506 CLVI. CYPERACEZ (CLARKE). | Scleria. 
smooth, white; disc obpyramidal, truncated, with a narrow. rusty 
brown rim, hardly 3-lobed.— Kunth, Enum. ii. 356; C. B. Clarke in 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 691, and in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. 
Fl. Afr. v. 673; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxviii. 492 (orizoides). S. cortacea, 
G. Bertol. in Rendiconti Accad. Bologna, 1854, 34, and in Mem. Accad. 
Scienz. Istit. Bologna, ser. 1, v. 474, t. 27, fig. 1-8, not of Liebm. 
S. Bertolonit, Martens in Flora, 1857, 570. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Zanguebar, Kirk, 4! Portuguese East 
Africa : Mozambique, Bertoloni. 
Also in India, Malaya and Tropical Australia. 
35. S. melanomphala, Kunth, Enum. ii. 345. Robust, hairy, 
or more often glabrate, except the inflorescence. Rhizome creeping, 
qs} in. in diam. Stems 2-3 ft. long, very scabrous or nearly smooth 
on the 3 angles. Leaves up to 24 by 4 in., very scabrous on the 
margins; sheaths triquetrous or narrowly winged. Inflorescence 
straggling 1-2 ft., compound, the partial panicles (often long peduncled) 
dense, oblong or almost linear. Spikelets 1-sexual, }-4 in. long, 
commonly green broadly marked with chestnut, but frequently green, 
sometimes pale brown. Nut } in. long exclusive of the disc, ovoid, 
smooth, white, the tip often black. Hypogynous disc obpyramidal, 
Jarge, black-red, glandular, the margin triangular, yellow; lobes 0, 
except so far as represented by the margin.—Boeck. in Linnea, 
xxxviii, 476; Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 171; 
C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 672, incl. the 
var., and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 296 ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl, Ost-Afr. C- 
129; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 310; Rendle in Cat. Afr. 
Pl. Welw. ii. 134. 8. macrantha, Boeck. in Flora, 1879, 572, not 
Boeck. in Flora, 1858, 647. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone; near Franziga, Scott-Elliot, 5046! 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Niamniam; in a swamp at Huuh (Hoo) 
River, Schweinfurth, 3746! Uganda; Buddu, Scott-Elliot, 7482! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Stanley Pool, 900 ft., Hens, B, 67! Kisantu, 
Gillet, 321! 323! Angola: Huilla; by streams near Lopollo, Welwitsch, 7144+ 
Pungo Andongo; marshy banks of streams near Quilongo, Welwitsch, 7145! 
South Central. Congo Free State, Dewevre, 712A! Nlempu, Butaye ! 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Shire Highlands, 
Buchanan, 51! Mount Zomba Plateau, 5000-6000 ft., Whyte ! Tanganyika Plateau 
at Fort Hill, 4300-6000 ft., Whyte ! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 691! 
Also in South Africa and Madagascar. 
The black apex of the nut often fixes this species at a glance, but it is some” 
times perfectly white. 
36. S. spiceeformis, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 556. Somewhat 
hairy. Rhizome horizontal, 1 in. in diam. Stems 16—24 in. long, $ in. 
in diam., leaf-sheaths 3-winged. Leaves 8 by 4 in. Partial panicles 
oblong, dense, 2 in. long, on very shortly exserted remote axillary 
peduncles. Spikelets exceeding } in. in length, dusky brown. Nut 76 “ai 
in diam., globose-ellipsoid, white, smooth, with about 40 longitudina 
