284 CLVi. CYPERAciLE (clarke). [KylUnga, 



long, 3-2-flowered, each often perfecting 2 nuts. Nut-bearing glume 

 ovate, 2-3-nerved on each side, keel wingless, smooth, excurrent into a 

 recurved short bristle. Style hardly any ; branches 2, long. Nut 

 more than J the length of the glume, ellipsoid, straw-coloured or 

 scarcely brown. 



Wile 3«and. British East Africa : Ruwenzori ; Kivata, common up to 8000 ft., 

 Scott-ElUot, 7554 ! 



Scott-Elliot has marked this "common," perhaps not distinguishing it from 

 K. erecta, to which it is perhaps allied ; it differs in being stouter with larger spikea 

 and the glumes with recurved points. The greater number of flowers might be due 

 "^to luxuriance merely. 



28. K. chrysantha, K. Schum.. inEngl.Pfl.Ost-Afr. C. 123. The- 

 lateral innovations (short stolons) at the base of the stems harden into a 

 rhizome seen J in. long. Stems 8 in. long, slender, hardly thickened at 

 the base. Leave^' shorter or longer than the stem, hardly attaining 

 ^ in. in breadth. Head of 3-1 spikes, golden-yellow; bracts 3-4^ 

 lowest up to 3 in. long, similar to the leaves. Middle spike ovoid, very 

 dense, \ in. broad, rather longer than broad. Spikelets ^ in. long, 

 rather narrow, each often perfecting 2 nuts. Nut-bearing glume 

 elliptic-lanceolate, strongly striate, hardly acute ; keel wingless, smooth. 

 Nut |- the length of the glume, oblong-ellipsoid. 



nCozamb. Dlst. German East Africa : Karagwe ; Bukoba, StuMmann, 3227 ! 

 Ihangiro, StuMmann, 901 ! British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; among rocks at 

 Namasi, near Zomba, Cameron, 92 ! 



The Cape K. tetragona is the nearest ally to this. 



29. K. pulchella, XuTit^, Enum. ii. 137. Stolons very slender ; 

 rhizome seen J in. long, very slender. Stems 6-18 in. long, hardly 

 bulbous at the base. Leaves often as long as the stem, yV'i ^^- t)road. 

 Head of 3-1 spikes, deep chestnut-coloured ; bracts 3, lowest up to 3 in. 

 long, similar to the leaves. Middle spike attaining f by J in., usually 

 smaller, sometimes scarcely :J in. long, ovoid. Spikelets numerous, J— i- 

 in. long, each perfecting 3-1 nuts. Nut-bearing glume ovate, acumi- 

 nate, mucronate, obscurely nerved on the sides, black- or rusty- 

 chestnut ; keel green or greenish-yellow, wingless, smooth. Nut J the 

 length of the glume, ellipsoid, brown. — Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 102; 

 A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 494 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, sxxv. 405 ; C. B. 

 Clarke in Durand <fe Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 531, and in Dyer, Fl. 

 Cap. 154 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 145. K. atrosaiiguinea, 

 Steud. in Flora, 1842, 598, and Syn. PI. Glum. ii. 69. 



xrile Ziand. Abyssinia : near Dubcmara, Schiinfer, 1269 ! Shireli ; banks of 

 the Eiver Tacazze, Quartin- Dillon Sf Petit ! Begeraeder ; Gottes Claudius, Schimper, 

 1302 ! 1313 ! near Gafat, ScMmper, 1315 ! aud without precise locality, Schimpevy 

 257! 1307! 1550! 



Also frequent in South Africa. 



30. K. oblonga, C. B. Clarice in Durand <£- Schinz, Conspect. FL 

 Afr. v. 530. Rhizome horizontal, short, thick, covered by black scales. 



