Pycreua.^ clvi. cyperaceje (clarke). 297 



Alger. Glum. 253 ; Aschers. & Schweinf. 111. FI. Egypte, ir>5 ; Ridley 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 127. C. odoratua, Linn. Sp. PI. 

 ed. 1, 46, ed. 2, 68, and herb, propr. mainly. C. intactus, Vahl, 

 Enum. ii. 332 ; Kunth, Enum. ii. 14. C. Sonderi, J. A. Bchmidt, lieitr. 

 Fl. Cap. Yerd. Ins. 162. C. complanatus^ Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. ii. 

 3 partly. C. elongatus, Steud. I.e. 11. C. tetraphyllus^ Beauvois ex 

 Kunth, Enum. ii. 13. C, fvotr actus, Delile, Fl. Aegypt. 111. 50. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur ! Heudelot, 444 ! Cajjc Verd iHlands : 

 St. Nicolao, Bolle ! Sierra Leone, Vogel ! Liberia: Cape Palmas, Arvtell ! Mon- 

 rovia, Herh. Berlin ! Gold Coast : Accra, Brown, 30 ! Niger Territory : bank* 

 of the River Nun (Niger), Mann, 530 ! Vogel, 11 ! and without precise locality, 

 Vogel, 35 ! 



ITlle Iiand. British East Africa: Bahr el Ghazal, Schweinf urih, 1152 1 

 Tsimba (Shitnba) Hills, Taylor ! 



T»oygreT Guinea. Gaboon River, Jardin, 43 ! Princes Inland : higher part of 

 Pico de Papagaio, Welwitsch, 7032 ! Lower Congo, Smith, 14 ! 25 ! Angohi : Ainbriz, 

 iu marshy places, Monteiro ! Welwitsch, 7041 ! Loanda ; by ponds on the Island of 

 Cazanga, Welwitsch, 7081 ! Golungo Alto ; banks of the River Quiapose, near 

 Sange, Welwitsch, 7100 ! Pungo Andongo ; in marshy, meadows, Welwitsch, 6927 ! 

 Mo'samedes ; marshes near Aguadas, Welwitsch, 6890 ! on the banks of the River 

 Caroca, TFeZwtY^c^, 6891 ! Huilla, iV^eto^ow, 15 ! German South-west Africa : Herero- 

 land. Dinter, 399 ! 



Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Hildehrandt, 1069 ! Stuhlmann, 85 ! German 

 East Africa : Usiimbara ; Tanga, Hoist, 2029 ! Portuguese Ea«t Africa : Cabaceira 

 PeninsuUi, Peters, 21 ! British Central Africa : Zambesi Valley ; Boruma, Meny- 

 harth, 1061 ! North Nyasaland, Whyte ! 



In tropical and warm temperate countries throughout the world, especially near 

 the sea. 



Var. laxijlora, Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 261. Spikes open, subcorymbose or 

 umbellate. Spikelets subsolitary, spreading horizontally, often yellow or somewhat 

 brown-red. — C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 592, in Uurand & Schiiiz, 

 Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 541, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 158. Cyperus globosus, Boeck. 

 in Flora, 1879, 546, not of AUioni. 



TTpper Guinea. Senegal, i?o^er, 39 ! Adanson, 172! Senegambia; near t he- 

 River Jonware, Brunner, 165 ! and without precise locality, Heudelot, 498 ! Ciipe 

 Verd Islands : St. Antao, Chray ! 



Wile Iiand. British East Africa : Jur ; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 1462! 

 Rabai Hills, near Mombasa, Taylor! Nyika country, near Mombasa, Taylor .' 



lao-wer Guinea. Angola: Huilla ; Humpata, Johnston! 



Mozamb. Dlst. Zanzibar, Kirk! Hildebratult, 1067! Kuntze, 210! 211 ! 



In tropical and warm temperate countries throughout the world. 



There occurs every gradation from the dense tassel-spikes of F. polystachyos 

 type to the extreme form of the var. laxijlora. The fuvourite name for this 

 abundant species with authors appears to be Cyperus polystachyos, Rottb., which I 

 have doubtfully referred (in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi.616) to Cyperus subcapitals, 

 C. B. Clarke. Whatever C. polystachyos, Rottb. may have been, as it had a tritid 

 style, it was not our present species nor any Fycreus. 



15. P. JEthiops, C. B. Clarke in Duravd d- i^chinz, Coiut]>€ct. Fl. 

 Afr. V. 534. Stems tufted, 8-16 in. long. Leaves h as long as stem. 

 Umbel simple; rays 0-f in. long; bracts spreading horizontally. 



