Rynchospora. | CLYI. CYPERACEH (CLARKE). 481 
South Central. Congo Free State: Monbuttu; Minzi, Schweinfurth, 3495! 
and without precise locality, Demeuse, 134! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Hildebrandt, 1232! 
Throughout the warmer regions of both hemispheres, 
5. R. candida, (. B. Clarke in Durund & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. 
v. 653. Nearly glabrous. Stolons slender, clothed by ovate-lanceolate 
striate dusky-straw-coloured scales, hardening into creeping rhizomes 
Stems 8-20 in. long, rather slender with distant nodes throughout their 
length. Leaves often nearly as long as the stem, ;1,—4 in. broad. Corymb 
terminal, lax, of 1-16 spikelets, somewhat level-topped, with a smaller 
remote axillary corymb sometimes added; pedicels rather rigid, with 
one spikelet. Spikelets } in. long, ovoid, very white, with many (or 3 
at least) nut-bearing flowers. Glumes numerous, ovate, obtuse, densely 
imbricate in many spirals, deciduous seriatim from the lowest (empty 
included), outer concave nerveless, inner somewhat keeled. Hypogynous 
bristles 0. Style linear, longer than the nut ; branches 2, linear, longer 
than the style. Nut very small, about + the length of the glume, 
biconvex, round, sessile, yellow-brown, trausversely wavy ; style-base 
large, saddle-shaped, as broad as the nut, persistent.—Rendle in Cat. 
Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 132. R. adscendens, C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, 
Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 652. Psilocarya candida, Nees in Mart. F). 
Bras. ii. i, 117. Rhynchospora candida, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 605 ; 
K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 127. Dichromena candida, Ridley 
in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 149. Pachymitra candida, Nees ex 
Boeck. 1. c. 606. 
Upper Guinea. Lagos, Barter, 20178! Old Calabar, Rodd ! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Kisuntu Gillet, 522! Kimuenza, Giélle?, 
1772! Angola: Huille ; damp places near Monino, Welwitsch, 6840! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: between Lake Tanganyika and Lake 
Rukwa, 6900 {t.. Nutt! Briti-h Central Atrica : Nyasaland; Shire Highlands, 
uchanan, 5! 
Also in Madagascar, Guiana and Brazil. 
6. R. micrantha, Vahl, Enum. ii. 231 partly. Glabrous, slender. 
Roots fibrous. Stems tufted, 4-16 in. long, with distant nodes through- 
out their length. Leaves 4-8 by ;4,-4 in. Panicle oblong, usually 
Compound, with divaricate capillary branches and pedicels. Spikelets 
¥o-zs in. long, ovoid, each perfecting 1 nut. Hypogynous bristles 0. 
Style as long as the nut; branches 2, linear, longer than the style. 
Nut 51, in. long, sessile, obovoid, flattened, yellow-brown, with 4—5 strong 
transverse wrinkles; style-base saddle-shaped, as broad as the nut, 
much depressed.—C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. 
V. 654; Urban, Symb. Antill. ii. 117. Rhynchospora micrantha, Roem. 
&Schultes, Syst. Veg. ii. 84 partly, not of Mant. 45; Boeck. in Linnea, 
Xxxvil. 608.  Zosterospermum gracile, Desv. in Hamilt. Prod. Ind. 
Occid. 14; Kunth, Enum. ii. 536. Psilocarya Teneriffe, Torrey in Ann. 
Lyceum New York, iii. 362 in note. Dichromena micrantha, Kunth, 
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