Cyjierus.l clvi. cyperace^ (clarke). M?> 



Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 570, and in Dyer, 

 Fl. Cap. vii. 181. 



DfKozamb. Blst. Portuguese p]ast Africa: Zambesi Delta; Kongone Kiver, 



Kirk ! 



Frequent in South Africa. 



The Zambesi example is the variety longibracteata, C. B. Clarke in Durand & 

 Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 570; but I find (in this as in many other specie* 

 of Cyperacece) the development of the leaves and bracts so variable that not even a 

 vai'iety can be established on such a character. 



97. C. maculatus, Boeck. in Peters, Reise Mossamh. Bot. 539. 

 Glabrous. Stolons xV-yV in. in diam., long, not always present. 

 Stems 12-20 in. long, at the top trigonous and smooth, at the base 

 suberect and bulbous, sometimes (as in Baikie's examples) with the 

 bulb J in. in diam., solid, woody. Leaves nearly as long as the stem, 

 ■J-i in. broad. Umbel compound, sometimes open, 4-0 in. broad, more 

 often 2-4 in. broad, not rarely contracted almost in a head ; bracts o-5, 

 similar to the leaves, the lowest overtopping the umbel. Spikes 

 loosely spicate, of 5-11 spikelets, in flower divaricate, but in dried 

 specimens usually clustered, erect. Spikelets h by o^-yV i^-' i^^^h 

 compressed, exactly linear with parallel sides, 20-fiowered, straw- 

 coloured or frequently purple-spotted; wings of the rhachilla very 

 narrow. Glumes ovate, boat-shaped, obtuse, 1-3-nerved, approxi- 

 mate on the rhachilla, in dried specimens usually tightly imbricated; 

 margins shining, scarious. Style shorter than the nut ; branches 3,. 

 linear, exserted. — C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 

 Afr. V. 567; K. Schura. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 120; Durand & 

 Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 289. C. longus, var. zmacidatus, Boeck. 

 in Linnsea, xxxvi. 282. C. naumannianus, Boeck. in Flora, 1879, 

 552, in Engl. Jahrb. v. 91, and in Engl. Gazelle Reise Bot. 15. 

 C. stolonijerus, var. /3, Boeck. in Linn^a, xxxv. 490. C. galegensiSf 

 C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 285. G. Baikiei, C. B. Clarke in 

 Durand <fe Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 550. C. rotundiis, Benth. in 

 Hook. Niger Fl. 550 partly. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Leprieur! Sierra Leone: between Bumban and 

 Port Lokko, Scott-EUiot, 5676 ! Cape Verd, Perrottet ! Niger Territory : Nupe ; in 

 sandy soil near the river. Barter, 1213 ! 1571 ! River Nigei-, Baikie J 



Wile Ziand. Nubia : Mograd Island, in the Nile, near Abu-Hammed, Koischy, 

 358! 



ZiOwer Guinea. Lower Congo : Stanley Pool, 1000 ft.. Kens, 22 ! banks of 

 the Congo, Smith, 47 I 75 ! 



Soutli Central. Congo Free State : banks of the Congo at Lukolela, 950 ft.. 

 Hens, C, 147 ! and at Lisha, 950 ft.. Hens, C, 150 ! Mzona, Descatnps / 



XVXozamb* I>lst. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, Taylor! Karagwe ; 

 Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 3706 ! Poi-tuguese East Africa : Mozambique, Peters ] British 

 Central Africa : Nyasaland ; between Mpata and the commencement of the 

 Tanganyika Plateau, 2000-3000 ft., Whyte, near Nsessi River, Scott ! near Umbaka 

 River, Scott ! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 1300 ! 1323 ! Boruma, on the 

 Zambesi, Menyharth, 104d ! 



Also in the Mascarene Islands. 



