'.>24 CLVI. CYPERACE.E (cLARKE). [( .'i/jx/'fts. 



flowered. Glumes closely imbricated, oblong, obtuse, many-nerved. 

 Stamens 3. Style as long as the nut ; branches >>, linear, much exserted. 

 Nut V the length of the glume, oblong, brown. — C. scfAisibarensis:, 

 K. Schurn. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 121. 



STile Ziand. British East Africa : Mombasa, Taylor! 



Dr. K. Schumann may he correct, from iiis great linguistic ki)<)wleclgp, in 

 altering the spelling to Sansibar. 1 would gladly accept the correction if it would 

 obviate our Indices being afflicced for all time with two words (instead of one), but 

 I>r. Schumann's alteritioii of a first letter has ni:ide me helpless. 



18. C. somaiiensiSy C. B. Clarke in Kew Bulletin, l^Ua, '12\). 

 Stems -i-d in. long, slender, at the base cyiindric-thickened by leaf- 

 sheaths, tufted, hard, with wiry roots. Leaves |-| the length of the 

 stems, setaceous, glabrous or pubescent ; sheaths always pubescent. 

 Head 1, \-^ in. in diam., of 0-24 spikelets, straw- or cinnamon- 

 coloured ; bracts 2, lowest up to 2 in. long, setaceous. Spikelets up to 

 1 by \ in. (mostly smaller), ovoid, flattened, 4-8-flowered. Glumes 

 boat-shaped, obtuse, many-striate. Style as long as the nut; branches 

 :>, linear, exserted. Nut 'i the length of the glume, triquetrous, 

 obovoid, brown, curved, asymmetric. 



xrile Xiand. Somaliland, Mrs. Lort- Phillips ! Miss Sdith Cole ! 



This plant appears most like C. niveus, Retz., but is on a very much smaller 

 stale. The heads, though dense, are evidently compound, which approximates it to 

 the succeeding siction. 



19. C. conglomeratus, jRottb. Descr. et Ic. 21, t. M), Jiy. 7. 

 Glabrous. Rhizome usually hardly any, sometimes elongate; roots 

 woolly. Stems 4-24 in. long, round-trigonous towards the top. Leaves 

 sometimes twice as long as the stem, sometimes only half as long, ^V~'t 

 in. broad, very stout and tough, midrib very obscure, margins much 

 inrolled when dry. Spikes few in a simple umbel, or very often con- 

 densed into 1 head ; bracts i)-'), lowest suberect, dilated at the base, 

 often ;-}-6 in. long, similar to the leaves. Spikelets 8-2.') to a head, 

 i~"3 by \-\ in., 8-lG-flovvered, moderately compressed, straw-coloured 

 or pale brown. Glumes tightly imbricated but not placed very close 

 together on the rhachiila, ovate with a minute mucro, rounded on the 

 back, many-ribbed, somewhat shining, especially on the maigins. Style 

 short ; branches 8, linear, rather long. Nut as long as ^- the glume, 

 obovoid, unequally trigonous. — Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 8(1'.), var. and 

 mainly ; Aschers. tk Schweinf. 111. Fl. Egypte, 156 ; 0. B. Clarke in 

 Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 602, and in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 

 Afr. V. 554. C. jeTuinicus, Rottb. Des^cr. et Ic. 25, t. 8, fig. 1 ; Kunth, 

 Enum. ii. 24, not of Retz. C. pungens, Boeck. in Linntea, xxxv. 5;')7 

 (excl. var. elatus) \ C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. MH. 

 C. arcimtiis, Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxv. 542. C. j^roteinolepis, Boeck. in 

 Linn^ea, xxxv. 542. • 



Vpper Guinea. Senegal, Roger, 69 ! 



Nile Xiand. Nubian Desert : Wady el Derood, Fetherick ! Galabat : ^Matamn-a, 

 Oudney, 4 ! 5 ! Dai fur, Pnrdy, 42 ! 



