470 CLVI., CYPERACEA (CLARKE). [ Lipocarpha. 
Comptes-rendus Soc. bot. Belg. xxxvi. 90; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PH. 
Welw. ii. 129. Scirpus senegalensis, Lam. Ill. i. 140. Hypelyptum 
argenteum, Vahl, Enum. ii. 283. H. senegalense, K. Schum. in Engl. 
Pf, Ost-Afr. C. 127. Hypolytrum senegalense, Pers. Syn. i. 70. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Dupuis / Sierra Leone: near Franziga, Scolt-Elliot, 
5044! and without precise locality, Don! Vogel! Barter! Vagos: Shaki, Lagos 
Government, 2! 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: Begemeder, Schimper, 1801! British East Africa: 
Gazelle River, at Meshra, Schweinfurth, 1333! Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 
1461! Madi; below Madi rocky heights, Speke g- Grant, 684! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Bingila, Dupuis! Lutete, 1750 ft., Hens, 
71! 254! Kisantu, Gillet, 521! 547! and without precise locality, Smith ! Angola: 
Pungo Andonga; in the rocky valleys of the Presidium at the stream of Calunda, 
Welwitsch, 6778! Huilla: ponds near Monino, Welwitsch, 6777! Humpata, Newton, 
12! 13! 
Mozamb Dist. (ierman East Africa: Karagwe, Scott-Elliot, 7474! British 
Central Africa: Nyasaland; North Nyasa, Scott! Whyte! Namasi, Cameron, 23! 
and without precise locality, Buchanan, 1180! 
Also in South Africa, the Mascarene Islands, Asia and Australia. 
2. L. filiformis, Kunth, Enum. ii. 267. Glabrous. Stems 
annual, tufted, 2-8 in. long, very slender. Leaves few, } the length 
of the stem, linear or setaceous. Head of 3-1 spikelets; bracts 2, 
the lower 1 in. long, horizontal, linear. Spikelets } by } in., cylindric, 
obtuse, dense, white or more or less purple spotted, smooth. Glumes 
broadly ovate, obtuse, their tips erect or incurved in fruit. Hyaline 
scales a little shorter than the glume. Stamen 1. Nut almost as long 
as the hyaline scales, oblong or narrowly obovoid, plano-convex, black- 
brown, smooth. Style 0, or hardly any; branches 3, minute, linear, 
hardly exserted.— Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 117; C. B. Clarke 
Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 650. Hypalyptum filiformé, 
Vahl, Enum. ii. 284; Schumach, Beskr. Guin. Pl. 31. Scupus 
filiformis, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. v. 102, not of Lam. Fimbristyls 
Jiliformis, Thonning ex Kunth, Enum. 267. 
Upper Guinea. Thonning! Senegal, Heudelot ! 
3. L. triceps, Nees in Wight, Contrib. 92. Glabrous. Stems 
annual, tufted, 4-16 in. long, trigonous, striated, smooth. Leaves t to 
+ the length of the stem, linear. Spikelets 3-18 in the head, 4 by 
4 in., cylindric, very dense, obtuse, smooth, usually purple or dar: 
reddish, sometimes paler ; bracts 3-7, spreading, up to 1-4 in. long. 
Glumes obovate, with a triangular tip erect or incurved in fruit. 
Hyaline scales a little shorter than the glumes, lower narrowly elliptic, 
upper oblong. Nut broadly-oblong, round-trigonous, nearly as long as 
the hyaline scale, black-brown, smooth. Style 0 or hardly any ; branche : 
3, linear, shortly exserted.—Z. sphacelata, Kunth, Enum. sie 
Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 555; Boeck. in Flora, 1860, 37, in Lin cae 
xxxvii. 116; Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 162; ees 
Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 667, and in Durand & Schin7, 
