6'//;>^r2«.S.] CLVI. CYPERACE.E (cLARKE). •',29 



keel excurrent in a recurved prominent bristle. Nut as lon>.^ as i the 

 glume (exclusive of the mucro), oblong-obovoid. — Kunth, Enum. ii". 21 ; 

 Boeck. in Linnaja, xxxv. 502; C. B. Clarke in .lourn. Linn. Soc. xx. 

 284, xxi. 90, and in JDurand &l Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. oSO ; 

 l)ur. et De Wild, in Comptes-rendus Soc. bot. Belg. xxxvi. 89 ; K. Scliiun. 

 in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 118 ; Durand k Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 

 294 ; Urban, Symb. Antill. ii. 24 ; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pi. Welw. 

 ii. 110. C. capitatus, Betz. Obs. iv. 9 (?); Kunth, Enum. ii. !I7, not of 

 Vandelli. C. cuspidatas, H. B. & K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. i. 204 ; Kunth, 

 Enum. ii. 22 ; Boeck. in Linna3a, xxxv. 496 ; Oliver in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xxix. 164; C B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 2^<4, xxi. 88, 

 and in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 598 ; Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 ser. 2, Bot. ii. 130. C. squarrosus, T. Thoms. in Speke, Nile, Append. 

 653, not of Linn. Dichostylis cuspidata, Palla in Engl. Jahrb. x. 296. 



Upper Guinea. Sieri*a Leone, Smeathman ! Niger Territory : Xupf, Barter, 

 1569! 



Urile ILand. British East Africa: Jur, Schweinfurth, 1984 partly! Mndi; 

 on I'ocky heig-hts, Speke Sf Grant ! Soudan, Lecard, 140 ! 



"HLo-wer Guinea. Gaboon: Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyaux, .342 1 Lower 

 Congo; Msuata, Bnettner, 12! Kinchassa, on Stanley Pool, Duchesne, 170! 

 Stanley Pool, He^is, B, 68 ! Kisantu, aUlet, 502 ! Lutete, Mens, A, 23 ! Luf u, 

 200-500 ft.. Hens, A, 207! Angola: Pungo Andongo, 3500 ft., Wehcitsc/i, 0910! 

 7155! 7157! 7168! Golungo Alto; near Cambondo, Welioitsch, 7099! Hiiilla;in 

 damp places in Sorghum fields, 5000 ft., Welwitsch, 6879! Huinpa'a, Neivfon, 241 



IkZozaxnb. Hist. British Central Africa : Nyasaland; Namasi, Camero», 13! 



Common in all tropical and warm temperate lands. 



C. aristatus, Rottb., having similar recurved points to the glumes, has been 

 much confused with the present species, but differs inter alia by having the spikeleta 

 spicatc, not digitate. 



27. C. reduncus, Boeck. in Linncea, xxxv. 580. Glabrou.s, 

 annual, or (in Reudelot, 172) furnished with a rhizome 1 by ,V in. 

 Stems 2-10 in. long, tufted. Leaves as long as the stem, J in. broad. 

 Umbel usually compound, 3-4 in. in diam., sometimes reduced ; bracts 

 overtopping the umbel, similar to the leaves. Spikes digitate, of :\-'2^^- 

 spikelets, straw-coloured or brownish. Spikelets ^-5 by J-1 in., much 

 flattened, 30-flowered. Glumes boat-shaped, obscurely 3-nerved : keel 

 green, excurrent into a short recurved mucro. Style short ; brunches 

 3, linear, short. Nut f-f the length of the glume, narrow-oblong, 

 brown.— Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 105; Hochst ex Boeck. in 

 Flora, 1S79, 550; C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. 

 V. 573; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 119. C. aristattu^, 

 T. Thoms. in Speke, Nile, Append. 653 partly, not of Rottb. 



Upper Guinea. iSewg-Arnhm, Hetidelot, 172! 286! Niger Territory: Nui^', 

 Barter, 903 ! Ogurude, on the Cross River, Holland, 257 ! 



Wile Ziand. Upper Sennar: Fazokl, Figari! British Kast Afrira : Jur; 

 .lur (xhttas, Schweinfurth, 2433 ! Unyoro, in uiarshes, Speke 4' Grant ! 



South Central. Lunda : by the River Lulua, Pogge^ 4(34 ! 



