464 CLVI, CYPERACEA (CLARKE). [ Futrena. 
broad, brownish. Glumes appearing more or less distinctly 5-ranked ; 
otherwise as F’. pubescens.—C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. 
Fl. Afr. v. 649, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. iv. 54; Rendle in 
Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 128. F. Buchanani, Boeck. Cyp. Nove, i. 20; 
K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 126. F. pubescens, var. Buchanani, 
C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 648. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; marshes near Quibanga, Wel- 
witsch, 7108! Huilla; damp slopes of Morro de Monino, Welwitsch, 7109! near 
Lopollo, Welwitsch, 7114! dry hills near Eme, Welwitsch, 7115! 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Urungu; Fwambo, 5250 ft., 
Nutt! Nyasaland; Shire Highlands, Buchanan! and without precise locality, 
Puchanan, 1435! 1442! 
The development of the panicle varies so much in Fuirena, that I do not think 
species can be maintained on the character of a single compound head. 
4. F. pachyrrhiza, Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 161. 
Rhizome stout, about } in. thick. Panicle and glumes minutely hairy. 
Spikes and glumes rather larger than in 7. pubescens ; nut smaller, with 
narrower style-base; outermost cells granular, subelliptic in obscurely 
vertical series ; otherwise as /’. pubescens.—C, B. Clarke in Durand & 
Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr v. 647 and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 262; 
K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. ©. 126; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 
11.129. F. macrostachya, Boeck. in Engl. Jahrb. v. 507. Yuirena aff. 
F.. pubescenti, Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 168. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Ukamba, 6000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6728! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andonga, 2500-4000 ft., Welwitsch, T117* 
7118! 7119! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Urundi, Scott-Elliot, 8301! Uyanzi; 
in the Mgunda Mkhali, at Jiwa la Mkoa, Speke & Grant! Lake Tanganyika, 
Cameron! Unyamwezi; Gonda, Boehm, 73. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; 
Shire Highlands, Scott-Elliot, 8481! 
Also in South Africa. 
5. F. pygmea, Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 160. 
Hairy, at least the panicle and glumes, annual. Stems tufted, 5-20 m- 
long, slender, with nodes (bearing either leaves or bracts) in the uppe 
part. Leaves 2-6 by 34-4 in. Inflorescence (in Ridley’s type) about 
1 in. long and broad, of a terminal cluster of 7 spikelets, and an axillary 
branched peduncle carrying in all 8 spikelets; but, in Menyharths 
examples there are distant axillary heads forming a long panicle. 
Spikelets { by 4), in. Glumes with a bristle } their length. 
Hypogynous bristles 0 or rudimentary. Style with three branches- 
Nut hardly 4 the length of the glume, trigonous, obovoid, smooth, 
brown finally black; beak (or style-base) cylindric, very narrow + 
outermost cells elliptic, transverse, obscure.—C. B. Clarke in Durand 
& Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 648 including var. 3 Menyharthi ; Rendle 
in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii, 128. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; in sandy marshes near Sansa- 
manda, and between Mopopo and Sansamanda, Welwitsch, 7111! 7171! Huilla; in 
damp places at Monino, Welwitsch, 7112! 
