478 CLVI. CYPERACEE (CLARKE). [ Ascolepis. 
9. A. brasiliensis, (. 2. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 
Afr. v. 651. Stems attaining 2-24 ft. in length. Spikelets often 3-6 
in the head, less fused together than in 4. capensis, somewhat cinnamon- 
coloured. Ovary and nut stalked ; otherwise as A. capensis.—Platylepis 
brasiliensis, Kunth, Enum. ii. 269; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 119. 
Upper Guinea. French Guinea: Sulimania; Erimakuna, Scott-Elliot, 5243! 
Niger Territory : Nupe, Bartev, 1587! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Malange, Mechow, 346! 
Also in Madagascar, and throughout South America. 
This species is very close to 4. capensis. It is separated solely by the minute 
stalk to the nut. 
16. RYNCHOSPORA, Vahl; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 
1058 (Rhynchospora). 
Spikelets of 1 or more perfect flowers. Uppermost glumes male or 
sterile, the 3 lowest usually empty and smaller. Hypogynous bristles as 
long as the nut, or shorter, or often 0. Style long, limear, either 
minutely bifid at the tip (Series, aplostylee), or with two linear 
branches longer than the style (Series, Diplostylew) ; style base dilated, 
large or small, persistent. Nut obovoid to narrowly oblong, flattened. 
Species 184, i.e. including Psilocarya, but excluung Pleurostachys (Sect., Benth. 
et Hook. f.), throughout the World, especially abundant in America. 
This genus, from its 2-fid style, and persistent enlarged style-base, should not be 
mistaken for anything but Fimdristylis. From this, either the inflorescence or 1) 
the 1-headed species the hypogynous bristles separate it, except in the case of 
R. erinacea (which has nodes on the stem). 
*HAPLOSTYLER.—Style very long, minutely 2-fid at the top or subentire. 
Spikelets in one dense head; stem with no nodes 
between the head and the basal leaves. 
Head }-} in. in diam., rusty brown : . 1. BR. wallichiana, 
Head 1 in, in diam., white . : : : . 2. BR. erinacea. 
Globose heads several, rarely 1; stem with nodes 
throughont its length : : 
Panicle large, long-oblong, compound ; corymbs com- 
pound with many spikelets =. 5 : . 4, R.aurea. 
¥ eee ‘ + < } . er 
**DIPLOSTYLES. Style linear, about as long as the nut; branches 2, linear, long 
than the style. 
+Psilocarya. Hypogynous bristles 0. 
Spikelets ovoid, 4 in, long, producing several nuts, 
— 
3. R. cyperoides. 
white: <7, ; : : : A : . B, R. candida. 
Spikelets 34-\; in. long, perfecting 1 nut ; panicle 
compound with capillary branches. 6. R. micrantha. 
Spikelets 1 in. long, 3-5 in each small distant : 
corymb . : : - : P : . 7. BR. Bartert. 
++Eu-Rynchospora. Hypogynous bristles 6. cs . 8. R. glauca. 
1. R. wallichiana, ( B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. set 
Nearly glabrous. Rhizome 0, or very short, arising from lateral o i 
Stems tufted, 6-20 in. long, slender, with no nodes between the bas 
