Fuirena. | CLVI. CYPERACEZ (CLARKE). 463 
to the topmost leaf. Spikelets } by 4 in., mostly short-pedicelled. Glumes 
boat-shaped, ovate, obtuse, retuse, pale brown, glabrous, the green stout 
keel excurrent in a recurved mucro } the length of the glume. Hypo- 
gynous bristles 0, Nut % the length of the glume, triquetrous, broadly 
obovoid truncate almost retuse, black, with obscure transverse wavy 
lines; beak or style-base minute ; style short, branches 3, long. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Boruma, on the Zambesi, Meny- 
harth, 1060! 
This is put in Fuirena because of the nodose stem and elongate panicle. Neither 
the glabrous glumes, nor the nut, nor the defect of hypogynous bristles suit 
Fuirena well. 
2. F. pubescens, Kunth, Enum. ii. 182. Hairy, especially the 
inflorescence. Rhizome long-creeping, 745-4 in. thick. Stems often 
solitary, 4-16 in. long, triquetrous, with nodes throughout their length. 
Leaves 6 in. by 4-4 in., ultimately often pendent; base broad with a 
prominent ligule; lowest bracts similar to the topmost leaf. Panicle 
10 by 2 in., with remote peduncles, but often reduced to 1 or 2 few- 
flowered subterminal always corymbose not umbelled clusters. Spikelets 
ovoid or broad-ellipsoid, }—} in. long, usually } in. broad, not 5-ranked. 
Glumes broad-elliptic, obtuse, hairy without, 3—5-ribbed, blackish-green 
on the sides; bristle 4} the length of the glume. Hypogynous bristles 0, 
or quite rudimentary. Nut less than } the length of the glume, 
triquetrous, narrowly obovoid, crowned by a scabrid triquetrous narrowly 
pyramidal style-base; outermost cells forming ultimately a marble 
white minutely reticulated loose coat ; style 3-fid.—A. Rich. Tent. FI]. 
Abyss. ii. 497; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 104, and in Flora, 1879, 566; 
Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soe. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 160; C. B. Clarke in Hook. 
f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 665, in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fi. Afr. v. 648, 
in Dyer, FI. Cap. vii. 261; Ficalho & Hiern in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, 
Bot. ii. 28 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 146; K. Schum. in Engl. 
PA. Ost-Afr. C. 126; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii.128. Scirpus 
pubescens, Lam. Ill. i. 139; Cosson & Durieu, Expl. Scient. Algér. 
Glum. 237; J. Ball in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 703. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Begemeder; near Selaneko, 8800 ft., Schimper, 
1296! and without precise locality, Roth! British East Africa: Gazelle River, 
Schweinfurth, 1164! Ukamba, 5000-6000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6523 ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; in marshy meadows by the River 
Cassaballa, Welwitsch, 7116! German South-west A‘rica: Hereroland ; Dinter, 
425! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Tanga, Volkens, 23! British Central 
Africa: Nyasiland ; Nyika Plateau, 6000-7000 ft., Whyte, 203! Namasi, Cameron, 
il! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 1453! 
Extends from Portugal and Corsica to South Africa and India. 
3. F. Welwitschii, Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 161. 
Stems rather slender, closer together on the rhizome. Leaves narrower, 
upper scarcely } in. broad, very erect. Inflorescence usually reduced 
to 1 or 2 subterminal heads. Spikelets oblong-ellipsoid, about } in. 
