- Fuirena.| CLVI. CYPERACEX (CLARKE). 467 
green or dull chestnut-coloured. Glumes elliptic ; keel excurrent in a 
curved bristle. Hypogynous bristles: outer 3 (sepals) linear, small 
or 0; inner 3 as long as the nut, obovate truncate, sessile or 
hardly clawed. Style linear; branches 3, linear. Nut about 4 the 
length of the glume, triquetrous, ovoid, acuminate at the top 
and at the base, smooth, pallid, ultimately brown; beak small, 
cylindric, very narrow.—Kunth, Enum. il. 185; Benth. in Hook. 
Niger Fl. 553; Boeck. in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 545, in 
Linnea, xxxvii. 110, and in Flora, 1879, 566; Oliver in Trans, Linn. 
Soc, xxix. 168; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 666, and in 
Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 648 ; Henriques in Bolet. Soc. 
Brot. v. 209; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 308; K. Schum. 
in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 126; Durand & De Wild. Comptes-rendus Soc. 
bot. Belg. xxxvi. 90; Urban, Symb. Antill. ii. 97; Rendle in Cat. Afr. 
Pl. Welw. ii. 129. F. paniculata, Linn. f. Suppl. 105. F. pentagona, 
Schumach. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 42. 7. canescens, Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 
128, not of Vahl. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perrottet, 814! Sierra Leone; by the Kabele 
River, Scott-Elliot, 4929! and without precise locality, Afzelins ! Guinea, Isert ! 
Jardin! Liberia: Bassa Cove, Ansell / Lagos: Abeokuta, Irving ! Niger Territory : 
Nupe, Barter, 418! 1016! Niger Delta; Nun River, Vogel, 43! 61! Cameroons : 
Cameroon River, Mann, 777! Yauude, Zenker & Staudt, 632! Zenker, 1512! 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2192! 
2407 ! Niamniam ; Yubbo River, Schweinfurth, 3724! Madi, Speke § Grant, 721! 
Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, Don! Loango: neur Chinchoco, 
Soyaue, 201! Lower Congo, Lutete, 1800 ft., Hens, 198! Kisantu, Gillet, 368! 
and without precise locality, Smith, 324! Angola: Golungo Alto; by streams near 
olungo Alto and Sange, Welwitsch, 7121! Pungo Andongo; near the River 
Cuanza, Welwitsch, 7120! 
South Central. Congo Free State: Kassai River, Luja, 218! 
_ Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Kuntze, 285! German East Africa: Zanguebar, 
Kirk 1 Tanga, Holst, 2028! British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Tanganyika 
Plateau, at Fort Hill, 3500-4000 ft., Whyte / Mbame Hiil, 3000 ft., Kirk! Shire 
pighlands, Buchanan, 9! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 1133! Whyte, 
Very common in all tropical and subtropical regions. 
2). ¥. Cinerascens, Fidley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. li. 
161, name only. Hairy, at least the glumes. Rhizome creeping. 
Stems 12-16 in. long, with nodes throughout their length. Leaves 
*~4 by t+-lin. Panicle oblong, with distant peduncles bearing 15-60 
Spikelets, Spikelets 3-6 together, }-} by }-{ in., subey lindric, black- 
green. Glume elliptic, with a long recurved bristle. Inner 3 hypo- 
8ynous bristles as long as the nut, obovate, strongly 3-nerved, with a 
‘erminal crest, lateral wings and a ciliate claw. Nut } the length of 
the glume, triquetrous, ovoid, acuminate at the top and at the base, 
‘Mooth, pallid; beak small, cylindric, very narrow.— U. B. Clarke in 
Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 645; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. 
Welw. ii. 129; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 126. F. calolepis, 
