Scirpus. | CLVI. CYPERACE® (CLARKE). 459 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Vyasaland ; Kondowe to Karonga,. 
2000-6000 ft., Whyte ! 
Also in Madagascar, India, and the Philippines. 
This species both by authors and by collectors (in Barter, 761) is mixed with. 
Lipocarpha microcephala, R. Br. 
24. S. Hystrix, Thunb. Prodr. 17. Mucro longer than the- 
glume. Nut obviously reticulated, the outermost cells being much: 
larger than in S. squarrosus ; otherwise as S. squarrosus.— Boeck. in. 
Linnea, xxxvi. 735; C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. 
Fl. Afr. v. 623, and in Dyer, FI. Cap. vii. 233; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. 
Welw, ii. 127. 8. Rehmanni, Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 
A Isolepis Hystrix, Schrad. Anal. Fl. Cap. 23; Kunth, Enum. ii. 
04, 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; in damp fields around Lopollo, Welwitsch, 
6771! Huilla to Humpata, Johnston! banks of the River Palanca, Newton ! 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Tanganyika Plateau, at 
Fort Hill, Whyte ! 
Frequent in South Africa. 
25. S. Isolepis, Boeck. in Linnwa, xxxvi. 498. A glabrous: 
tufted annual. Stems 1~10 in. long, setaceous. Leaves 1-1} in. long, 
Setaceous. Spikelet 1 to a stem, 1-4 in. long, ovoid-ellipsoid, obtuse, 
dense, not squarrose, chestnut-coloured, sticking out at right angles. 
apparently from the stem which is continued by the bract {—1 in. long. 
Glumes obovate with a triangular top, caducous in fruit from the 
lowest nut-bearing glume upwards; a small oblong, very thin hyaline: 
lateral scale is sometimes present within the glume. Hypogynous. 
bristles 0; unless represented by the hyaline scale. Stamen 1, occa- 
Sionally 2; anther small, oblong. Style hardly any ; branches 2, short, 
recurved. Nut # the length of the glume, biconvex, obovoid or 
ellipsoid, smooth, black, minutely reticulated.—C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. 
Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 663, in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 624, 
in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append. iii. 82, and in Dyer, FI. Cap. vil. 233 5 
Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 128. Hemicarpha Isolepis, Nees in 
Edinb. New Phil. Journ. xvii. 263; Kunth, Enum. ii. 268; Benth. et 
Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 1053; Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 
Cl ee? 2 Schraderi, Kunth, Enum. ii. 268; A. Rich. Tent. Fi. Abyss. 
li. 507. H. senegalensis, Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 130. _ Lipocarpha 
Rautanenii, Boeck. in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxxi. 179. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perrottet, Leprieur, 9! 
Nile Land. Gallabat: region of Matamma, Schweinfurth, 2047. 
la: Pungo Andongo; Sansamanda, Welwitsch, 6814! 
in cies heen Tent cake. Week 6815! hoes Condo and Quisonde, Sg 
witsch, 6818! Huilla; in the lofty meadows of Empalanca, “elwitsch, 6963 !. 
German South-west Africa : Amboland, Rautanen, 219! 
Also in South Africa and India. 
26. S. micranthus, Vahl, Enum. ii. 254. Spikelets 35-1 to each 
stem, in an apparently lateral cluster, somewhat squarrose. Glumes- 
