512 CLVI, CYPERACEE (CLARKE). | Lriospora. 
Stems hairy. Inflorescence much less copious, 
Stems with 4-7 spikes. Hypogynous hairs exces- 
sively fine . : : : : 4 . 4. E. Oliveri. 
Stems with about 30 spikes. Hypogynous bristles 
stiff, scabrid A ‘i 3 A ° . 5. £&. villosula. 
1. E. pilosa, Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. xiv. 30, t. 1842. Minutely and 
thinly hairy. Base of stem decumbent, 2-3 by ? in. including the densely 
packed leaf-bases. Stems 1-2 ft.long, triquetrous, glabrous. Leaves 8-12 
by + in.; sheaths triquetrous, mouth entire and closed by a depressed 
rounded ligule as in most Sclerias. Panicle 4-12 by 1-3 in., the lowest: 
peduncle remote; peduncles often 4—10 from each axil, capillary, some 
again paniculately divided. Spikes ovoid, }—} in. long, straw-coloured, 
of 6-20 spikelets, solitary ; peduncle to the spike ,4,—} in. ; bracts to 
the spikelets ovate, acuminate, shortly mucronate. Spikelets i; in. 
long. Nut 5 in. long; hypogynous sete 4 the length of the nut, 
exceedingly slender, nearly simple.—C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, 
Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 676. Trilepis pilosa, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxix. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: Afram Plains, Johnson, 708! Lagos: Isheri, 
Lagos Government, 11! interior of western Lagos, Rowland! Niger Territory 
Nupe, Barter, 1560! 
Var. 8 longipes, C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 676. 
Spikes rather larger, purple-brown, bracts to the spikelets more mucronate ; 
peduncles to the spikes longer, sometimes up to 3 in. long. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: “common on bare rocky gneiss, eaten by 
deer,” Scott-Elliot, 5644! 
2. E. abyssinica, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 508. Stems com- 
pactly tufted, perennial, 1-2 ft. high, compressed at the base, round- 
trigonous upwards, glabrous. Leaf-sheaths very stout, straw-coloured, 
much imbricated, strongly striate, split as in grasses with a ring of 
minute hairs in the mouth. Leaves 4-16 by } in., nearly smooth, 
tough, much rolled up in the dry state. Panicle 8-14 in. long, with 
usually several peduncles arising from each sheath; these peduncles 
3-6 in. long often carrying narrow panicles, nearly smooth. Spikes 
$+} in. long, ovoid or ellipsoid, pale-brown or brown; bracts to 
spikelets ovate, acuminate, sometimes mucronate. Spikelets 4-3 1- 
long. Nut including the beak 4-+ in. long, long attenuate from a 
ovoid base, smooth, more or less scabrous on the 3 angles of the beak 5 
hypogynous hairs about 4 the length of the nut (beak included), 
numerous, simple.—Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. 11. 166 ; 
C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 676; Engl. 
Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 150; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl]. Welw. 1. 182. 
Rynchospora trigyna, Hochst. in Flora, 1841, i. Intell. 21. Trileps 
abyssinica, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxix. 9. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: Tigre ; Mount Semayata, Schimper, 233 ! Begemeder ? 
Anadehr, 7800 ft., Schimper, 578! - 
Lower Guinea. ‘Angola: Loanda, 1000 ft., Welwitsch, 7157! Pungo 
