87G CLVI. CYPERACE^ (CLARKE). [Cf/pn'tlfi. 



the base. Leaves close together, flexuose, much shorter than the stem, 

 rigid, narrow, long acuminate, acute, keeled, 6-3 in. long, at the base 

 about yV in. broad ; margins reflexed and keel acutely toothed. 

 Bracts 4-3, very spreading, 4-1 in. long. Umbel hemispheric, com- 

 pact, many-rayed, 2J-1 in. in diam., in small specimens reduced to a 

 single head ; rays covered with spikelets to the base. Spikelets densely 

 clustered, linear oi-* linear-oblong, compressed, obtuse, |-^ by -^ in., 

 18-40-flowered. Glumes caducous, very minute, densely imbricate, 

 close-pressed, boat-shaped, obovate-rounded, 7-nerved on the back, 

 evidently mucronate below the rounded tip, straw-coloured-rufous, 

 later ferruginous-red, shining. Nut most minute, J shorter than the 

 glume, half-glassy, oval, equilateral triangular, minutely punctate, 

 yellow. Style only a little exserted, very slender, 3-fid down to the 

 middle. 



ILo^ver duiuea. Uii an Island at the moutli of the Congo, near Ponta da 

 Lenha, Naiima7in, 143, 150 (ex Boeckeler). 



Allied to C. pr'oteinolejjis, I^oeck. By C. proteinolepis, Boeckeler would mean 

 C. effusus, Kottb., ahovc. 



122. C. miqueiiauus, Zarh in Cat. Spec. Bot. Pftntd^ oD, name 

 only. 



wile Xiand. Kordofan : Oin (xaseh, Pfund, 613 (ex Zarh). 



123. C. Mueileri, Boeck. in Flora, 1859, 434 his. Koot fibrous, 

 very slender. Stem very slender, erect, somewhat compressed, striated, 

 almost angular (in the smaller example setaceous and subtrigonous), 

 at the base thickened and leaf-bearing. Leaves short, narrow, 2-1 by 

 scarcely ^t ^^•■) little recurved, somewhat rigid, long setaceous-acuminate, 

 keel small, margins involute, at the top scabrous-toothed ; leaf -sheaths 

 short, dilated, hyaline, membranous, with strong nerves. Umbel 

 simple ; rays C, 3 subequal, 1 in, long, " the rest sessile," each with 4 

 spikelets (or in the smaller example with 2-1 spikelets); bracts 7. 

 similar to the leaves, the 3 longer as long as the rays. Spikelets 

 spreading, J by -}^ in., linear, compressed, dusky, at the top a little 

 narrowed, yellow, 40-30-flowered. Glumes, approximate, spreading, 

 ovate, keeled (especially upwards), tip emarginate with a short erect or 

 spreading mucro, 3-nerved, yellowy the sides fuscous, the keel prominent, 

 green. Nut very minute, scarcely h the length of the glume, round- 

 obovate, triangular, very obtuse, minutely dotted, dusky, terminated 

 by a black point : rhachilla rather thick, flexuose, wingless ; style very 

 slender, 3-fid. 



IMLGzaxub. Xiist. Mozambique, ex Boeckeler. 



Boeckeler says this species belongs to the Sect. Aristati, and is near C. oligo- 

 stachyus, H. B. & K. 



124. C. recux*viis, Yahl, Ennm. ii. 310. Stems several, 4 in. long 

 and upwards, setaceous, leafy at the base. Leaves as long as the stem, 

 setaceous. Head globose, but little larger than a pea; bracts 3, 1 in. 



