COL. GRANT—BOTANY ОЕ THE SPEKE AND GRANT EXPEDITION. 167 
Hab. Unyoro, Nov. 1862 (Ку тоа no. 2, in part, App. Speke's Journ. 654), Col. 
Grant ! 
22. KYLLINGIA BULBOCAULIS, Bæckel. MSS. in hb. Kew. Viridis v. glaucescens; 
fibrillis radicalibus tenuibus; culmo erecto, 5-6 poll. longo, basi valde bulboso-incrassato, 
vaginis emortuis fuscis valide nervosis tecto; foliis culmo plerumque multo longioribus, 
vaginis fissis, margine tenuissime membranaceo, albido; capitulo globoso-hemisphærico, 
4-5 lin. lato; involucri phyllis 2-3 reflexis, longioribus 8-4 poll. longis, anguste linearibus ; 
spiculis teretiusculis, leviter compressis, basi haud obliquis, 2-floris, flore tertio tabescente ; 
squamis chartaceo-membranaceis, concoloribus, alutaceis v. stramineis, convexis, ecarinatis, 
subtiliter multi- (10-)nervosis. 
Male flowers (3-androus) only were found by Dr. Bæckeler. I have not repeated an analysis. 
Hab. Karagué, Dec. 1861 (Kyllingia no. 1, App. Speke's Journ. 654), and Zanzibar, 
Col. Grant ! 
[Found on a hill-top, alt. 5500 feet, at Karagué, by water and rock, the flowers in a white tuft.— 
J. A. G.] 
28. ISOLEPIS ECHINOCEPHALA, Oliv., sp. nov. Culmo erecto e rhizomate fibroso, trian- 
gulari, striato, glabro; foliis elongatis, anguste linearibus, glabris, glaucescentibus, margine 
apicem versus scabriusculis; umbella multiradiata, radiis divergentibus, brevibus, valde 
inzequalibus, v. capitulis sessilibus; involucro 6-9-phyllo, phyllis patentibus decurvisve, 
foliis basilaribus similibus, 2-12 poll. longis; spiculis ovoideis ellipticisve, capitato-con- 
gestis, multifloris; capitulis subglobosis; squamis ellipticis obtusis, dorso apice crasse 
mueronatis, mucrone erecto; staminibus 3; setis hypogynis 0; stylo sursum gracillimo, 
2-fido; achænio ovali-oblongo, compresso, basi persistente styli rostrato. 
Culmus 14-3-pedalis. Folia 1-2 ped. longa, 13-23 lin. lata. Capitula 3-7 lin. diam. 
Hab. By the Nile, 27 N. lat., and near Khartoum (Cyperus no. 3, App. Speke's Journ. 
653), Col. Grant ! | 
We have apparently the same plant from the Niger (Barter, по. 1068). 
Plate СУП. fig. 1. Spikelet ; fig. 2. Flower (two stamens remaining) and glume; fig. 3. 
Ovary. 
24. ISOLEPIS BŒCKELERI, Oliv., sp. nov. Radice fibrosa; culmis erectis, firmis, 8-0 poll. 
longis, triangularibus, striatis, glabris, basi vaginis latis vetustis imbricatis quasi bulboso- 
dilatatis; foliis culmo longioribus, linearibus, longe acuminatis, glabris lævibusque, basi 
conduplicatis et late vaginatis; involucro 3-7-phyllo, phyllis foliaceis, patentibus у. de- 
curvis, longioribus 4-5 poll. longis; spiculis compluribus capitato-confertis, sessilibus, 
ovali-oblongis, 3 lin. longis, 6-floris; squamis hyalino-membranaceis, plurinervosis, late 
ovatis. lanceolatisve, obtusiusculis; caryopsi obovata v. late ellipsoidea, trigona, angulis 
obtusiuseulis prominentibus, faciebus lævibus; stylo pertenui, basi æquali usque fere ad 
medium 3-fido. Е | 
Allied, according to Dr. Boeckeler, to Isolepis expallescens, Kunth, Enum. РІ. ii. 196, а Cape species. 
Наб. Without any note of locality in Col. Grant's collection. It would appear to have 
` been confounded with Cyperus sphærocephalus? in App. Speke's Јошт. 654. 
25. ISOLEPIS SCHWEINFURTHIANA P, Beeckel., in Linnea, xxxvi. 758 (Scirpus). 
Hab, Mininga, April 1861 (Trichelostylis no. 1, App. Speke’s Journ. 654). 
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