;^74 CLvi. CYPERACE^ (clarke). \Cyperu8. 



I'liacliilla are yellow and caducous. The^e wings in C. rotundus and C. longus are 

 sometimes rather early caducous and discoloured ; still not so much so as in Schwein- 

 furth, 2025, which may indicate a new species. 



IIG. C. Pap3rrus, Li7in. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 70. Glabrous. Rhizome 

 woody. Stems subsolitary, 8-15 ft. high, at the base suberect, at the top 

 trigonous or acutely triquetrous or nearly terete. Leaves to the flowering 

 stem 0, i.e. the basal sheaths are shortly produced, discoloured, with 

 hardly any green termination ; but green leaves up to 1 by J in. are 

 formed on the barren shoots. Primary rays of the umbel often >iO, up 

 to a foot long : bracts up to 3J by J in., lanceolate, discoloured with no 

 green termination. Spikes 1 by J in., with 20-30 spreading spikelets. 

 Spikelets J by ^\- in., nearly terete, 6-15-flowered, passing from dusky 

 straw-colour into brown. Glumes broadly elliptic, hardly keeled, 

 obtuse, often emarginate with a very minute mucro, deciduous, rhachilla 

 slender ; wings lanceolate, yellow, early falling with the glumes. Stamens 

 -) ; anthers linear-oblong, the connective bearing a crest J-J the length 

 of the anther. Nut |-4 the length of the glume, ellipsoid, subequally 

 trigonous, ashy-black. Style J the length of the nut, slender ; branches 

 :>, linear, small. — Benth. in Hook. Niger, Fl. 551 ; Pari. Mem. Papyrus, 

 :)2, t. 2, in Mem. Sav. Etrang. St. Petersb. xii. (1854) 501 (cfr. Pari, in 

 Oomptes-rendus Acad. Paris, xxxv. (1852) 211-217) ; Boeck. in Linnaea, 

 xxxvi. 308 ; C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 571, 

 and in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append iii. 30 ; Ridley in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 141; Wydler in Flora, 1864, 609-G16, 1865, 40; 

 Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 118. C\ syriacus, Pari. Fl. Ital.ii. 43, 

 Mem. Papyrus, 31, and Mem. Sav. Etrang. St. Petersb. xii. (1854) 501, 

 as to the Sicily plant. Papyrus Sicida, Pari, in Hook. Kew Journ. iii. 

 (1851) 189. P. Antiquorum^ Link, Enum. i. 47; cfr. Haberlandt in 

 Flora, 1878, 175. — Zimmermann, de Papyro ; cfr. Flora, 18(*)7, 397. 



Upper Guinea* Lagos, Don ! Barter, 20153 ! Ogowe, Bv.cJiholz ! Old 

 Calabar, Robb I 



liower Guinea. Lower Congo: Kisantu, Gillet, 511 ! Congo, SmitJi, 71 

 Cur fur I Gaboon: Loango; in a swamp at Ponta Xegra, Soyaux, 106! Angola: 

 Loanda ; ponds of Maghellao near Boa Vi^ta, Welivitsch, 70851 Gohingo Altoj 

 banks of the River Delamboa, Welwitsch, 7104! 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State, Dewevre, 414 ! Lunda : River Loinani, 

 Pogye^ 1574 ! River Lulua, Pogge, 1585 ! 



nxozamb. Didt. British Centi-al Africa : Nyasaland ; Kondowe to Karonga, 

 2000-6000 ft., Wht/te / 



Also in Sicily. 



Var. ? Anfiqtioriim, C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Coi;spect. Fl. Afr. v. 571. 

 Spikelets more or less deciduous above the two lowest (empty) glumes ; wings of the 

 rhachilla obtuse, falling veiy late. Anthers not crested (the comiective usually 

 hardly produced at all).— C. Papyrus, Linn. Sp. Pi. ed. 2, 70 partly ; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. 

 Abyss, ii. 480; Boeck. in Flora, 1879, 555 ; B.-iss. Fl. Orient, v. 374; Oliver in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc, xxix. 165. C. syriacus. Pari. Fl. Ital. ii. 43, Mem. Papyrus, 31, t. 1, 

 Mem. Sav. Eti'ang. St. Petersb xii. (1854), 501 partly, i.e. as to the Palestine plant. 

 C. mossambicensis, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 541. P. Antiqnorutn, 

 Willd. in Abhandl. Akad. Berlin, 1812, 70; T. Ihoms. in Speke, Nile, Append. 654. 



