Si\'J CLVi. CYPERACE^ (clarke). [Cyperus. 



Scliinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 565, name only; K. »Schuin. in Engl. Pfl. 

 Oht-Afr. C. 119. 



XVKozamb. Slist. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro, 5000-6500 ft., Taylor ! 

 Volkens, 2275 ! 



This differs little from some large examples of C. Haspan, but by the dark 

 chestnut-colour and rather larger glumes. 



?>'2. C. Haspan, Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2, 66 partly, not of Linn. Herb. 

 Glabrous. Rhizome long-creeping, \ in. thick, sometimes slender; 

 plants frequently flower the first year. Stems distant on long-creeping 

 rhizomes, more often close together, varying from 4 to 2^ in. long, jit 

 the apex from ~ in. diam.and trigonous to ^ in. diam. and triquetrous 

 or :>-winged. Leaves often short, or hardly any, sometimes long or 

 overtopping the stem ^-J in. broad. Umbel usually compound or 

 decompound, rarely simple, small or large ; bracts usually 2-3, lower 

 suberect shorter' than the umbel, but sometimes far overtopping the 

 umbel. Spikelets 2-6 together, digitate, -J— J by ^75-^2 ^^1 ^luch 

 compressed, 10-40-flowered. Glumes ovate, obtuse, obscurel}' or not 

 mucronate, 1-3-nerved on the keel, dusky green or purple-reddish. 

 Stamens o-2 ; anthers linear-oblong. Style short ; branches 3, scarcely 

 exserted. Nut J-J the length of the glume, ovoid or obovoid, scabrid 

 or nearly smooth, pallid or brown. — Kunth, Enum. ii. 34 ; Benth. in 

 Hook. Niger Fl. 550 partly ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxv. 574, var. a, and 

 in Flora, IHT'J, 550 partly; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 

 6(H), and in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 564; Ridley in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 136 ; Boeck. in Engl. Gazelle Reise, 

 Bot. 15; K. Sebum, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 119; Durand & Schinz, 

 Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 280 ; De Wild, k Durand in Comptes-rendus Soc. 

 bot. Belg. xxxvi. 89 ; Urban, Symb. Antill. ii. '2') ; Rendle in Cat. 

 Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 114. 



Vpper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 833 ! Sierra Leone : Kundita, in the 

 viiliey of the River Scarcies, Scott-Elliof, 5039 ! and without precise locality, Don ! 

 Liberia; Monrovia, Naumann (ex Boeckeler). Lagos: Abeokut-s Irving! Niger 

 Territory : Nupe, Barter, 1572 ! on the sandy banks of the River Nun, Vogel, 13 ! 



ITile Ziaud. British East Africa: Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2054! 

 near Mombasa, Hildebrandt, 2045 ! 



JaO'WBT Guinea. Gaboon River, Jardin ! Lower Congo : Lutete, 1000-1750 

 ft., Hens, 78! 158! 248! Kisantu, Gillet, 6! 139! 988! Leopoldville, iw/«, 38 ! 

 62! and without precise locality. Smith, 19! 47! Angola: Ainbaca, Welwitsch, 

 7097 ! Pungo Andongo, 3500 ft., Welwitsch, 6908 ! 6932 ! Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 

 7086 ! Ambriz, Welwitsch, 7035 ! 7035b ! 



Mozamb. Slst. German East Africa : Lake Yijjc, near Kilimanjaro, 2000 ft., 

 Volkens^ 2388 ! Usambara ; banks of a stream near Tauga, Hoist, 2045 ! Unyamwezi ; 

 Tabora, Stuhlmann, 579 ! Nguru ? Wadiboma, Fischer, 629 ! Karagwe ; Bukoba, 

 Sin hlma in, 9961 1610! Portuguese East Africa : in rice-fields, Qui limane, -Sco/^ .' 

 British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Zomba Rock, Whyte ! by the Karonga River, 

 Scott ! Ngamiland; Lake River, Lugard, 10! 



A rice-field weed in all hot countries. 



