350 CLVi. CYPERACE.E (clarke). [Cypertis. 



Upper auinea. Setiegambia, Reudelot, 688 ! 788 ! Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! 

 Don ! Gold Coast, Burton Sf Cameron ! Caraeroons : Bipidde, Zenker, 899 ! and 

 Avithout precise locality, Braun, 16! 24! Fernando Po, Vogel, 218! Mann, 121! 



irile Iiand. Abyssinia: Begemeder; Senka Ber, 4200 ft., ScJdmper, 1552 I 

 and witliout precise locality, Schimper, 176 ! British East Africa : Jur ; Jur 

 Gbattas, Schweinfurth, 2314 ! Nianiniam ; at Nabambisso River, Schweinfurthy 

 3023 ! Ruwenzori, 6000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 7590 ! Lake Losuguta, Gregory, 51 ! 

 Ukainba ; Kitui, Hildebrandt , 2656 ! near Mombasa, Taylor ! 



Xiower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, Bon ! Moller in Fl. Afr. Exsicc. 

 Conimhric, 118 ! Princes Island, WeUoitsch, 7033b ! Gaboon : Munda : Sibange 

 Farm, Soyaux, 326 ! Lower Congo : River Ntombe, near Lutete, 1500-1800 f c, 

 Sens, A, 86 1 255 ! 259 ! Kisantu, Gillet, 671 ! Angola : Ambaca ; at Lake 

 Canguele-Canganga, Welwitsch, 7095 ! Loanda ; Wehvitsch; 7047 ! 7048 ! 7054 ! 

 Bengnela, Menyharth, 202 ! 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State : Monbuttu; Munza, Sc'h.weinf%n't'k, 3506! 

 Bangala, Demeuse, 339! Nyangwe, Po^^e, 2582! Casselange, Po^^e, 1580! River 

 Lukassi, Boyge, 1570 ! 1571 ! 1572 ! 1573 ! Albertville (Tanganyika Region), Muy ! 

 nxozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, KirJc ! Schmidt, 66 ! German East Africa : 

 Usambara ; Amboni, Hoist, 2764 ! Nderema, 2500 ft., Volkens, 123 ! Karagwe ; 

 Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 3728 ! Kavala Islands in Lake Tanganyika, Carson, 1 ! Portu- 

 guese East Africa : Zambesi, AS^ewar^ .' British Central Africa : Nyasaland ! Kondowe 

 to Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte 1 near Umbaku River, Scott I between Matope 

 and Lake Pamelombe, Scott! Zomba, 2800 ft., Whyte! Masuka Plateau, 6500 ft., 

 Whyte I Shire Highlands. Buchanan, 50 ! Scott-Elliot, 8593 ! 



Also in South Africa, the Mascarene Islands, and in nearly all warm regions. 

 Var. niger, C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr.« v. 559. Spike- 

 lets black-chestnut-coloured. 



irile Xiand. Abyssinia, Sch-^mper, 1255 ! 



MozamD. 3>lst. British Central Africa : Urungu, Fwambo, Carf<on, 14 ! 



69. C. nutans, VaJd, Enum. ii. 363. Spikes long, rhachis often 

 1-1 J in. long. Spikelets J-| by -^ in., suberect, brown when dry. 

 Glumes approximate, but in fruit hardly imbricated ; otherwise as 

 C. disians, Linn. f. — Kunth, Enum. ii. 94 ; Boeck. in Linna^a, xxxv. 597; 

 C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 607, and in Durand & Schinz, 

 Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 570 ; Rendle in Cat; Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 116. 

 C. Jacquini, Fenzl in Denksch. Akad. Wissen. Wien, viii. 45, t. 1. 

 C. eleusinoides, Kidley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 137 ; Kendle 

 in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 116. 



Ko^^er Guinea. Angola ; Pungo Andongo; banks of the River Lombe, 

 3500 ft., Welwitsch, 6935 ! banks of the stream near Quilanga, WeUoitsch, 6941 ! 



Frequent in India and China. 



The spikelets being suberect in fruit, the spikes are in the typical plant 1\ by \ in., 

 while in C. distans, Linn. f. (with divaricate spikelets) they are 1-2 in. broad. 

 The spikes are longer than those of C. eleusinoides, and the glumes not (or obscurely) 

 mucronate ; otherwise the two are very closely allied. 



70. C. eleusinoides, Kunth, Enum. ii. 39. Stems 1-3 ft. long, 

 throwing out lateral shoots at the base ; no elongate stolons seen. 

 Spikes about 1 by J in., dense, cylindric, with obliquely spreading green 

 or grey-brown spikelets. Spikelets J by \ in., about 10-flowered. Glumes 



