136 cxLix. TYPHACE.E (brown). \Typha. 



Bot. Yer. Brandenb. xi. 8->. T. macranthelia, Webb & Berth. lies 

 Canar. Phyt. iii. 291, t. 218. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast : Quitta, Thonning. Lagos : Kradu Lagoon, 

 Barter, 3240 ! Guinea, Schumacher (ex Kronfeld). 



Wile Iiand. Eritrea : Goura, 6500 ft., Schtveinfurth Sf Riva, 922 ! British 

 East Africa : near Mombasa, Hildehrandt, 1229b ! 



]Low-er Guinea. German South-West Africa : Hereroland ; Kuisib River, at 

 Scheppmansdorf, Belck, 19 (ex Schinz). 



nxozamb. Slst. British Central Africa : Kya?aland ; Manganja Hills, abundant 

 by Lake Shivwa, Meller I Islands in the River Shire, below Katungo, Scott ! 



Also in South Africa. 



4. T. Schimpek'i, Rohrh. in VerhancU. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xi. 95. 

 Plant several ft. high. Leaves f-1 in. broad, narrowed to 5-7 lin. 

 broad at the base, where they are convex on the back. Male spike up 

 to 18 in. long, longer than the female and distant from it. Male 

 flowers with linear, obtuse bracteoles ; pollen compound, in tetrads. 

 Female flowers bracteolate ; bracteoles narrowly spathulate, much 

 longer than the hairs ; stigma spathulate-lanceolate, longer than the 

 bracteoles ; hairs simple. — Kronfeld in Verhandl. Zool.-Bot. GeselL 

 Wien, 1889, 166. T. elephantina, Schimp. ex Rohrb. in Yerhandl. 

 Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xi. 95, not of Roxb. T. elephantina, Eoxb., var. 

 Schimperi, Graebner in Engl. Pflanzenr. Typhacese, 11. 



Srile laand. Abyssinia : near Jaja, Schimper, 1479. 



I have not seen this species ; it is said to differ from T. elephantina, Roxb., by the 

 leaves being convex on the back at the base, instead of obtusely keeled. 



5. T. latifolia, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1,^11. Plant attaining a height 

 of 5-8 ft. Leaves J-1 in. broad, strap-shaped, obtuse, convex on th& 

 back at the base. Male and female spikes 4—12 in. long, subequal or 

 the female longer, contiguous, very rarely shortly separated. Male 

 flowers with linear, acute bracteoles, not forked, whitish ; pollen com- 

 pound, in tetrads. Female flowers without bracteoles ; stigmas lanceo- 

 late or spathulate-lanceolate, longer than the simple hairs. — Kunth, 

 Enum. PI. iii. 90 ; Rohrbach in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xi. 75^ 

 fig. 1 ; English Bot. ed. 3, 2, t. 1885 ; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. ix. 2, 

 t. 323; Kronfeld in Verhandl. Zool.-Bot, Gesell. Wien, 1889, 176^ 

 t. 5, fig. 11 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 470 ; Engl. Pfl. Ost- 

 Afr. C. 93 ; Graebner in Engl. Pflanzenr. Typhacese, 8. T. angustifoliay 

 A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 350, partly, ex Rohrbach. 



"Stile Kand. Abyssinia : Shire, Quartin- Dillon Sr Petit (ex Sohrbach). 

 Mozanib. X>lst. German East Africa : Usambara, ex Angler. 

 I have not seen a specimen of this species from Tropical Africa; it is widely distri- 

 buted in Europe, Asia, and North America. 



6. T. capensis, Rohrh. in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xi. 96. 

 Plant attaining a height of 6-7 ft., glabrous. Leaves 2-7 Hn. broad^ 

 linear or strap-shaped, obtusely pointed, convex on the back at the 

 base Male and female spikes subequal or the female longer, 3|-7 



