•C>/perus.] cLVi. cyperace/E (clarke). ;^,51 



mucronate, approximate, in fruit spreading, but little imbricated. Nut 

 often curved ; otherwise as C. distans. — Boeck. in Linmea, xxxv. .j9G • 

 O. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. GOS, and in Durand\\i Schinz] 

 Oonspect. Fl. Afr.v. 559 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfi. Trop. Afr. 141 ; .Schweinf! 

 in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. Append, ii. 48. O. xanthopas, Steud. in Flora^ 

 1842, 595 ; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 485. 6'. kotschyan„H, Fenzl 

 ex Steudel, Syn. PL Glum. ii. 80. 



Wile Iiand. Upper Sennar : Fazokl, Kotschy^ 528 ! Galabat : region of 

 Matanima, Schweinfurth, 2005! 2006! Abyssinia: Modat; by streams in Augar 

 Valley, Schimper, 1021 ! near Demerki, 1155 ! 



Also in the Orient, India, China, Malaya and Queensland. 



71. C. latifolius, Poir. in Lam. Encycl. vii. 2G8. Glabrous. 

 Htolons long, -J-J in. thick. Stem 2-8 ft. long, at the top acutely tri- 

 quetrous. Leaves J the length of the stem, J in. broad. Umbel 

 compound, dense; secondary umbels pyramidal, corymbose; bracts 

 overtopping the umbel, similar to the leaves. Spikes of 4-8 spike- 

 lets; rhachis glabrous or scarcely hairy. Spikelets \- by i in., 

 moderately compressed, pallid or reddish, 8-lG-flowered. Glumes 

 imbricated even in fruit, obtuse. Nut J the length of the glume, 

 obovoid, trigonous, black. — Kunth, Enum. ii. 75 ; Boeck. in Linnaea, 

 xxxv. 602 ; 0. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 5G5, 

 and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 177 ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 120. 



Xrile land. British East Africa : Nandi Range, north of Victoria N\an/,a, 

 6500 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6905 ! 



South Central. Angola : Malange, Buchner I 



XVEozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa : East coast of Lake Nyasa, 

 Johnston, 6 ! British East Africa : Nyasaland ; Zoniba Plains, 250U-30O0 It., 

 Whyte / Mount Zomba, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte ! 



Also in South Africa and the Mascarene Islands, 



72. C. socialis, C. B. Clarke in Durand d; Schinz, Conspect. Fl, 

 Afr. v. 577. Glabrous, leafless. Rhizome horizontal, thick. Stem :; ft. 

 long, stout, at the top acutely triquetrous. Umbel compound, con- 

 tracted, dense; bracts several, the lowest 16 by J in. Spikelets up to 

 80 in the cylindric spikes, spreading, J by y\ in., a little compressed, 

 8-10-flowered ; rhachilla very narrowly winged. Glumes rather remote, 

 dusky, obtuse. Style 8-fid. Nut ^ the length of the glume, oblong- 

 obovoid, black.— Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 118. ('. lati/oliiis, 

 Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 18H, not of Poiret. 



Iiower Guinea. Angola : Cazengo ; at the Lake of Moembege, imt plentiful, 

 Welwitsch, 7068 ! 



The spikes and the spikelets resemble those of C. pilosus, Vahl ; but the rliubs 

 of the spike is quits glabrous. 



73. C. pilosus, Vahl, Enum. ii. 854. Glabrous, except the rhachis 

 of the spikes. Stolons slender, finally hardening into rhizomes. Stom 

 i-2h ft. long, at the top acutely triquetrous. Leaves J the length of 

 the "stem, J-J in. broad. Umbel usually compound ; rhachis of tho 



