A476 CLVI, CYPERACEH (CLARKE). | Ascolepis. 
This differs from 4. protea, var. bellidiflora in its golden head, from A. protea, 
var. santolinoides in its strongly radiate head; it might be arranged as another 
variety of A. protea. As to which forms of A. protea should be esteemed as 
“* species’ the latest views of Welwitsch are here followed. 
5. A. speciosa, Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 78, t. 24, fig. 
1-8. Rhizome } by 4 in., premorse. Stems 6-18 in. long, rather 
stout, densely tufted ; leaf-sheaths stout, black, finally ia to fibres. 
Leaves about } the length of the stem, rather stout. Head 3-1 in. in 
diam., globose or hemispheric, very dense, golden, not radiate ; otherwise 
as A. protea.—C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. iM 
(52, and in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append. ill. 31 ; Engl. Hochgebirgs : 
Trop. Afr. 145; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. OC. 127 ; Rendle in 
Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 131. A. vatkeana, Boeck. in Allgem. Bot. 
Zeitschr, 1896, 55. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: in lofty pastures near Lopolla, 500 ft., Welwitsch, 
1674! Ovamboland, Hépfner, 82! 
Mozamb. Dist. British East Africa: Urungy; Fwambo, 5250 ft. Nutt ! 
Carson, 66! 
All the Fwambo examples differ a little from Welwitsch’s Angolan type by 
having the stems sub-bulbous at the base. 
6. A. elata, Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 79. Stems ite 
in. long, densely tufted, rather slender, the sheaths black, ultimately 
torn into fibres. Leaves rather numerous, $ the length of the stem, 
linear. Head 3 in. in diam., hemispheric, snow-white, otherwise ee 
A. speciosa.—C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. a 
including var. 8. gracilior ; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 101- 
Antrolepis elata, Welw. Apont. 578. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; in marshy places, betw a 
Condo and Quisonde, not far from the River Cuanza, 3500-3800 ft., Welwitser, 
1670! Malange, Mechow, 332! 
The stamens are usually 2; when 3, they are anticous as usual, not as depicted 
by Welwitsch, 
7. A. pusilla, Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 164, ee 
Jig. 10-14. Glabrous. Stems 2-6 in. long, annual, tufted, a 7 
Leaves 3 the length of the stem, setaceous. Head 4—} in. ar rade 
straw-coloured, of 3 (rarely 2-1) distinct densely-flowered sp! a Si 
bracts 2-3, up to 1-3 in. long, spreading or pendent. Spikelets 1 
in. long when young; in fruit elongating, with the lower glumes a 
nuts caducous seriatim from the base, as in Lipocarpha. semis ng 
narrow-oblong, shorter than the squamelle. Squamella 7!:—y'5 '- rg 
of thick loose tissue, broadly obovate, truncate ; rostrum marae 
minute, margins enrolled round the nut, overlapping, free to the id 
in Barter n. 761. Nut 4 the length of the squamella, oblong-ellipso 
subtrigonous, smooth, dark chestnut-coloured. Style } the feng the 
the nut; branches 3, linear, short, hardly exserted above the rim 0 
