406 
flowers brick-red, females green with purple stigma, 
eon odour. Hausa name “ Kunnen Jaki” (Donkey’s 
ar), root supposed cure for delayed childbirth, No. 159. 
Distrib. Se idionio to Northern Nigeria. 
CYPERACEAE. 
Pycreus flavescens, Reichb. ; F.T.A. — ~ 
Naraguta, 4000 ft., 1 ft. high, No. 
This and most of the remainder of oi: Monocotyledons here 
enumerated are widely spread in Tropical Africa 
compactus, Lam.; F.T.A. viii. 319. 
a ie ft., 18 ins. high, white sweet scented sedge 
No. 148. 
Vahl; F.T.A. 
Naraguta, 4000 ft., 15 Apr., 1 Tift. “high, No. 95. 
Haspan, Linn.; F.T.A. viii. 332. 
Lemme, 7 May, 2 ft. high, ae 154. 
Cyperus distans, Linn.; F.T.A. 
Naraguta, 23 June, 12-18 ins. high, ily 329. 
cul Linn. ; F.T.A. viii. 
Lemme, 2600 ft., 7 May, 12 ins. high, No. 149. 
xaltatus, var. dives, Delile; F.T.A. viii. 370. 
Nabardo, 25th May, 4-6 ft. high, No. 203. 
Mariscus umbellatus, Vahl; F.T.A. viii. 390. 
Taura, 6 May, 18 ins. high, No. 123. 
Jira, 2 May, No. 129 
Fimbristylis diphylla, ; Vahl F.T.A. viii. 415. 
Lemme, 7 May, 24 ft. high, No. 153. 
Fimbristylis monostachya, Vahl; F.T.A. viii. 
Rinjim Mukr, 2500 ft., 22 May, 6 ins. high, No. 221. 
Fuirena umbellata, Rotb.; F.T.A. viii. 466. 
Naraguta, 8 Aug., 2-3 ft., in ae ae No. 516. 
Lipocarpha albiceps, Ridley ; F .T.A. 471. 
Baradau, 3000 ft., 3 May, 1 ft. high, heads wie, No, 98. 
Ascolepsis protea, var. bellidiflora, Welw.; F.T.A. 474, 
Panyam, 4500 ft., 11 July, 6-8 ins. high, dtirs white, 
No. 411 
Eriospora pilosa, Benth. ; F.T.A. viii. 512. 
Top of Zaranda Mt., 18 May, No. 197. 
Distrib.—Upper Guinea. 
GRAMINEAE. 
gran Sw. ; FTA. ix 
Neraguia, 1 — 1-2 ft. high, a, No. 477. 
rufa, p PDA ox. 304. 
Ratugeia, 20 jon No. 292 
