Cyperus.'] clvi. cyperace.e (clarke). 337 



times terete with very fine numerous stria?, sometimes fluted with 

 fewer deep striae, sometimes nearly triangular or G -angular. Leiives 

 0, except on the first sterile shoots. Umbel \~\'2, in. in diam., usually 

 compound ; primary rays numerous (often G-IO), subequal in length, 

 not very slender; bracts 8-12, subequal, overtopping the umbel, often 

 at the base ^-\ in. apart (i.e. umbel subcorymbose), up to 14 by \ -5 in., 

 with lanceolate (not caudate) tips. Spikes of 2-15 digitate spikelets, 

 whitish-yellow, cinnamon-coloured or rust-coloured, sometimes chestnut- 

 spotted. Spikelebs J- J by yV in., much compressed, 10-2()-flowered. 

 Glumes close-packed, very acutely keeled, hard, shining, not distinctly 

 ribbed, tip trigonous, pointed. Stamens 3. Style short ; branches 3, 

 long. Nut J the length of the glume, triquetrous, obovoid, slightly 

 apiculate, becoming brown. — Kunth, Enum. ii. 32 ; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. 

 Abyss, ii. 479 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxv. 5G6 (excl. the Costa Rica, 

 plant) ; Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 135 ; C. B. Clarke in 

 Durand &l Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 562 ; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. 

 Boiss. ii. Append, ii. 48, 102 ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 110 ; 

 Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 287 ; Da Wild, k Durand in 

 Comptes-rendus Soc. bot. Belg. xxxvi. 88 ; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. 

 Welw. ii. 114. C. p'oximus, Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. ii. 19. C.fayellatuSy 

 Hochst. in Flora, 1841. i. Intell. 21; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 

 140. C. petersianus, Boeck. in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 537, and in 

 Linnsea, xxxv. 567. C. Ginge, Welw. Apont. 586. C. aexanyularisy 

 Fenzl ex Steud. I.e. 



Iffile Xiand. Upper Sennar: Fazokl, Kotschy, 565! Eritrea: Arrot Valley, 

 4300 ft., Schiveinfurth Sf Riva, 684 ! below Geleb, 5500 ft., Schtceinfurth ^ Riva, 

 1382 ! Abyssinia: near Adowa, Schimper, 55 ! and without precise locality, Sc/iimper, 

 131 ! 1590! 1941 I Quartin-Dillon Sf Petit! Sonialiland : GoHs Range, Mrs. Lort- 

 FMllips! Britisl) East Africa : Kiboko, >S'c'0^^-E^^io^, 6679 ! Taita ; Ndi Mountain, 

 mUebrandt, 2593 ! Ribe, Wakefield ! 



Xaower Guinea. Lower Congo : Kisantu, Oillet, 464 ! Congo, Burton ! 

 Smith ! Angola : Malange, Buchner ! Goluugo Alto and Golungo Baixo ; plentiful 

 everywhere in marshy places, TFelwitsch, 7103 ! Mossaraedes ; by lakes at tlieinoutU 

 of the River Giraul, Wehoitsch, 6882 ! 



»£ozamb. »ist. Zanzibar, Taylor ! Peters, 15 ! German East Africa : 

 Kilimanjaro : Chagga distr., New ! Volkens, 1682 ! Usaml ara ; Lutindi, ffoUt, 

 3231 ! Portuguese East Africa : banks of ponds at Shupanga, Scott ! Expedition 

 Island, in the Zambesi, KirJc ! British Central Africa: Boruma, on the Znnbesi, 

 Menyharth, 1054 ! Nyasaland ; Songue and Karonga, Whyte ! 72 ! between Mpata 

 and the commencement of the Tanganyika Plateau, 2000-3000 ft., Whyte ! Monkey. 

 Bar, Whyte ! Manganja Hills, Meller 1 Shire Valley, Scott ! and without precise 

 locality, Buchanan, 493 ! 



Also in South Africa, the Mascarene Islands and Arabia. 



42. C. alternifolius, Linn. ManL 28, and Linn. Herh. Primary 

 and secondary rays of the umbel very slender. Nut lanceolate or 

 oblong, finally black ; otherwise as C.flahellifoo'mis, Rottb.— Jacq. Ic. PI. 

 ii. 8, t. 298 ; Kunth, Enum. ii. 33 ; Boeck. in Linnaea, xxxv. 568 ; 

 C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 289, xxi. 130, and in Durand <k 



