Cf/perits.] CLvi. cyperace^ (clarke). 347 



often with a purple spot on each side ; rhachilla with oblong wings. 

 Style shorter than the nut; branches 3, linear, hardly exserted. Nut 

 ^- the length of the glume, ellipsoid or obovoid, trigonous, ashy-black. — 

 Schumach. Beskr. Guin. PI. 87 ; Kunth, Enum. ii. 63 ; Benth. in Hook. 

 Niger Fl. 550; Boeck. in Linngea, xxxvi. 202; Ridley in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 139 partly; C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. x\i. 

 183, and in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 577 ; Henricjues 

 in Bolet. Soc. Brot. v. 208 ; De Wild. & Durand in Comptes-rendus 

 Soc. bot. Belg. xxxyi. 89; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 120; 

 Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 293; Urban, Symb. Antill. ii. 

 30; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 117. C. jmstulatus, Ridley 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 128 partly. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Don! Vogel, 33 ! Welwitsch, 7056. Liberia: 

 Grand Bassa, Ansell! Gold Coast : Cape Coast Castle, Don ! Dahomey, Newton, 27 I 

 River Nio^er ; at Attab, Vogel ! Lokaja district, Richardson, 1 ! and without precise 

 locality, BaiJcie ! Old Calabar, Rohh ! Fernando Po, Barter ! Vogel, 13 ! 



Iiower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, up to 2800 ft., Moller in Flor. Afr. 

 I^xsicc. Conimhric, 120! Annobon Island, Burton I Gaboon: Munda; Siban^e 

 Farm, Soyaux^ 325A ! Lower Congo : Lutete and Stanley Pool, 1000 ft., Rens, B, 

 22! 41! 99! 267! Leopoldville, Luja, 12! Angola: Loanda, Welwitsch, 7102 

 partly! Golungo Alto; at the foot of Mount Cungulungulo, Welwitsch, 7070! near 

 Rodrigo's house, rare, Welwitsch, 7090 ! 



Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi ; Tete, Kirk ! 

 Var. tenuior, C. B. Clarke in Durand & Scbinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 577. 

 Spikelets 1-4, subdigitate on the rays of a simple umbel, about 10-flowered. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 485 ! 



This much resembles the slender African form of C. Zollingeri ; but it appears 

 annual, and the bracts are larger and more flaccid than those of C. Zollingeri. 



65. C. compressus, Linn. Sp. Fl 46. Annual, glabrous, green. 

 Stems 4-16 in. long, tufted. Leaves often § the length of the stem, 

 I (rarely |) in. broad. Umbel simple (or appearing nearly so), strag- 

 gling ; lowest bract usually longer than the umbel, similar to tlie 

 leaves. Spikelets 3-10 together, shortly spicate, or almost clustere<K 

 l_l by l-l in., very much compressed, green or when ripe yellowish, 

 4-40-flLOwered. Glumes ovate, conspicuously many-striate, closely 

 packed, keel very sharp and shortly excurrent into a mucro. Nut ^ 

 the length of the glume, broadly obovoid, very acutely triquetrous 

 (s6 that the faces are concave), black. Style shorter than the nut ; 

 branches 3, hardly exserted.— Kunth, Enum. ii. 23 ; Boeck. in Linna'a, 



XXXV. 517; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 605, and in 



Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 553; Ridley in Trans Lmn. 



Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 132; K. Schum. in Engl. Pd. Ost-Afr. C. ll^; 



Urban, Symb. Antill. ii. 31 ; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. n. 111. 

 upper Guinea. Senegal, Leprienr,4,\ Sierra Leone: at the foot of Sugar 



Loaf Mountain, Welwitsch, 7057 ! Old Calabar, Robb ! 



Wile Xiand. British East Africa : Mombasa; Taylor! 



