ii'tC, CLVI. CYPERACE.^ (CLARKE). [Ol/peO'US. 



at the top. Leaves often J-| the length of the stem, ^-J in. broad. 

 Umbel compound or nearly simple. ^d-l2 in. in diam. ; bracts 3-5, 

 similar to the leaves, as long as the umbel or longer. Spikes of 4-30 

 spikelets. Spikelets J-| by -^jj in., with parallel sides, compressed 

 but more or less turgid, from pale yellow to deep brown, 6-30- 

 flowered ; rhachilla winged. Glumes obscurely keeled, muticous, 

 prominently striate. Nut scarcely | the length of the glume, obovoid ; 

 style much shorter than the nut, with 3 often much exserted branches. 

 — Kunth, Enum. ii. 61 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxvi. 287 ; Coss. S: Durieu, 

 Expl. Scient. Alger. Glum. 246 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. vi, 616, in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 551), in Bull. 

 Herb. Boiss. iv. Append, iii. 29, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 180 ; Ridley 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 138 partly ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. 

 Trop. Afr. 142 ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 120 ; Durand & 

 Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 287 ; Volk. Kilimand. 285 ; De Wild. & 

 Durand in Comptes-rendus Soc. bot. Belg. xxxvi. 88 ; Urban, Symb. 

 Antill. ii. 33; Bendle in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. ii. 117. C. j^hymatodes, 

 Muhl. Descr. Gram. 23 ; Kunth, Enum. ii. ^2 ; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. 

 Aethiop. 215. C. mel-anoi^rhizus, Del. Fl. ^gypt. Illust. 50. C. scir- 

 poides, R. Br. ex Hochst. in Flora, 1841, i. Intell. 21. C. rotundicSj 

 var. (an C. lucidulus, Klein ?), Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 550 in Obs. 

 C. Bucha/iani, Boeck. Cyp. Novae, i. 4. C. chrysostachys, Boeck. in 

 Flora, 1859, 438 bis. C. auricomus, herb. Sieber. partly. 



Upper Guinea. Cape Verd Islands, Cardosa, 250 ! Moseley ■ JSolle ! Senegal, 

 Heudelot, 518! L^prieur, 2! Roger! Lecard, 117! Sierra Leone, Vogel, 31! 

 Dahomey, Newton / Kiver Niger, Baikie / Caraeroons : Yaunde, 2600 ft., Zenker 

 Sf Standi, 517 ! 



Nile Xiand. Eritrea : near Keren, Steudner, 903, partly ! Kordofan, 

 Kotschy, 52 ! Pfund, 632 ! Abyssinia, Schimper, 21 ! 62 ! 273 ! 1205 ! 1246 ! 

 British East Africa: Jur ; Kurshook Ali's Seriba, Sehweinfurth, 1731 1 Kivata in 

 Ruwenzori region, 6000 ft., Scott-Mliot, 7740 ! 



Iio^irer Guinea. Princes Island, Mann / Lower Congo ; near Stanley Pool at 

 Kinchassa, 7/e?25, B, 49 ! Boina, 5^e??5, 392, partly ! Angola : Dondo,ilfecAow, 9 ! 92! 

 Underton and San Salvador, Buettner, 6 ! 17 ! Malange, Pogge, 463 ! Oolungo Alto ; 

 in gravelly places at the foot of Mount Cungulungulo, Welwitsch, 7098 ! around 

 Sange and throughout Sobato Bumba, Welicitsch, 7102, partly ! Pungo Andongo ; 

 near the Prsesidium, Welwitsch, Q907 > \ya,Yt\y \ German South-west Africa: Dara- 

 maraland, cultivated specimen / 



Soutli Central. Congo Free State, Dewevre, 474 ! 



IKXozamb. X>ist. Zanzibar, '^Taylor / German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, 

 3500-5000 ft., Volkens, 660 ! 2111 I Lake Tanganyika, Cameron ! British Central 

 Africa: Nyasaland ; Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 23! Xamasi, Cameron^ 14! 

 Zomba, 2800-3500 ft., Whyte ! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 4AQ \ 



In nearly all warm countries, abundant in America. 



The bulbs are roasted and eaten in Dammaraland, as in many other countries. 

 This species is much confused with the universal C. rotundus^ from which it is most 

 readily distinguished by the markedly striate glumes. 



84. C. articulatus, Linn, Sp. PL ed. 2, 66. Glabrous. Stolons 

 long, hardening into stout woody rhizomes. Stems 3-6 ft. high, at the top 



