Ves; : 
466 CLVI, CYPERACEX (CLARKE). | Fuirena. 
Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 646; Rendle in Cat. Afr. ty 
Welw. ii. 128. F. canescens, Vahl, Enum. ii. 385. FF. ciliaris, Roxb. 
Fl. Ind. i. 180; K. Schum. in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C.126. 7 ochreata, 
Nees in Linnea, ix. 288; Kunth, Enum. ii. 184. F. ciliata, Steud. 
Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 126. #. Hildebrandtii, Boeck. in Flora, 1882, 15. 
Scirpus ciliaris, Linn. Mant. 182. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia: near Richard Toll, Roger / and without uae 
cise locality, Leprieur ! Heudelot, 556! Sierra Leone: Mahela, Scott-Elliot, 3982! 
Gold Coast: Accra, Don / Brown, 365! Lagos Island, Barter, 2224! 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Sabaki River, Gregory! Mombasa, 
Taylor ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Loanda; at Represa de Maghelaos, rare, Welwitsch, 
7107! 
Mozamb, Dist. Zanzibar, Bojer! German East Africa: Usambara, oe 
2040! 2737! Portuguese East Africa: Mozambique, Peters! Quilimane, Kirk! 
Lower Zambesi; Shupanga, Kirk! Stewart ! 
Also in Madagascar, India, East Asia, and Australia. 
Var. angolensis, C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v- 647. 
Three interior hypogynous bristles with a much smaller hardly quadrate lamma.— 
F. ciliaris, var. angolensis, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append. iil. 31. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Athi, Gregory, 102! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Gambos, Newfon ! Huilla to Humpata, Johnston : 
Amboland ; Rautanen / 
In this variety, the hypogynous bristles are as, or very nearly as, in F. leptostachy4; 
but the spikelets are fully as large as in typical F. glomerata. 
9. F. leptostachya, Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 168, 108. 
jig. B. Leaves often 4-8 in. long. Spikelets 4-3 by Te —10 ne 
Hypogynous bristles (3 interior or petals) as long as the nut, linear, 
with a very small lamina which is oval, or with 2 recurved teeth.— 
C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 647, incl. var. 
B nudiflora; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl, Ost-Afr. C. 126. F. pages 
Boeck. in Flora, 1879, 566, not of Lam. F. schweinfurthiana, Boeck. 
in Flora, 1880, 438. Fuirena sp. n. 3, T. Thoms. in Speke, Journ. 
Append. 654. e 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, set. 
190! Bongo; Gir, Schweinfurth, 2504! Madi, Speke and Grant sf e 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Tanganyika Plateau, 
Fort Hill, 3500 ft., Whyte ! es 
In Schweinfurth’s 2504 I have found no hypogynous bristles, and formerly oS 
tinguished it as var. audiflora. The plant is young, and the bristles may tig 3 a 
yet be developped; but if there should prove to be no bristles im this pialls 
{ should hardly esteem it as more than an accidental state of F. leptostachy¢. 
10. F. umbellata, Zotth. Descr. et Ic. 70, t. 19, fig. 3. ee ’ a 
least the glumes. Rhizome stout, horizontal, woody. Stems 13-5 ft. L is 
robust, with nodes throughout their length. Leaves up to 6 pile fs: 
less often } in. broad. Panicle long oblong, often with many aXv""- 
1 in, 
compound corymbs and 200-600 spikelets. Spikelets 4-1 by 4; 
