Ci/jyerusJ] clvi. cypebacejb (clarke). 357 



round or nearly so, showing (at least when dry, owing to shrinkage of 

 the pith) transverse-rings J-lJ in. apart. Leaves 0, or the green 

 termination of the top sheath rarely 1 in. long. Umbel 4-8 in. in 

 diam., compound or smaller (sometimes hardly 1 in. in diam.) with few 

 spikelets; bracts J-f in. long, elliptic-lanceolate. Spikes of 3-4 

 spikelets, but several congested into 1 apparent spike of numerous 

 spikelets. Spikelets \-l by oV-yV ^^-^ 12-50-flowered, linear, straw- 

 coloured or dirty-brown. Glumes obtuse, scarcely keeled. Nut ^ the 

 length of the glume, oblong-ellipsoid, black ; style-branches 3, long, 

 little exserted. — Kunth, Enum. ii. 53 ; Barker Webb in Hook. Niger 

 Fl. 182; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxvi. 274; T. Thorns, in Speke, Nile, 

 Append. 653 ; Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 165 ; Ridley in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 141 partly ; C. B. Clarke in Hook, f . Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. vi. 611, in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 548, and in 

 Bull. Herb. Bo'ss. iv. Append, iii. 29; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl.Ost- 

 Afr. C. 120 ; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. Append, ii. 48, 102 ; 

 Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 283 ; Urban, Symb. Antill. ii. 

 33; Bendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 117. C. niloticus, Forsk. Fl. 

 ^gypt.-Arab. 13 ; Beauv. FL Owar. ii. 63, t. 97, fig. 2. C . fistulosus, 

 Ehrenb. ex Boeck. in Linnsea xxxvi. 275. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal ; Sieher, 101 ! DolHuger, 58 ! Seuclelot, 522 ! 

 Capo Verd Islands : St. Antonio, Lowe ! St. Nicolao, Lowe ! Bolle ! St. lago, 

 Brunner ! (lambia, Heudelot, 344 ! Sierra Leone : River Bagru, Mann, 894 ! 

 Gold Coast: Accra; Buettner ! Aslianti, Bowdich! Niger Territory : Old Calabar, 

 Bobb ! Continence of the River Quorra (Niger) and the River Tchadda (Benue), 

 Barter ! Cameroons, Buchholz ! Fernando Po, Barter ! 



Iffile Iiand. Eritrea : Ainsaba Valley near Keren, Sfeudner, 905 ! Habab 

 district, 5500 ft., Hildehrandt^ 361b ! Somaliland, Keller, 92 ! 95 ! British East 

 Africa : banks of the White Nile, Petherick ! Speke & Grant ! east side of the 

 Albert Edward Nyanza, Scott-Elliot, 8051 ! Mombasa, Taylor ! 



Xiower Guinea. Gaboon : Salowe, Soyaux, 273 ! Lower Congo, Smith, 14 ! 

 26 ! Angola : Congo ; edges of lakes at Qnizembo, Wehvitsch, 7034 ! Ambriz, 

 Monteiro ! Icolo e Bengo ; edges of Lagoa da Funda, Welwitsch, 7051 ! 7089 ; 

 Pungo Andongo ; banks of the River Cuanza, Wehvitsch, 6936 ! 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State ; Monbutta ; Munza, Schweinfurth, 3446 ! 

 by the River Sankuru, Demeuse ! Mzona, Lescamps ! Lunda, Pogge^ 1586 ! 



IMEozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Hildehrandt, 1058 1 Schmidt, 65 ! German East 

 Africa : Usambara ; Masheua, Hoist, 3521 ! Kilimanjaro ; Lake Yipe, 2500 ft., 

 Volkens, 2372 ! 2387 ! Portuguese East Africa : Mozambique, Peters, 8 ! Luabo 

 River, Kirk/ British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Elephant Marsh in the Shire 

 A'^ahey, Scott I Ngamiland; Lake River, Lugard, 12 ! 



In the tropical and warm regions of both hemispheres. 



85. C. corymbosus, Rotib. Descr. et Ic. 42, t. l^fig. 4. Stem at 

 the top round, or round trigonous, not (or very obscurely) transversely 

 septate when dry. Leaves (i.e. the green portion) attaining sometimes 

 5 in. in length, but usually very short or hardly any. Bracts usually 

 J-j the height of the umbel, but sometimes overtopping it. Spikes 

 less clustered ; otherwise as C. articulatiis. — C B. Clarke in Hook. f. 

 Fl, Brit. Ind. vi. 012, in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. FL Afr. v. 554, 



