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Thopical Africa. Angola : Benguella ; country of the 

 Ganguellas and the Ambuellas, Gossweiler. 



1530. Pycreus pubescens, Turrill [Cyperaceae-Scirpoideae} ; 

 P. angulato, Nees, affinis, sed culmis foliisque pnbescentibus, 

 nucibus minoribus truncatis differt. 



Rhizoma breve, horizontale. Culrni erecti, usque ad 8-5 dm. 

 alti, triangulares, sulcati, pubescentes, basi foliorum vaginis 

 baud vel leviter fibrosis obtecti. Folia linearia, acuta, usque 

 ad 3 dm. Jonga et 3 mm. lata, pagina superiore pubescentia, 

 inferiore dense pubescentia. Inflorescentia composita, radiis 

 circiter 4-5 usque ad 10-5 cm. longis 2-8-spiculatis ; bracteae 

 2-3, foliis similes, inter se inaequales, usque ad 16 cm. longae. 

 Spiculae ambitu elliptico-lanceolatae, multiflorae, 1-2 cm. 

 longae, 3-5-6 mm. latae. Glumae anguste ovato-oblongae, 

 acutae, circiter 5 mm. longae et 2-5 mm, latae, stramineae vel 

 pallide brunneae, glabrae, laeves, deciduae. Stamina 2, filamentis 

 usque ad 5 mm. longis, antlieris anguste Hnearibus 2-2 mm, longis. 

 Ovarium biconvexe obovoideum, lateraliter compressum, 1 mna. 

 altum, 0-75 mm. diametro ; stylus integer vel juventute cum ramis 

 duobus 2-5 mm. longis 3-5 mm. longus. Nux biconvexe obovata, 

 lateraliter compressa, truncata, 1-25 mm. alta, 1 mm. diametro, 

 nigra, styli basi baud dilatata persistente. 



Tropical Africa. Angola: Benguella; country of the 



Ambuellas 



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it a very distinct species of Pycreus. Similar hairy leaves and 

 stems are very uncommon in those Cyperaceae wliich have dis- 

 tichous glumos. The nuts are remarkably persistent on the 

 rhachis, and the style too is subpersistent, though it finally breaks 

 off, leaving its base attached to the —^^'^ ^ ^^-^ 4.^..^^o ^ o-^^^ 



of the nut as a short apiculus. The 



flowering period is oyer, and so in ripening nuts there appears to 



be an entire style. 



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LXHL— THE ECONOMIC PROPERTIES OF SOME 



HARDY ORNAMENTAL FRUITS. 



W. Dallimore. 



During the present autumn numerous enquiries have been 

 addressed to Kew regarding the domestic value of different kinds 

 of ornamental fruits. The following notes have therefore been 

 prepared in order to direct attention to some of the uses to which 

 such fruits have been or are at present applied. It is doubtful, 

 however, whether the thrifty housewife will consider the majority 

 of those which are wholesome worth the trouble and expense which 

 is necessary to make them palatable, for, when they are sufficiently 

 plentiful to warrant the trouble of gathering, cultivated fruits of 

 Jar superior quality are also usually abundant. Moreover, it^is 

 doubtful whether many of these fruits would survive the trial 

 stage for although our forefathers may have appreciated bletted 

 service berries, mountain ash beer and candied barberies, modern 

 taste prefers the more luscious fruits of the present day orchard. 



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