Kyllinga.'] clvi. cyperace/E (clarke). 27:^ 



XtKozamb. Dlst. Portuguese East Africa : Between Shire River and Shupanjra, 



Stewart ! 



Very general in the warmer parts of the Old World, especially near the sea. 



This plant is frequent in the Mascarene Isles, but only known in Africa by the 

 two examples above cited, which may easily have been introduced. From the New 

 World two examples only have been seen, one from Bahia, the other from Buenos 

 Ay res. 



6. K. brevifolia, Rottb. Descr. etic. l?>, t. i^fig. 3. Rhizome creeping, 

 2-8 in. long, rarely more than -^^ in. thick. Stems usually distant, 

 sometimes contiguous, not thickened by basal sheaths. Leaves longer 

 than the stem or scarcely J its length, J in. broad. Head of 1 (some- 

 times of 2-3) spike rarely more than ^ in. in diam., ovoid, of many 

 spikelets, green finally dusky brown ; bracts 3-4, similar to the leaves, 

 lowest up to 4-5 in. long, or (in the short-leaved examples) only 1-2 in. 

 long, patent. Spikelets y^^ in. long, each perfecting 1 nut. Nut- 

 bearing glume acute, mostly without glands ; keel not winged, neiirly 

 always scabrous. Nut J-| the length of the glume, yellow-brown. — 

 Vahl, Enum. ii. 380 ; Kunth, Enum. ii. 130; Boeck. in Linnaja, xxxv. 

 424 (excl. some plants cited), and in Flora, 1881, 79 ; C. B. Clarke in 

 Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 588, and in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 

 Afr. V. 527 (excl. Welwitsch, 6781); Urban, Symb. Antill. ii. 11; 

 Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 277 ? SckcEniis coloraius, Linn. 

 Sp. PI. ed. 2, 64. 



Upper Guinea. Niger Territory : Old Calabar, JRobh ! Niger Expedition, 

 without precise locality, Vog.el, 37 ! 



JtO'weT Guinea. Lower Congo : Stanley Pool, Buettner, 11 (ex Durand ^ 

 Schinz); Sicia, Dupuis, 21 (ex Durand 8^ Schinz). 



Abundant throughout the hot regions of the world, but very scarce iu Conti- 

 nental Africa. 



K. Schumann (in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 123) records K. hrevifolia, Rottb. from 

 ■five of his regions (including Cameroons, Gaboon, Niamniam, and Zanzibar). How 

 far this distribution is founded on plants that 1 have not seen, or how far it is com- 

 piled from collections wrongly named hremfoli" that I have seen, 1 am altogether in 

 doubt. 



7. K. pauciflora, Ridley in Traiis. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Iht. ii. 147, t. 

 23, Jig. 1-4. Rhizome horizontal. Stems approximate, 4-20 in. 

 long, acutely triquetrous at the top. Head of 1 spike, ^ in. in diam., 

 ovoid, of 6-12 spikelets, when young sometimes golden-tinged ; bracts 

 3, lowest up to 5 in. long, similar to the leaves. Spikelets lanceolate, 

 1 in. long, each perfecting 1 nut. Nut-bearing glume lanceolate, 

 acute ; keel smooth, without wing. — C. B. Clarke in Durand (t Schinz, 

 Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 530, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 152; Rendle in 

 Cat. Afr. PI. Welw, ii. 105. 



Iiower Guinea. Angola : Huilla, 5000 ft., Welwitsch, 6811 ! 



Also in Natal. 



This very critical species comes between K. hrevifolia and K. erccta, themselves 

 hardly separable: it differs from both in the longer, elongate-lanceolate, glumes ; 

 the small number of spikelets may be accidental. 



