518 - CLVI, CYPERACEH (CLARKE). [ Cares. 
the base, some male at the top. Female glumes } in. long, ovate, acute, 
in fruit pale brown and very thin. Utricle } in. long, sessile, ovoid- 
lanceolate, plano-convex, with 7-9 thin nerves on the convex face, 
hblack-green, smooth ; beak lanceolate, slightly scabrous on the margins. 
Style-branches 2, long. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Heboma, Holst, 2554! 
Kwa Mshuza, Holst, 8971 } 
K. Schumann justly compares this species with C. vulpina, Linn., from which it 
differs but little; the leaves are rather broader, while the utricle is smaller, less 
elongate, and gets very black when ripe. 
8. C. schimperiana, Boeck. in Linnea, xl. 373. Green, nearly 
glabrous. Rhizome short, woody, slender. Stems 8-24 in. long, 
slender. Leaves 8-12 by ;1,-} in. Inflorescence 8-14 by }-1} in., 
very thin, lower peduncles. remote with only 2—6 spikes. Spikes 4-3 
by 4-} in., uppermost with 3-5 utricles and a small oblong scarious- 
yellow male termination. Female glumes (including bristle) about as 
long as the utricle, ovate, 2 the length of the utricle, scarious white, 
glabrous, the green keel excurrent in a rough bristle. Utricle yz 1. 
long, ellipsoid, trigonous, glabrous, green, finally black-brown, with 
about 24 well-marked nerves; beak about } the length of the utricle, 
smooth ; nut ellipsoid, trigonous, quite filling the utricle.—C. B. Clarke 
in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 690; Engl. Hochgebirgstl. 
Trop. Afr. 152. C. ramosa, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 129 
partly, not of Schkuhr. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: Begemeder; near Debra Tabor, 8500 ft., Schimper, 
1318! British East Africa: Ruwenzori, 6000-8000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 7455! 
Mozamb. Dist. German Hast Africa: Usambara; Kwa Mshuza, Holst, 
8953! 
_ 9. ©. echinochloe, Kunze, Suppl. Schkuhr's Riedgr. 47, t. 12. 
Glabrous except the densely and minutely hairy branches of the panicle. 
Lateral basal offshoots equivalent to short stolons. Stems 13-8 ft. 
long. Leaves 14 by Jin. Panicle 6-14 by 2 in., oblong, lower peduncles 
remote, carrying oblong (not pyramidal) loose partial panicles 7 
6-30 spikes, bracts overtopping the panicles, or rather shorter. 
Spikes in fruit }-} by 1 in., greenish-yellow, with about 5-8 utricles, 
male at the top; lowest empty glume bract-like, often caudate with a 
bristle } in. long (whence the specific name); but sometimes on the 
type specimens the bristle is obsolete. Female glume as long as pes 
utricle, acuminate, shortly aristate, from a broad ovate base, several- 
nerved in the middle of the back, smooth, scabrous only on the bristle. 
Utricle (including beak) 1, in. long, broadly ellipsoid, trigonous, 
narrowed at each end, glabrous, with about 18 well-marked ribs ; beak 
scarcely 4 the length of the utricle, scabrid, shortly 2-toothed. ms 
ellipsoid, trigonous, dark-brown, not closely filling the utricle.—A. Rich. 
Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 513; Boott, Carex, i. 62, t. 166, and in Journ. 
Linn. Soe. vii. 226; Boeck. in Linnea, xl. 340; C. B. Clarke in Durand 
& Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 683; Eng]. Hochgebirgsfi. Trop. Afr. 
