344 CLvi. CYPERACE^ (clarke) [Cypeviis. 



not of Linn. C sylvestris, Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 134 ; 

 E-endle in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. ii. 1 ] 2. C. Buchholzii, Boeck. Cyp. 

 NovfB, i. 8. C. BuettneH, Boeck. Cyp. Novae, i. 3, and in Yerhandl. 

 Bot, Ver. Brandenb. xxxi. 71. 



Upper Crulnea. Gold Coast : Aburi, Johnson ! Lagos : near Addo, Millcn, 

 182! 0\AOA\i\h-AV, Sulland,\Ol\ Cameroons : Efulen, ^a^e*, 283 ! Ebea (Edea ?) 

 Falls, DinJclage, 640 ! Yaunde, Zenker ^ Stauclt, 798 ! and without precise 

 locality, Freuss, 92 I 348 ! Miss Kinr/sley! Buchholz ! Braun, 26 ! Fernando Po, 

 T'o(/el ! 



XiOwer Guineac Princes Island, Mann ! Newton ! Spanish Gaboon : Mount 

 Jobn, Kongui Kiver, Mann, 1895 ! Gaboon : Sibange, Buetiner, 9 ! Lower Congo, 

 Hens, 356 ! Angola : Pungo Andongo ; in marshy places, Welwitsch, 6942 ! 6943 ! 

 6944! 6898! Golungo Alto; banks of streams on the mountains of Alto Queta, 

 WelwitscJi, 7071 ! 



Common throughout the tropics, including Madagascar, but no specimen from 

 East Africa. 



X.li. No part of C. elegans, Linn., neither description nor herbarium examples, 

 refers to this species. 



58. G. glaucophyllus, Boeck. Cyp. Novce, i. 4. Glabrous. 

 Rhizome oblique. Stem nearly 3 ft. long, at the top trigonous. 

 Leaves J the length of the stem, ^ in. broad. Umbel 10 in. in diam., 

 compound, with slender flexuose rays ; bracts overtopping the umbel, 

 similar to the leaves. Spikelets 6-1 together, .|-J by yV^xV ^^-5 brown, 

 compressed, 12-iC -flowered. Glumes striate, minutely mucronate. 

 Style nearly as long as the nut ; branches 3, linear. Nut J as long as 

 the glume, oblong-obovoid, black. — C. B. Clarke in Durand k Schinz, 

 Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 564 ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 120. 



Z^ozamb. Bist. British Central Africa : Xyasaland ; Shire Highlands, 



Buchanayi, 24 ! 



The spikelets are said by Boeckeler to be solitary ; so some of them are, as is 

 very commonly the case in the group of C. diffusus ; hwt the ultimate inflorescence 

 is not spicate (as in the subgenus Chorisfaehyce) ; the final umbeilule has some of its 

 r^ylets with one spikelet only. 



50. C. Baroni, C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 289. Stem 

 up to 3 ft. high, at the top trigonous. Leaves f the length of the 

 stem, up to h ^^' broad, somewhat o-nerved. Umbel decompound, 

 8-14 in. in diam., with innumerable spikes; bracts overtopping the 

 umbel, similar to the leaves. Spikelets 3-5 together, 4-1 by -L in., 

 compressed, brown, 6-12-flovverecl. Glume ovate, green, 5-nerved on 

 the back, usually very minutely pubescent near the excurrent mucro. 

 Nut ^-'i the length of the glume, small, ellipsoid. Style short; 

 branches 3, longish. — C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 

 Afr. V. 550. C. Mannii, K. Schum. in Hoist, Exsicc. 3385. 



Mozamb. Bist, German East Africa : U.>ambara ; Lutindi, Hoist, 3385 

 British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Kondowe to Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte ! 

 and without precise locality, Buchanan, 647 ! 



Common in Madagascar. 



