JlOlCellaS.] CLVI. CYPERACEiE (cLARKE). 31 )9 



the anterior angle rounded off, smooth, brown. — C B. Clarke in Durand 

 tt Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. r)44, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append, iii. 

 28, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 101 ; Durand <fe De Wild, in Comptes- 

 rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvi. 88; Urban, Symb. Antill. ii. 'J\ ; 

 Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 109. ('i/perus lovu/atus, Linn. 

 Mant. 179, and in herb, propr. ; Rottb. Descr. et Ic. 19, t. U), fig. I ; 

 Boeck. in Linna?a, xxxv. 486, and in Flora, 1871), r)48 ; Oliver in Tran.s. 

 Linn. Soc. xxix. 164 ; Coss. k Durieu, Expl. Scient. Alger, (ilum. 2.'»() ; 

 C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 282, and xxi. 77, t. :>, tigs. 20-21, 

 t. 4, fig. 33 ; Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 128 ; Aschers. 

 cV: Schweinf. 111. Fl. Egypte, 156; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. 

 Append, ii. 46 ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 118. C. mucro- 

 Qiatus, Rottb. Descr. et Ic. 19, t. 8, fig. 4; Kuntli, Enura. ii. 17; 

 Barker Webb in Hook. Niger Fl. 182. C. teretif alius, A. Rich. Tent. 

 Fl. Abyss, ii. 477. C. suhaphyllus, Boeck. in Verbandl. Bot. Ver. 

 Brandenb. xxjl. 139. C. suhmonostachyus, Steud. et Jardin in Bull. Soc. 

 Linn. Normand. ser. 2, ix. (1875) 272, 280. Pycreus Imvujatus, Nees in 

 Linniea, x. 130. P. miicronatus, Nees in Linnfea, ix. 283. 



Upper Cruinea. Senegambia : banks of the Kiver Senegal on tlie Island 

 of St. 'Lorns, Brnnner.lSl Cape Verd Islands: St. A'ineeut, 7>/^/. i)5! 99 I 114! 

 Milne! MacGillivray, 133! 1000 ft.. Welwitsch, 7075! St. Antonio, I'ogel, <Jt! 

 Aiisell ! St. Nicholao, Bolle ! 



Wile Xiand. Nubia: Coast region. Bent ! near Singot, Schweinfvrth, iii. l:<91 

 Eritrea: Keren, 3800 ft., Schtoeinfurth, 777; Ailet. 1000 ft., ^>/^w«w/'^r<//, 474 ! 

 Abyssinia: Gursorfa, in marshy places, Schimper, 2160! and witliout precise 

 locality, Schimper, 21 I 1236! Ehrenherg ! Somaliland : near Mnid, Hihlehmndi, 

 J 474! British East Africa: Usongora, on the shove of the s^lt lake. Scott-ElUoty 

 7957 ! by the Kariandusi River, Gregory, 44 ! 



I>ower Guinea. Angola : Mossaraedes ; banks of the River Caraco, at Cnbo 

 Negro, Welwitsch, 6855 I by the River Bero, near Cavalheiros, Webritsrh, 6H56 ! 

 near Os Cazados, Welwitsch, G857 ! marshy ground near Aguadas, Weln-itsch, 6858 ! 

 German South-west Africa : Hereroland, Fleck, 161 partly ! 



IMEozamb. Bist. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro, T^r^yor .' Khntu : at the 

 margin of a hot spring near Zungoraero, *S>e^e Sf Grant I liritish Central Africa : 

 Nyasaland; Manganja Hills, Meller ! 



Found in all warm and tem))erate regions. 



The vAxxeXy junciformis (C. juuciformis, Desfont. Fl. Atlant. i. 42, t. 7, Hi;. 1) 

 with few, hard, black chestnut spikes, is spread over the warmer parts nt the world, 

 and common in North Africa, but no examples have been yet seen fron) Tropical 

 Africa. 



:>. J. minutus, C. B. Clarke in Jom-ii. Bot. 1896, 224. A very 

 «mall annual. Stem 1-2 in. long. Leaves few, shorter than the 

 stem, J- in. broad, wea,k. Head 1, of 8 spikelets; bracts 2, lower 1 in. 

 long, similar to the leaves. Spikelets J by -J- in., compre.s.sed, .stmw- 

 colonred red-tinged, (;-8-flowered. Glumes closely packed, Ixwt-slviped, 

 the green keel subexcurrent into a raucro. Stamens 2-1 ; anthens 

 short-oblong, very small. Style long, slender, brandies 2 much shorter 

 than the style, or the style sometimes only minutely notched. Kiit 

 minute, pyriform, plano-convex, black, minutely punctate. 



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