486 CLV1. CYPERACE® (CLARKE). [Remirea. 
terminal in the top glume. Hypogynous bristles 0. Stamens 3, 
unilateral; anthers crested. Style linear; branches 3, long 2 base 
gradually continuous into the top of the ovary. Nut ellipsoid or linear- 
oblong, trigonous, sessile, smooth, often curved. 
Species 1, widely distributed. 
The position of the stamens, the curvature of the nut, as well as the fine drawings 
prepared for Sir William Hooker, show that the flower is here really lateral; the 
inflorescence may be compared with that of Gahnia. 
1. R. maritima, Awbl. Pl. Guian. i. 45, t. 16. Glabrous. Rhizome 
js} in. in diam., creeping, seen 20 in. long. Stems distant, or tufted 
near the tip of the rhizome, }—4 in. long, without nodes between the 
basal leaves and the inflorescence, but usually clothed with leaf-sheaths 
nearly theix whole length, or the inflorescence in the short-stemmed 
examples seems sunk among the leaves. Leaves 1-3} in. long, dense, 
rigid, tapering from a base often + in. wide or more. Bracts 2-6, up 
to 1-2 in. long, similar to the leaves. Spikes 3-7 to the head, sessile, 
$—3 in. long, with about 30 spikelets, ovoid, dense, straw-coloured or 
dusky. Spikelets {1 in. long, ellipsoid. Glumes ovate, triangular at 
the tip, the 3 lower empty and much inrolled. Nut % the length ot 
the glume, chestnut-coloured.— Beauv. FI. Owar. ii. 23, t. 73 ; Schumach. 
Beskr. Guin. Pl. 43; Kunth, Enum. ii. 139; Benth. in Hook. Niger 
Fl..552; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 435; Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
ser. 2, Bot. ii. 165; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 677, and 
in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 665 ; Urban, Symb. Antill. i. 
136; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 132. R. pedunculata, R. Br. 
Prod. 236; Kunth. Enum. ii. 139. : 
Upper Guinea. Guinea, Thonning, 377! Smeathmann! Jardin! Sierra 
Leone, Don! Niger Delta: River Nun, Mann, 534! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Congo ; on the sea-shore not far from the mouth of 
the River Onco or Onzo, Welwitsch, 6990! 
Widely distributed in the tropics. 
22. HYPOLYTRUM, L. C. Rich. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pi. i. 
1054. 
Spikelets numerous, in dense oblong or globose spikes, small, of 2 or 
3 glumes and 3 flowers. Two lowest glumes opposite (or nearly 80), 
not rarely more or less connate at the base, boat-shaped or keeled, 
usually hairy on the keel, oblong or elliptic, each containing one stamen 
and regarded here as a male flower; third glume lateral or a 
smaller, empty. or in the African species usually 0; female flower 5 
minal on the axis of the spikelet without any glume. Style wey 
enlarged at the base; branches 2, long. Nut small, obovoid, flattene ; 
the large style-base usually neatly fused with it.—Spikes corymbose. 
Species 39, in the Tropical regions of both hemispheres. ie 
*FoLlcEer®. Stem with 1 or 2 nodes far above the base that bear long leaves 
Lowest bract overtopping the inflorescence. 
Leaves linear, caudate; stems 15-30 in, long, with 
50-150 spikes. 1. H. nemoruime 
