ON CENTRAL-AFRICAN PLANTS. 27 
sp., Burchell, Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, vol. i. p. 538, note 
(1822). 
This species has a wide distribution in Africa, occurring also in Upper Guinea, in the 
Transvaal, in the South-African Gold-fields, and in Damaraland, also in the southern 
part of the Kalahari region, as under :— 
Burchell, no. 1992. « Parvus, spiculis albis." Between Klaarwater (or Kárrikamma) 
and Wittewater (or Gáttikamma), 14th February 1812. 
Burchell, no. 2613. ** Planta basi caespitosa, basibus foliorum pseudo-bulbosa ; culmus 
setaceus, folia setacea excedens; spiculee 2-4, lanceolatz, albz." Between Knegt’s 
Fontein and Klip Fontein, on the morning of 26th December 1812. It was at this place 
and at this time that Burchell also collected Panicum nigropedatum, Munro, given 
in the enumeration below, page 29. 
Serpa Pinto, no. 61. 
90. CYPERUS ROTUNDUS, L. Fl. Zeylan. n. 36 (1747); І. Sp. Pl. edit. i. p. 45 (1753); 
Kunth, Enum. Cyperac. p. 58 (1837); Steud. Syn. Pl. Cyperac. p. 32, n. 351 (1855); 
Caruel, Prodr. Fl. Tose. p. 670 (1864); Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. p. 283, n. 213 
(1869) ; var. ? 
Our specimen has extant none of the lower leaves of the plant; and its specific 
identification must remain uncertain. The species named is widely dispersed over most 
hot and warm countries; and numerous varieties occur. The type specimen in Hermann's 
Ceylon herbarium, part of the Banksian collection in the British Museum, has been 
compared ; and in it the scales are more strongly ribbed than in our specimen. 
Serpa Pinto, no. 67. 
31. SCIRPUS NINDENSIS, sp. п. $.czspitosus minute hirtellus bipollicaris vel tripollicaris, 
radicibus fibrosis capillaribus, culmis numerosis capillari-filiformibus rectis erectis 
vel suberectis valde inzqualibus nonnullis brevissimis angulari-suleatis minute 
scabrido-hirtellis longioribus 2—3-pollicaribus folia longiora vix excedentibus basi 
foliatis, foliis insequalibus longioribus capillari-filiformibus acutis canaliculatis 
dorso sulcatis carinatis minute hispidulo-hirtellis basim versus dilatato-vaginantibus 
margine membranaceis sparse ciliatis, vaginis brevibus fissis pallide fuscis, spi- 
culis solitariis terminalibus anguste ovoideo-oblongis acutiusculis $-1-pollicaribus 
plurifloris, bracteis nullis vel squamas simulantibus, squamis imbricatis ovatis longe 
apiculatis erectis glabris vel puberulis demum glabris inferioribus longioribus dorso 
viridi-carinatis lateribus pallidis fuscescentibus, staminibus 3, caryopsi parva late 
obovoidea obtuse triquetra pallida vel subfusca transversim rugosula, angulis 
linea elevata levi fusca notatis, apice tuberculo minimo persistente notata, stylo 
trifido exserto. 
Nearly related to Scirpus spherocarpus, Boeck. in Linnza, xxxvi. p. 741, n. 107 (1870), 
but differs by the 3-sided not globose fruit &с. 
Serpa Pinto, no. 68. 
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