Seleria. | CLVI. CYPERACEH (CLARKE). 503 
capillary, }-2} in.long, nodding. Nut-bearing spikelets exceeding } in. 
in length, pale yellow-green or purple-red; bract to a spikelet about 
as long as it, narrowly lanceolate. Nut ellipsoid, $~} in. long, hardly 
apiculate, strongly reticulated, glabrous, white or discoloured leaden- 
purple; dise short funnel-shaped, pallid, the 3 short lobes ovate, thin, 
straw-coloured, suberect.—Boeck. in Linnwa, xxxviii. 472; Ridley in 
Trans. Linn. Soe. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 170; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 
151; C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 670; 
Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 134. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Begemeder Province, Schimper, 1236! 1271! 1336! 
and without precise locality, Schimper, 1603 ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; in the higher meadows of Pedras 
de Guinga and Matta de Quilanga, and between Caghuy and Sansamanda, Wel- 
witsch, 7124! 
25. S. foliosa, A. Rich. Tent. £71. Abyss. ti. 509. Lowest axillary 
peduncle hardly exserted from the sheath. Nut ovoid rather than 
ellipsoid ; otherwise as S. clathrata.—Boeck. in Linnea, xxxviii. 455; 
Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 170; Engl. Hochgebirgsfi. 
Trop. Afr. 150; C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. 
v. 670; K. Schum. in Engl. Pil. Ost-Afr. C. 128; Rendle in Cat. Afr. 
Pl. Welw. ii. 134. S. Dilloniz, Boeck. in Flora, 1878, 38. S. dwmicola, 
Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 169. S. Hildebrandtii, 
K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 129 partly. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: damp places near Gafta, Schimper, 1332! Plain of 
Hamedo, 6000 ft., Schimper, 210! Shireh Province, Quartin-Dillon § Petit! 
British East Africa: Unyoro, Speke § Grant ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo, in wet places ; between Quilanga 
and Pedras de Guinga, Welwitsch, 7122! and in meadows on the banks of the 
River Cuanza, near Muta-Lucala, }) elwitsch, 7123! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Taylor! German East Africa: Usambara; Doga, 
Hoist, 3218! 
The stems vary in length from 6 to 24 in., the leaves vary up to 18 by ¢ in. 
The spikelets are chestnut-purple to pale brown. Nearly the whole of the present 
section are exceedingly alike in general appearance; in the Shireh examples two 
tufts of S. foliosa are mixed with 3 of S. schimperiana, and it would be very difficult 
to sort them without looking at the nut. 
26. S. glandiformis, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxviii. 458. _ Nearly 
glabrous, except the ligule. Rhizome hardly any. Stems 16-24 in. 
long. Leaves up to 12 by } in. Lower peduncles remote, nearly 
included in the sheath of the bract, carrying oblong inflorescences with 
6~12 nuts, whence bracts $—-1 in. long diverge. Spikelets nearly 4 in. 
loug, straw-coloured marked with brown. Nut 4 in. long, cylindric, 
obtuse, tessellated, glabrous ; disc short, pallid, the 3 lobes ovate, erect, 
straw-coloured, hardly longer than the stalk of the nut.— Boeck. in 
Flora, 1879, 571; C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. 
V. 071. 
