Fuirena.| CLVI. CYPERACEH (CLARKE). 465 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Boruma, on the Zambesi, Weayharth, 
1062 ! 
6. F. stricta, Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 128. Hairy, at least 
the backs of the glumes. Rhizome 0, or sometimes } in. long, very 
slender. Stems tufted, about 12 in. long, slender, with nodes and 
leaves throughout their length. Leaves 1-2 by {-1 in. Clusters of 
spikelets usually 3-1, not more than 3 in. from the top of the stem, 
subsessile of 6-3-1 spikelets. Spikelets } by } in. Glumes more 
or less 5-ranked apparently, elliptic-lanceolate, brown; keel green, 
excurrent in a minute mucro. Hypogynous bristles 6, 5 or 3, longpr 
than the nut* stiff, brown, linear, strongly retrorse-scabrid. Style 
3-fid. Nut more than }$ the length of the glume, narrowly obovoid, 
stalked, trigonous, smooth, brown; beak cylindric, very narrow.—Boeck. 
in Linnea, xxxvii. 99; C. B. Clarke in Durand «& Schinz, Conspect. 
Fl. Afr. v. 648 ; K.Schum. in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. ©. 126. Pentasticha 
madagascariensis, Turcz. in Bul]. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxxv. ii. 330; Benth. 
in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 1049. 
head Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Niger Territory: Nupe, Barter, 
o02: 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Kavirondo, Scott-Elliot, 6475! 
,Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Namasi, Cameroii, 
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Also in Madagascar and the Comoro Isles. 
‘. FP. chlorocarpa, Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 159. 
Spikelets black-green. Glumes ovate, acute, not at all 5-ranked, the 
keel distinctly exeurrent. Nut a greenish yellow; otherwise as 
P. stricta. —C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. FI. Afr. v. 645, 
and in Dyer, FI. Cap. vii. 262; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, 
1 507. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Begemeder; Reb Valley, near Senka Berr, 6800 ft., 
Schimper, 1293! 
Lower Guinea. Congo: Lower Congo; Stanley Poo!', 1000 ft., Hens, 373! 
Angola: Huilla ; marshy places at Lopollo, Welwitsch, 7113 ! 
Also in Madagascar and South Africa. 
eo .3.F. glomerata, Zam. Jil. i. 150. Annual, hairy. Stems 4-16 
in. long, rather slender. Leaves 4-6 by } in. Panicle oblong, thin, of 
afew often approximated clusters. Spikelets }-} by }-} in. Glumes 
ark green to dull brown, 3-nerved, keel excurrent in a long bristle. 
Ypogynous bristles 3 or 6 ; outer (sepals) linear or 0 ; 3 inner (petals) as 
ong as the nut, quadrate, toothed, brown, on a long linear claw, falling 
With the nut, 3-nerved. Nut } tke length of the glume, ovoid, 
triquetrous, acuminate at the top and base, smooth, pallid; beak 
cylindric, very narrow. Style 3-branched.—Kunth, Enum. ii. 184; 
Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 553; Boeck. in Peters, Reise Mozamb. 
ot. 545, in Linnea, xxxvii. 107; Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. 
Bot. ii, 160 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 666, and in 
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