C}/pcriis.'\ CLvi. CYPERACE.E (clarke). 3G1 



in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 99 ; Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 

 139 partly, not of Klein nor of Kunth. 



Vpper Guinea. Sierra Leone : near Freetown, Afzelius ! Welwitsch, 7058 ! 

 .Senegal, Heudelot, 458 ! 559 ! Lecard, 149 ! Gambia, Mungo Park ! Lagos ; Millen, 

 107! 



Jtower Guinea. Gaboon: Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyaux^ 355! Lower 

 Congo: Kimuenza, Gillet ! Stanley Pool, 1000-2000 ft.. Hem, 34! 56! 399! 

 Kisantn, Qillet, 610 \ 1511! Angola: Pungo Andongo; between the River Cuanza 

 and Caghiiy, Welwitsch, 6940 partly ! 



South Central. Congo Free State : Lunda ; Mukenge, Pogge, 1578 ! 1583 I 

 1610 ! 



Mozamb. Bist. German East Africa : Usambara ; Tanga, Hoist, 2026 ! 

 Portuguese East Africa : Mozambique, Kuntze, 202 ! British Central Africa : 

 Zambesi Valley; Boruma, Menyharth, 658! 



Also in Tropical and Sub-tropical Asia and Australia. 



Var. parva, C. B. Clarke. Plants small, slender, with very narrow leaves, much 

 dei)auperated umbel, and dull-coloured hardly at all yellow spikelets. 



Xiower Guinea. Lower Congo : Lutete, 1800-2000 ft.. Hens, A, 220 ! 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State : Bussindi, 950 ft.. Hens, C, 159 ! Equator- 

 ville. Hens, C, 178 ! Lusambo, on the River Sankuru, Duchesne, 16 ! 



In Hens, 159, 178, the stems are sometimes reduced to 4 in. long, and the umbel to 

 a single head of 3-5 spikelets. In the variety robusta, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. 

 Ost-Afr. C. 120 (i.e. Hoist, 2026), the umbel is more than 2 ft. in diam. The species 

 varies greatly iii development in India; it can generally be recognised by the 

 distant glumes and subquadrangular spikelets. 



92. C. schweinfurthianus, Boeck. in Flora, 1879, 553. Stem 

 tall, at the top very scabrous. Glumes apiculate ; otherwise as 

 C. Zollingeri. — C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 

 576 ; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 117. C. tenuiculmis, Boeck. in 

 Linnrea, xxxvi. 28G, and in Engl. Jahrb. v. 91 partly. 0. lucididuSy 

 C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 99 partly; Ridley in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 1:^9 partly, not of Klein. 



Upper Guinea. Togo, Kling, 71 ! Lagos : Abeokuta, Irving ! Niger Terri- 

 tory; Xupe, Barter, 1573 ! Lokoja district, Richardson, 4!. 



srile Iiand. British East Africa : Jur ; Jur Ghattas, Schiveivfurth, 2318 ! 

 Ruwenzori ; Semliki Valley, Scott-Elliot, 7992 ! 



Iiower Guinea. Lower Congo : Kisantu, Gillet, 586 ! Angola : Pungo Andongo; 

 Quitage on the River Cuije, Welwitsch, 6940, partly ! 



Var. ? levicaulis, C. B. Clarice. Stem quite smooth at the top, 2 ft. long. 

 Umbel compound ; primary rays 3-4 in. long. Spikelets (young) ^ by nearly -^ in., 

 somewhat lanceolate (i.e. narrowed at both ends), very flat, yellow, 



XMCozamb. Bist. British Central Africa : Urungu ; Fwambo, Carson, 19 ! 



I doubt this being any variety of C. schioeinfurthianns. The inflorescence and 

 flat lanceolate spikelets are more like those of C . fenzeliatnis ; but the spikelets are 

 too broad for that species or C. rotandus or any of its neighbours. 



98. C. elatior, Boeck. in Flora, 1879, 553, not in Linncea, 

 xxxvi. 327. Stem '2^ ft. high, at the t(3p smooth. Umbel compound; 

 rays up to 10 in. long. Spikelets 1 by J- in., 20-30-llowered, suberect ; 



