Lipocarpha. | CLVI, CYPERACEE (CLARKE). 469 
view was started by Kunth, and Theo. Holm writes to me that after a prolonged 
investigation he is decisively of the same opinion, If this is so, Lipocarpha must be 
remote from every other genus. 
Spikelets terete, smooth; glumes with obtuse triangular 
tips incurved in fruit. 
Nut about 3 the length of the glume; style 3 the 
length of the nut : : - . - 
Nut { the length of the glume ; style 0, the 3 branches 
just united. 
Nut oblong ; lower hyaline scale narrow-elliptic. 
Stem very slender, with 3-1 spikelets . 
Stem medium-sized, with 3-18 spikelets 
Nut obovoid; lower hyaline scale suborbicular 
Spikelets hispid ; glumes acuminate with linear tips sub- 
erect in fruit. 
Medium-sized plants with stolons. 
Stolons very slender; spikelets pallid or cinnamon- 
1. L. argentea. 
. L. filiformis. 
. L. triceps. 
. L. prieuriana. 
He oo bo 
5. L. albiceps. 
coloured 5 
6. L. purpureolutea. 
Stolons rather stout ; spikelets purple-yellow 
Small plants ; stolons 0. 
Stems 4-8 in. long, slender, with 5~1 spikelets . 7. L. atra. 
Stems less than 1 in. long, with 1 spikelet 8. L. multibracteata. 
Spikelets squarrose ; glumes with a long linear tip re- 
curved in fruit, 
Stems 12-20 in. long, rather robust; spikelets 
obscurely squarrose . . 
4 ; : 9. L. Barteri. 
Stems 4-14 in. long, slender; spikelets strongly 
. 10. L. pulcherrima. 
squarrose ¢ 
kh. Br. in Tuckey, Congo, Append. 459. 
1. L. argentea, 
Stems 
Glabrous. Rhizome usually 0, sometimes up to 1} in. long. 
tufted, 4-24 in. long, round-trigonous, smooth, with no nodes between 
the basal leaves and single head. Leaves sometimes as long as the stem, 
often only } its length, 4-4 in. broad, rather fleshy at the base. 
Spikelets 3-10, 4-5 by ¢ in., ovoid or cylindric, obtuse, terete, not 
Tough from excurrent points of glumes, white ; bracts 3-2, horizontal, 
lowest 1—4 in. long and similar to the leaves. Glumes very dense in 
numerous spirals, obovate, with obtuse triangular tips, erect or incurved 
In fruit, thick in texture. Hyaline scales shorter than the glume; 
lower anticous narrow-elliptic and 5-veined, upper posticous oblong and 
3-Veined. Stamens usually 2; anthers narrowly oblong, muticous. 
Style linear, } the length of the nut; branches 3-2, very short, scarcely 
®xserted. Nut about 4 the length of the hyaline scale, trigonous-com- 
pressed, oblong-obovoid, brown-black, smooth.—Kunth, Enum. ii. 266 ; 
Benth. in Hook. N iger Fl. 555; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 114 partly 
(ie, excl, the American examples), in Flora, 1879, 567, and in Engl. 
Gazelle Reise, Bot. 14; T. Thoms. in Speke, Nile, Append. 654; Oliver 
Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix, 169; Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soe. ser. 2, Bot. 
2. 163; Goeb. in Ann. Jard. Buit. vii. 131, t. 14, fig. 18, t. 15, fig. 
19-20 ; ©. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 667, in Durand & 
Schinz, Conspect. FI. Afr. v. 649, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 265; 
Durand and Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 308; Durand and De Wild. in 
