y>'2S CLVi. CYPERACE^ (clarke). [Cypevus. 



obfcoletely excurreiit ; sides golden, not striated ; keel of 3-5 green 

 nerves. Style nearly as long as the nut ; branches o, linear, hardly 

 exserted. Nut i the length of the glume, obovoid, smooth, brown. — 

 Schumach. Beskr. Guin. PL 85; Kunth, Enum. ii. 108; Ridley in 

 Tr.ins. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 1 30 ; C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. XX. 283, xxi. 85, in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 598, in Durand k 

 Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 547, and in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append, 

 iii. 29 ; Durand <fc Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 283 ; Urban, Symb. 

 Antill. ii. 24 ; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 109. C. micro- 

 stachyos, Vahl, Enum. ii. 318 ; Schumach. Beskr. Guin. PI. 3G ; Kunth, 

 Enum. ii. 108. C. aureus, H. B. & K. Nov. Gen et Sp. i. 205 ; Kunth, 

 Enum. ii. 21 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxv. 494, in Peters, Reise Mossamb. 

 Bot. 535, and in Flora, 1879, 548 ; Ficalho & Hiern in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 2'6. C. aurantiacus, H. B. &: K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. i. 

 2U5 ; Kunth, Enum. ii. 20; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 549. C.lepidus, 

 Hochst. ex Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. ii. 14. C. triqueter, Boeck. in Flora, 

 1879, 548, in Engl. Jahrb. v. 90, and in Engl. Gazelle Reise, Bot. 14. 



Wpper Guinea. Gambia, Mtingo Park ! Niger Territory : Lower Niger j 

 Piitteh Mountain, Vogel, 193 ! Nupe, Baikie ! 



KTile Ziand. Kordofan : Araslikol Mo'iutain, Kotschy, 139 ! British East 

 Afri a : Ador village, in Kitch district, Petherick ! Bongo ; near Addai, Schweinfurth^ 

 2J83 ! Jur; .Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2256! t-er. iii. 193! near Mombasa, 

 Taylor I by the River Sabuki, Gregory, 116 ! 



Iiower Guinea. Lower Congo : Stanley Pool, Hens^ B, Q\ I Angola : Barra 

 do Hengo, near (^uifandongo, Wehoitsch, 7084. ! Loando, 1000 It., Wehcitsch, 7024 [ 

 7083 ! Bengnellrt ; in sandy woods, Welirifsch. 6892 ! Pungo Andongo ; in sandy 

 woods near the River Cuanza, 3500 ft., Welvntsch, 6912 ! Huilla ; between Lopollo 

 and Monino, 5000 ft., Wehoitsch, 6893 ! 



Soutli Central. Lunda; River Lulua, Pogge, 465! Bangala, Mens, 135 ! 

 llXozamb. XHst. Zanzibar, Taylor! Schmidt, 62! Decken, 115 ! German 

 Ea?t Africa: Usambara; Amboni, Hoist, 2598 ! Rovuma River, Kirk ! Mwanza, on 

 Lake Victoria, Sttihlmann, 4531 ! Portuguese East Africa : Mozambique, Ktintze, 

 205 ! Peters ! Inhambane, Scott ! Britisli Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Mount 

 Zomba, 5000-6000 ft., Whyte I Zomba Rock, Whyte ! Sbiro Highlands, 5<<cAa«aw, 

 18 ! and without i>rec'.se locality, Buchanan, 624B ! Lilionia Island in Lake Nyasa, 

 Johnson, 47 ! Boruma, on the Zambesi, MenyhartJc, 555 partly ! U))per Zambesi, 

 Pinto, 69 (ex Hiern). 



Also in Soutli Africa, Madagascar, India and Trop. America. 



Var. ? macra, C. B. Clarke. Mucb larger in all parts. Stems up to 18 in. long, 

 stout. Umbel simple; rays sliort, erect; bracts several, long, dilated at the base, 

 Spikelets (young) ^-^ in. long, erect in close clusters. — C. amahilis, var. macer, 

 Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 547, by tyi)ogr. error. 

 IiOwer Guinea. Congo, Smith, 26 ! 



2G. C. uncinatus. Pair, in Lam. Enci/cl. vii. 247. Glabrous, annual. 

 Stems 2-10 in. long, tufted, slender. Leave.s usually as long as the 

 stem, setaceous. Umbel simple (rarely compound or reduced to a head) ; 

 bracts ^-6, much overtopping the umbel, setaceous. Spikelets digitate, 

 often 3-10 together, J by \-\ in., compressed, 8-28-flo\\ ered, from pale 

 ferruginous to brown. Glumes ovate, strongly 8-nerved, the green 



