354 CLVi. cypERACE^ (clarke). \Cy2)eriis. 



snbcorymbose ; bracts 6-7, up to 8 in. long, similar to the leaves. 

 Spikelets J-J by J in., compressed, 8-14-flowered. Glumes strongly 

 striated, pale ferruginous with green keel, obtuse with a microscopic 

 mucro. 



Wile Ziand. British East Africa : Taita ; Ndi Mountain, in dry sand on rocks, 

 Scott-miiot, 6284 ! 



This plant is, in a word, C. lulbosus on a very large scale. The pale ferru- 

 ginous-green colour of the heads is not to be seen in any of the numerous examiiles 

 of C. hulhosus. 



78. Ce blysmoides, Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 102. Stem, basal 

 bulb, and leaves, exactly as in depauperated examples of G. hulhosus. 

 Inflorescence not at all umbel-like, a simple narrow-oblong spike of B 

 spikelets; bracts hardly any. Spikelets i by ,3^. in., 3-5-flowered, 

 chestnut-red ; otherwise as C. hulhosus. — 0. B. Clarke in Durand & 

 Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 550. C. hulhosus, var. spicatus, Boeck. in 

 Linnsea, xxxvi. 301 ; Martelli, Fl. Bogos. 90 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. 

 Trop. Afr. 14o. HemicJilcena hulhosa, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. 

 Abyss, ii. 509, 



Ifflle ]Land. Eritrea : Bogos, Steudner, 932 ! Abyssinia : near Enderdert in 

 the district of Shoata, S chimp er, 680 ! Gondar, Kericourt / Adowa, Quartin-Billon 

 Sf Petit ! and without precise locality, Schimper, 17 ! 188 ! British East Africa : 

 (iilgil River, 6000-7000 ft., ScotUElliot, 6650 ! 



79. C. Stuhlmanni, C. B. Clarke in Durand d" Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 

 Afr. V. 578. Glabrous. Stem 1 2 in. long, slender bearing bulbs (A^ Schu- 

 mann). Leaves f the length of the stem, \ in. broad, flaccid. Head 1, 

 dense, of 15 dark-red- brown spikelets ; bracts 4, like the leaves, much 

 exceeding the head. Spikelets J-J by ^ in., about 8-fiow^ered. Glumes 

 rounded on the back, very strongly striate, obtuse. Style-branches 3, 

 much exserted, dark-red. — C. Stuhlmannii. K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost- 

 Afr. 0. 118. 



xaozamb Ulst. German East Africa : Karagwe; Kafuro, 4400 ft., StuTiU 

 mann, 1826 ! 



The examples are young, so that it cannot be stated positively whether this is a 

 Cyperus or a Mariscus. Boeckler marked it Cyp. leptophyllus, var., i.e. a Mariscm. 

 Tlie authentic piece at Kew shows a short slender rhizome only ; the bulbils m'en- 

 tioned by K. Schumann make it almost certainly a Cyperus near C. hulhosus. 



80. C. microbolbos, C. B. Clarke. Glabrous. Stolons J-§ in. 

 long, capillai^y, with thin yellow-brown scales, bearing near their ends 

 bulbs yV in. in diam. Stems 3 in. high, rising from a bulb, slender. 

 Leaves twice as long as the stems, setaceous, weak. Inflorescence of 1 

 spike or an umbel of 2 spikes, the ray \ in. long ; bracts 2, exceeding 

 the umbel, setaceous, weak. Spike of 3-5 loosely arranged spikelets. 

 Spikelets ^i^ by J in., compressed, with parallel sides, chestnut-coloured, 

 24-flowere^ ; rhachilla hardly winged. Glumes boat-shaped, ovate, 

 tlie yellow keel excurrent in a short green mucro. Stamens 3 ; anthers 

 linear-oblong, apiculate. Nut J the length of the glume (exclusive of 



