Cypei^bs.'] cLvi. CYPERACE^ (clarke). 



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Upper Guinea. Senegal : in damp places in the Wallo district, Rjqer 68 ' 

 and without precise locality, Leprieur, 3! Senegamhia : (Juiam, Ileude io(, ' 12S' 

 aid without precise locality, Heudelot, 328! Gambia, Munyo Park ! Gold Coabt • 

 Accra, Vogel, 13 ! Niger Territory : Nupe, Barter, 1570 ! 



WTile Iiand. Kordof.m : around ponds, Kotscliy, 50! Steuduer, 909 ! Kritrea • 

 Guaba, in a lava valley, Schweinfurth, 1670 ! Abyssinia : near (Japdia. Schimper 

 822 I near Gafta, Schimper, 1208 ! Tacazze Valley, Schimper, 1735 ! (Joelleb, 

 Schimper^ 2155! and without precise locality, Schimper, 217! 437! 855! lltlde- 

 hrandt, 365 ! 366 ! liritish East Africa : Kich district, at Ador Villa;je, Petherick ! 

 Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 1984! ser. iii. 192! Kaniasia,''G'r£,<7or_y, 03! 

 Kikumbuliyu; Ngomene, -Sco^^-.E'/^io^, 6227 ! 



Iiower Guinea.. Angola ; Loanda, 1000 ft., Welwitsch, 7029 ! 703 1 ! 707s : 

 Benguela, Welwitsch, 6894 ! Pungo Andongo, 3500 ft., Welwitsch, 6909 \ 6909u ! 

 Huilla, 5000 ft., Welwitsch, Qm^ ! Xamaqualand, Schinz, 388! Dammaralaud, AVn / 



XMCozamb. Bist. Zanzibar, Taylor ! German East Africa : Unyamwezi ; 

 Kezeli (Tabora), Speke Sf Grant ! Kowanda, Fischer, 634 ! and without i)recist- 

 locality, Stuhlmann, 3467 ! Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi ; Tet<.', Kirk I 

 British East Africa : Nyasaland ; Namasi, Camero?j, 12 ! and w.thout ))recisc locality, 

 Buchanan, 624a ! Rhodesia; Tamasetze, Holiib ! Mapani Van, Ilolub .' (iaahuma 

 Flats, Holuh I Boruma, on the Zambesi, Menyharth ! 



Also in India, Australia, and nearly the whole of America. 



This species has been greatly confused with C. uncinatus, Poiret, probably by 

 1 cason of noticing the recurved points of the glumes instead of the more important 

 characters. 



68. C. distans, Linn. f. Suppl. 103. Glabrous, large or medium 

 sized. Stolons elongate, hardening into a stout horizontal rhizome, but 

 many plants flower the first year. Stems 1-3 ft. long. Leaves often 

 as long (or | as long) as the stem, ^-J in. broad. Umbel compound, 

 usually open 8-12 in. in diam., sometimes congested or depauperated ; 

 bracts usually overtopping the umbel, similar to the leaves. Spikelets 

 usually spicate (rhachis of the spike J-2 in. long), h-'^l by tjV iii> almost 

 acicular, reddish, 10-12-flo\vered, in fruit divaricate at right angles; 

 rhachilla very slender, not winged, appearing zigzag in the lower half 

 where the glumes have fallen. Glumes very remote, oblong-elliptic, 

 obtuse. Nut |-4 the length of the glume, oblong or narrow-ellipsoid, 

 trigonous, dusky-black, style much shorter than the nut ; branches 3^ 

 shortly exserted. — Beauv. Fl. Owar. i. 35, t. 20; Kunth, Enum. ii. 93 ; 

 Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 551 ; Boeck. in Linna^a, xxxv. G 1 2 ; C. B. Clarke 

 in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 607, in Durand ct Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. 

 v. 558, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 17M ; Ridley in Trans. Linn. See. 

 ser. 2, Bot. ii. 138 partly; Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot. v. 'lOH ; 

 K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 120, excl. var. /3 ; Engl. Hoi-h- 

 gebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 142 ; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 2s(; ; 

 De Wild. & Durand in Comptes-rendus Soc. bot. Belg. xxxvi. 88 ; Urban, 

 Symb. Artill. ii. o2 ; Bendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 116. C. ehtus, 

 Presl in Oken, Isis, xxi. 271 ; Boeck. in Flora, 1879, 551, not of Linn. 

 C. squamulatus, Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. ii. I'J. C. disaohdus, Boeck. in 

 Flora, 1879, 555, not of H. B. & K. 



