Ct/pencs.] cLvi. CYPERACEiE (clakke). 375 



Papift'Ks mossambicensis. Pari, ex Peters, Reise Mossanib. Bot. t. 59. Papi/ru.s, Bruce, 

 Ti-av. V, Append. 1-15, t. 1. 



Wile ILand. White Nile, Petheriek ! Brownell ! Werne! British East Africa : 

 (lazclle River, Schweinfurth, 1154! Niamniam; at the River Bodumoli, 8chwein- 

 Jurth, 3749 ! 



XHozamb. Blst. Zanzibar, Hildehrandt, 1193 ! German East Africa : Karagwe ; 

 Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 1618! Portuguese East Africa; Mozanibi(iue, Peters ! banks of 

 the River Shire at Shauia, Scott ! 



Also in the northern part of the Nile and in Palestine. See Thiselton-Dyer in 

 Gard. Chron. iii. (1875), 78. 



This variety fonns a ti*ansition from Cyperus into Marisctis, the spikelets 

 showing a distinct tendency to fall off whole from above tlie twolowest empty glumes. 



Imperfectly known species. 



117. C. bulamensis, Stevd. Syn. PI. Glum. ii. 19. Root fibrous. 

 Stem 1|- ft. long, slender. Leaves ^ the length of the stem, slender. 

 Umbel simple ; rays 2 in. long. Spikes of 5-9 spikelets. Spikelets 

 sf^arcely -h ^n. long, linear, slender, somewhat compressed. Glumes 

 loosely imbricate, ovate, obtuse, 7-9-nerved, dusky straw-coloured. 

 Nut J the length of the glume, triquetrous, linear, slender. 



Upper Guinea. Portuguese Guinea: Bissagos Islands; Bulama Island. 



118. C. Cadamostiy BoUe ex Krause in Engl. Jahrb. xiv. 400. 

 Ca^spitose. Stem 1 ft. high. Leaves rigid, flat, narrow-linear. Bracts 

 1-2, a little longer than the rays. Spikes sessile, numerous, about 

 ()-flowered. Glumes acute, rufous with hyaline margins. 



Upper Guinea. Cape Verd Isles : near Porto Grande ; Krause, Schmidt. 



119. C. depauperatus, Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. ii. 34. Rhizome 

 bulbous-woody. Stem 3 ft. high, acutely triquetrous. Leaves up to a 

 foot long, flat, 3-nerved. Bracts 5-6, nearly all of them many times 

 longer than the simple umbel. Rays of umbel (J- 18, hardly exceeding 

 1 in. long. Spikelets aggregated, very short, ovate, 3-5-flowered. 

 Glumes membranous, ovate, obtuse, 7-9-nerved, pale ferruginous. Nut 

 triquetrous, rather obtuse, pale brown. 



irile ILand. Abyssinia, ^ScAeTw^er (ex Steudel). 



Steudel inquire?, " Is this a variety of C. ochreoides, Steud. ? " a species reduced 

 above to C.fenzelianus, Steud. 



1 20. C. dilatatus, Sckumach. d- Thonniny, Beskr. Gain. PI. 38. 

 Root fibrous ; stem bearing stolons. Leaves lax. Umbel subcompound ; 

 rays elongate ; bracts about 5, similar to the leaves. Spikelets alter- 

 nate, somewhat remote, about 1 in. long with 18 flowers, linear, acute. 

 (Humes lanceolate, concave, obtuse. 



Guinea. Thonniag. 



121. C. flexifolias, Boeck. in Flora., 1879, 549. Root with purple 

 fibres. Stems often 2 together, erect, firm, slender, 10-5 in. high, 

 scarcely -}^ in in diam., triangular, grooved, striate, several-leaved at 



