C'l/'peras.] clvi. cyperace.e (clarke). o53 



arising from a bulb, 4-12 in. long, very slender. Leaves numerous, 

 longer than the stem, at the base \ in. broad, but the upper half very 

 narrow and whip-like. Umbel contracted (rays usually not exceeding 

 \-h in. long), irregular subcorymbose (i.e. the lov/est ray often J-jj in. 

 below the others); bracts ^-G, lower much exceeding the umbel, with 

 whip-like ends as the leaves. Spikelets 4-12 in a spike, ra.ther loosely 

 spicate, h by yV~"T(T i^-> compressed, red, 8-2G-flowered ; rhachilla 

 winged; glumes boat-shaped, obtuse, 11-striate, reddish. Nut J the 

 length of the glume, persistent, obovoid, black ; style short ; branches 

 3, long, exserted.— Steud. in Flora, 1842, 504; Boeck. in Linna?a, xxxvi. 

 800, and in Flora, 1870, 554; Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, 

 Bot. ii. 140; Aschers. et Schweinf. 111. Fl. Egypte, 157; Schweinf. 

 Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 215 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. Gil, 

 in Durand k Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 550, and in Bull. Herb. 

 Boiss. iv. Append, iii. 20 ; Terrac. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Ital. i. 4.2^^ ; Engl. 

 Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 148 ; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. 

 Append, ii. 48; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welvv. ii. 118; not of 

 A. Rich. C. jeminicus, Retz. Obs. iv. 11 ; C. B. Clarkein Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. xxi. 175, t. 2, figs. 17-18 (excl. var. /3), and in Journ. Bot. ISOO, 

 18, with fig. ; not of Rottb. C. laxus, R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. Append. 

 Q'2. C. hulbiferus, Dietr. Sp. PI. ii. 824. C. rotundus, Kunth, Enum. 

 ii. 58 partly, not of Linn. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Roger / Perrottety 883 ! Cape Verd Isles : St. 

 Nicolao, Bolle ! 



srile Iiand. Nubia: Wady 0-Maveg, *S'(?/««ei?j/*<fr^A, 406 ! Hor Taniauib, near 

 Suakin, Lord / Abyssinia : in cultivated places neai- Guivarfa, in the Taca//.e 

 Valley, 3000-4000 ft., Schimper, 2238! and without precise locality, Salt! 

 Schimper, 96 I 1250! Somalilaud, Mrs. Lort- Phillip.^ / Keller, 79 ! 82! 



Iiower Guinea. Lower Congo ? Kimuenza, Gillet / Angola: Loanda; sandy 

 shores near the mouth of the Kiver Cuanza, Weltciisch, 7073 ! near the sea at Zamba 

 Giaude and Cabo Lombo, Wehvitsch, 7074 ! Mossamedes : near Cavalheiros, Wei- 

 witsch, 6852 ! 



Also ill Egy])t, Arabia, India and North Australia. 



76. C. usitatus, Burchell^ Trav. S. Afr. i. 417 in note. Bulbs 

 (whence spring the stems) \ in. or more in diam., coat scarious shining 

 chestnut-brown; otherwise nearly as C. hulhosus. — Kunth, Enum. 

 ii. 107 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxv. 511 ; C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. xxi. 170 (excl. syn. C. semitrifidus, Schrad.), in Durand & Schinz, 

 Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 581, in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 170, and in Bull. Herb. 

 Boiss. iv. Append, iii. 81. 



Iiower Guinea. Hereroland : Omaruru, ISchinz, 523 ! Amboland : between 

 Olukonda ;ind Uukuambi, RautaneUt 20. 

 Frequent in South Africa. 



77. C. grandibulbosus, C. B. Clarke. Glabrous. Bulb shortly 

 below the base of the stem, more than J in. in diam., with a black hard 

 coat. Stem 22 in. long, rather stout, striate, at the top trigonous and 

 smooth. Leaves longer than the stem, ^-1 in. broad. Umbel reduced 

 to a dense compound head, 1 in. in diam. of 80 spikelets, at the base 



