520 CLVI, CYPERACEE (CLARKE). [ Caren. 
14 in. long, rather slender. Basal leaves many, 20 by 5; in., tough, 
3-nerved. Panicle 9 in. long, thin, of few peduncles ; lowest peduncle 
6 by 2 in., almost capillary, with delicate little-divided branches and 
14 spikes; bracts overtopping the inflorescence. Spikes } by 4 in, 
very slender, with 8 utricles, male at the top. Female glumes ovate, 
acuminate, aristate, about 2 the length of the utricle, glabrous, 3—0- 
nerved on the back, yellowish-green, very thin, distant. Utricle (beak 
included) 4-1 in. long; beak longer than the small oblong-ellipsoid 
yellow-green glabrous delicate utricle, nearly linear, scabrous with 
2 short teeth. Nut ellipsvid, trigonous, filling the utricle.—C. eruciata ? 
Boott in Journ. Linn. Soe. vii. 225; C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, 
Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 681. C. filicina? Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 
152 in obs. 
Lower Guinea. Isle of St. Thomas: summit of the peak, Mann ! 
This is not near any form of C. cruciata, Nees; it may bea state of C. filicina, 
Nees; but no Indian example of C. filicina has such very slender peduncles aud 
utricles. 
13. C. spicato-paniculata, C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, 
Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 690. Glabrous, except the panicle-branches and 
utricles. Stems 2-3 ft. long. Leaves 18 by }-} in. Inflorescence up 
to 16 by 4 in., of 4—7 axillary peduncled compound pyramidal panicles ; 
panicle-branches densely pilose ; spikes 50-150 to a stem, 4 in. long, 
ovoid in fruit, with 6-8 utricles, male at the top. Female glumes ovate, 
acute, mucronate, as long as the utricles, bright ferrugineous-brown, 
glabrous, striate for nearly their whole breadth. Utricle (nearly ripe) 
green, 4 in. long (beak included), ellipsoid, contracted into a beak 
hardly 5 its own length, 12—15-ribbed, minutely hispid from the top to 
below the middle, straight; beak scabrous, with 2 lanceolate teeth ; 
nut ellipsoid, black, filling the atricle-—C. B. Clarke in Dyer, Fl. Cap. 
vii, 304. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Hannington ! 
Also in South Africa and the Mascarene Islands. 
There also may be conspecific with Hannington’s plant Scott-Elliot’s 6899 
(collected in Man District, British East Africa, at an elevation of 7000 ft.), with 
hairy utricles; and Schimper 1314 ? (collected in Abyssinia at Senka Berr), exceed- 
ingly young. 
14. C. Steudneri, Boeck. in Linnea, x1. 364. Glabrous except 
the minutely scabrous panicle-branches and utricles. Rhizome stout. 
Stems 2-4} ft. long, robust. Leaves 2 ft. by } in., stout. Panicle 11 | 
by 2 in., the partial panicles narrowly oblong, erect, dense, chestnut or 
deep brown; bracts overtopping the panicle. Spikelets { by ¢ in., 
with 6-8 utricles, male at the top. Female glumes elliptic-lanceolate, 
sometimes mucronate, rather shorter than the utricles, brown or chest- 
nut, hardly striate except near the keel, minutely hispid over the top 
of the back. Utricle exceeding + in. long, linear-lanceolate, triquetrous, 
densely hispid, beak about 4 the length of the utricle, linear, very 
hispid, deeply split at least on the convex face. Nut ;'5 in. long, 
