504 CLVI, CYPERACE# (CLARKE), [ Scleria. 
. Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heude/ot,662! Niger Territory: Nupe, Barter, 
1042 ! 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2389 
partly ! 2500! 
27. S. globonux, C. 2. Clarke in Durand &: Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 
Afr. v. 671. Leaves with spreading hairs or glabrate. Nut large, 
globose, tessellate, margins of the reticulations glandular or minutely 
hairy ; 3 lobes of the dise subquadrate ; otherwise as S. glandiformis.— 
S. tessellata, Boeck. in Flora, 1879, 571, not of Willd. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Jur; Jur Ghattas. Schweinfurth, 2560! 
S. tessellata, Willd., is a common plant in India. All the species of the 
Tessellate series are very closely allied ; as to the present plant, it appears doubt- 
folly distinct from S. glandiformis. 
28. S. nyasensis, ('. B. Clarke. Nearly glabrous. Stems 1-2 ft- 
long. Leaves 4-8 by 1 in. Lowest peduncle remote, often exserted, 
1-4 in., filiform, flexuose and nodding, divided with 8—15 spikelets. 
Spikelets } in. long. oblong, from straw-coloured to chestnut. Nut 
7g in. long (considerably smaller than in the preceding species), cylindric- 
ellipsoid, tessellate, white or often dusky, nearly glabrous; disc nearly 
truncate, the division into 3 lobes obscure. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; near Mount Sochi, _ 
3000 ft., Kirk! Mount Zomba, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte? Mount Malosa, 4000- 
6000 ft., Whyte! 
Near S. clathrata, A. Rich., but the inflorescence much more copious in spikelets, 
and the nut smaller. 
29. S. complanata, Boeck. in Flora, 1879, 571. Stem 3 ft. long, 
minutely rough from rusty downwards-pointing points. Nut small, 
subglobose, coarsely tessellated, pale or discoloured bluish ; otherwise 
ee foliosa.—C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 
70. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2389 
partly ! 
Perhaps only a variety of S. foliosa or of S. glandiformis : the nut is sensibly 
smaller, 
30. S. schimperiana, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxviii. 466. Slightly 
hairy or glabrate. Rhizome 0. Stems 16 in. long. Leaves 1? by 
% in., tapering at the tip. Lowest axillary peduncle exserted 1-2? 1”, 
flexuose, slender, thickened triangular at the top, carrying Sb: ae 
Female spikelets } in. long, chestnut-brown. Nut large, depressed- 
globose, smooth, white ; 3 lobes of the dise small, oblong, obtuse, pallid. 
—Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 150; C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, 
Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 674. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: Begemeder; Senka Berr, 7500 ft., Schimper, 1235! 
Var. hypoxis, C. B. Clarke, Leaves } in, broad and upwards, very — 
the tip. Lover peduncles stouter.—S. hypovis, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxviii, 465. 
Wile Land. Gallabat: region of Matamma, Schweinfurth, 2054! 
