 383 ; 
0. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 659, in Durand & Schinz, 
Conspect, Fl. Afr. v. 625 incl. var. 8, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 231 ; 
K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Atr. C. 126; Rendle in Cat. Afr. P]. Welw. 
01.127. S. subulatus, Vahl, Enum. ii. 268; Kunth, Enum. ii. 165; 
Boeck. in Linnzea, xxxvi. 715; Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soe. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 
158. S. fimbrisetus, Delile, Fl. Egypte, 11, t. 7, fig. 1. S. egyptiacus, 
Decaisne in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 2, iv. 196. S. triqueter, Gren. & Godr. 
Fi. Frang. iii. 373; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 716, not of Linn. 
S. pterolepis, Kunth, Enum. ii. 166. Malacochete littoralis, Nees in 
Linnea, ix. 292. IM. pterolepis, Nees in Linnea, ix. 292, x. 184. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 533! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes; ponds near Aguadas, Welwitsch, 
6973! Pungo Andongo; marshy places by the River Cuanza, Welwitsch, 6847 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa : Zambesi Delta; banks of the River 
Luabo, Kirk ! British Central Aftica: Nyasaland; shore of Lake Nyasa, Meller ! 
Lake Pamolombe, Kirk ! Boruwa, on the Zambesi, Menyharth, 1064! 
Abundant throughout the Mediterranean Region, common in South Africa, 
South-east Asia, Malaya and North Australia. Not in America, where it is replaced 
by the very closely allied S. riparius, Presl. 
20. S. kylingioides, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 733. Glabrous, 
perennial; slender stolons sometimes present. Stems 1-6 (rarely 16) in. 
long, slender. Leaves 4 as long as the stem, ‘5 in. broad, grass-like. 
Head 1, subglobose, 4-4 (rarely }) in. in diam., quasi-terminal, green 
or pale brown, the innumerable glume-points sticking out straight on 
all sides; bracts 3-4, spreading or pendent, leaf-like, longer than the 
head, sometimes 2-3 in. long. Glumes ovate, contracted rather suddenly 
into a linear obtuse termination. Hypogynous bristles 0, Style linear, 
shorter than the nut ; branches 3 (or fide Boeckeler 2) long. Nut 4 
the length of the glume, oblong-obovoid, unequally trigonous, smooth, 
black-brown.—C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 662, and in 
Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 624; K.Schum. in Engl. Pf. 
Ost-Afr. ©. 126. Kyllinga microcephala, Steud. in Flora, 1842, 597, 
and Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 70 excl. the Obs. Jsolepis kyllingioides, A. Rich. 
Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 502; Schweinf. Pl. Nilot. 42. 
eer Guinea. Upper Senegal, Lécard, 80! 110 bis! Soudan, Lécard, 
: 106! 
Wile Land. Sennar, Hartmann! Gallabat: banks of the River Gendua, 
Schweinfurth, 2053! Abyssinia: near Gon Ambra, Schimper, 650! Shireh 
Province, Quartin-Dillon & Petit, 650! and without precise locality, Schimper, 
122! 848! British East Africa: Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 1916! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Taylor! British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; 
Zomba Plains, 2500-3000 ft., Whyte ! Namasi, Cameron, 91! 
Also scattered throughout Western India. 
