Jiincelliis.'] CLvi. cyperace^ (clarke). ;Jij7 



1. J. alopecaroides, C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Ft. Jlrlt. Ind. 

 vi. 595. Large; flowering the first season. Stem solitary, \\-\\ ft. Ion*', 

 at the top trigonous and smooth. Leaves as long as the stem, \-\ ii). 

 broad. Umbel 6-24 in. in diam., compound ; rays 4-10; bracts 8-H, 

 lowest 6-15 by \-\ in. Spikes ?>-5 together, sessile, 1-1.^ by \-\ in., 

 dense, cylindric. Spikelets \-\ by jV-^- in., compressed, 8-:>0-flowertHl, 

 straw-coloured. Glumes very closely imbricated, ovate, concave, thin ; 

 rhachilla stout, subquadrangular, not winged. Nut \ the length of 

 the glume, obovoid, with the anterior angle flattened. — C. B. Clarke in 

 Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 543, and in Bull. Herb. Boi.^s. 

 iv. Append, iii. 28 ; Urban, Symb. Antill. ii. 20. Cyperus alopecu- 

 roides, Rottb. Descr. et Ic. 38, t. 8, fig. 2 ; C. B. Clarke in Journ. Lini). 

 Soc. XX. 283, and xxi. 30, 74, t. 2, fig. 12; Aschers. ct Schweinf. 111. Fl. 

 Egypte, 15G ; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. Append, ii. 40, 103. 

 C. semidives, Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. ii. 36. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia : Cape Venl, Brunner, 46! 6il Cape Vcrtl 

 Islands : St. Jago, Hooker, 100 ! Bornu, Vogel ! 



Wile Iiand, Kordofan, Kotschy ! Abyssinia; ^loddit^ Schimper, 110! 11^781 

 and without precise locality, Hildehrandt, 361 ! 



liower Guinea. Angola: Benguela, 3f(?»^^ar^/i, 203 ! Moss;imcdes, 7/^o<>;;/«e;-, 1 1 



Mozamb. Sist, Britisli Central Africa; Xyas;iland, Buchanan, 417 ! 



Also in North Africa, the Mascarene Islands, India, Malaya, Queer.slund and 

 Guadeloupe. 



Boeckeler hns included this species under Cyperus {Eucyperus) exalt aius, 

 Retz. It is therefore not possible to dissect the synonymy and geojrraphy satisfuc- 

 torily in many ciises. Schweinfurth's Cyperus alopecuroides is founded on his three 

 numbers 920, 1487, 1716; of these 920, which I have seen, is Cyperus exaltalus, 

 Retz; but it is very likely that the other two (or one of them) was Fycrens 

 alopecuroides. 



2. J. pustulatus, C. B. Clarke in Durand ct- Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 

 Afr. V. 546. Annual. Stems tufted, 4-16 in. long, rather slender. 

 Leaves few, J-| the length of the stem, yV-J in. broad, weak. Umbel 

 simple (sometimes 1 spike only present) ; rays 2-5, 0-2^ in. long ; 

 bracts 3, lowest 3-7 in. long, similar to the leaves. Spikes of 2-5 

 nearly sessile spikelets, ebracteolate. Spikelets up to \ by nearly | in., 

 turgid, moderately compressed, linear-oblong with parallel sides, 8-1 H- 

 flowered, glistening-white purple-marked ; rhachilla pei-sb;tent, not 

 winged. Glumes ovate, obtuse, 7-nerved, closely imbricated, roundeil 

 or scarcely keeled on the back, caducous regularly beginning with the 

 lowest nut-bearing one. Style 2-fid or more rarely 3-fid. Nut ": the 

 length of the glume, obovoid, flattened on the anterior angle, usually 

 so much flattened that the nut is biconvex and the anterior style- 

 branch gone, sometimes unequal trigonous with ;> style- branches. — 

 Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 100. Ciipervs pustidatus, V'ahl. 

 Enum. ii. 341 ; Schumach. Beskr. Guin. PI. 37 ; Kunth, Enum. ii. ('•:! ; 

 Boeck. in Linn^a, xxxv. 491, and in Flora, 1870, 548 ; Ridley in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 128 partly. C. Barter i, -Boeck. in Linnn'ii. 

 xxxv. 460; C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 76. 



