^78 CLVi. CYPERACEiE (clarke). \Kyllinga. 



and in Flora, 1879, 515; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 0. 123 

 partly. 



Upper Guinea. Niger Territory : Nup.% Barter, ]586 1 



Xrile £and. British East Africa : Bongo ; by the Matju River, Schweinfurthy 

 4032! 



Iio-wer Guinea. Gaboon : near the Ogowe River, Soyaux, 2851 Congo Free 

 State : Kisantu, on the Inkissi River, Gillet, 1010 ! 1022 ! Angola : Pungo Andongo ; 

 in wet places on the Calemba Islands, in the River Cuauza, near Condo, Welwitsch, 

 6800 partly ! 



XMEozamb. Slst. German East Africa : Unyamwezi; Uyui, Taylor! British 

 Central Africa : -Nyasaland; Karonga, Scott ! 



Abundant in South America ; very rare in China and Malaya. 



The African specimens of this plant have been marked repeatedly K. brevifolia 

 bv Boeckeler, and Muthors have published accordingly. It differs much from 

 K. brevifolia in the rhizome, which is much thicker, with crowded uniseriate stems 

 and imbricated one-sided almost horny scales. It has also very constantly, 4 equal 

 subverticillate bracts (with somelimc^s a filth small one added), whereas in K. brevi- 

 folia the bracts are 3, and the lowest much the longest, 



17. K. peruviana. Lam. Encycl. iii. 366. Rhizome horizontal, 

 thick, closely covered by ovate rigid brown scales. Stems 12-20 in. 

 long, stout, contiguous and uniseriate on the rhizome. Leaves in the 

 typical state hardly any, but the barren shoots often have leaves, and 

 on some of the flowering stems the uppermost leaf is 8-12 in. long and 

 J-J in. broad. Head of 1 spike, globose, J in. in diam., dense; bracts 

 3, rarely exceeding 1 in. long. Spikelets -J-J in. long, each perfecting 

 1 nut. Keel of nut-bearing glume wingless, smooth. Nut J the length 

 of the glume, round-obovoid, brown. — C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, 

 Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 530 ; Urban, Symb. Antill. ii. 12. K. vaginata, 

 Lam. 111. i. 148; Vahl, Enum. ii. 381; Kunth, Enum. ii. 129; 

 Boeck. in Linnaea, xxxv. 416, and in Engl. Gazelle Reise, Bot. 16. 

 II. globosa, Beauv. Fl. Owar. i. 50. X. capitata, Beauv. Fl. Owar. i. 

 i>. 31. JC. aphylla, Kunth, Enum. ii. 127 ; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 

 552 ; Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Bot. v. 209. Mariscus aphyllus, Vahl, 

 Enum. ii. 373. Lyprolepis deij^udata, Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. ii. 130. 



Upper Cruinea. Senegal, Sieber, 5! JSoffer / Senegambia, Heudelot, 150! 

 449, 452 ! Gambia, Skiies ! Cape Verd Isles, Smith ! Sierra Leone, Don, ! 

 Vogel ! Liberia : Grand Bassa, Ansell ! Vogel, 30 ! Monrovia, Naumann (ex 

 Boec1celer)o Niger Territory: Oware & Benin, Beauvois ! Niger Delta; Nun 

 River, Vogel, 7 ! Mann, 455 I Brass, Barter, 63 ! 1849 ! Cameroons : Batanga, 

 Tocky beach south of Lobe Village, Bates, 116 ! 



Jaovrev Guinea. Princes Island, Quintas, 10 ! Rolas Island, Quintas, 125 ! 

 Gaboon, Jardin ! Corisco Bay,-Jfa»», 1893 ! 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State, Dewevre, 211 ! 



Plentiful in Tropical South America. 



The length of the leaves in this species is not a safe character. In Vogel's Grand 

 Bassa examples, correctly named by Bentham " K. aphylla" the leaves run to 10 in. 

 long ; and several other examples show fairly developed leaves. The species is diffi- 

 cult to separate from K. punqens. 



