MarisCUS.] CLVI. CYPERACEiE (clarkb). 381 



No authentic specimen of M. kyllingicBformis^ Boeck., has been seen. But it 

 would api)ear that the earlier-made species of this author, which are passed by in his 

 later systematic work, were meant to be abandoned. 



Var. incrassatus, C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Couspect. Fl. Afr. v. 587. 

 More robust. Leaves flat, J in. broad, tough, almost leathery ; sheaths large, not 

 torn. Inflorescence 4 in. in diam., of 4-7 spikes fused into a head. 



Mozamb. Dlst. Portuguese East Africa : Isle of Angorna, Peters, 38 ! 



2. M. coloratus, Nees in Linncea, ix. 286. Spikelets ovate or 

 lanceolate, acute. Glumes subacute. Nut ashy-black, puncticulate or 

 manifestly reticulated ; otherwise as M. dregeanus. — Kunth, Enum. ii. 

 126; 0. B Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 585; 

 Rendle in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. ii. 120. Cypeii^s coloratus, Vahl, 

 Enum. ii. ol2 ; Schumach. Beskr. Guin. PI. 34 ; Benth. in Hook. 

 Niger Fl. 550; K..Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 121. C. dubius, 

 Boeck. in Linna?a, xxxvi. 'd'dQ in great part ; Ridley in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 1 3;^> in great part ; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 

 ii. Append, ii. 49. Schmnus coloratus, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 64 partly, 

 Isolepis Bobckeleri, Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 167. 



Upper Crulnea. Gold Coast : Aquapim Mountains, Vogel ' Niger TeiTitory : 

 Jeba, Barter ! 



xrile £and. Somaliland, Miss Edith Cole ! British East Africa : Uganda ; 

 StvMmann, 1950 ! Kamasia, Gregory, 63 ! Rabai Hills, near Mombasa, Taylor ! 



]bo'wer Guinea. Angola : Ambriz, Monteiro ! Pungo Andongo ; on rocks near 

 Quilanga, Welwitsch, 6802 ! on rocks of the Praesidium, Welivitsch, 7162 ! Huilla ; 

 wooded pastures at Monino, Welwitsch, 6804 ! and without precise locality, Curror ! 

 Welwitsch, 7148 ! 



Mozamb. Sist. Zanzibar, Kirlc ! German East Africa : Kilimanjaro ; 

 Maraiigu, 7400 ft., Volkens, 1496 ! and without precise locality, SpeJce S^' Grant ! 

 Lake Tanganyika, Cameron ! 



Var. macrocephala, C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr, v. 586. 

 Very large. Spikes 5-6, large, in one head — Cyperus dnbius, forma macrocephala, 

 Boeck. in Flora, 1870, 556. 



ITile 3band. British East Africa : Niamniam ; at Makporru Hill, ScJtweinftirthy 

 3790! Uganda, Stuhlmann, 1384! Rabai Hills, near Mombasa, Taylor! 



o. M. diurensis, C. B. Clarke in Durand d- Schinz, Conspect. FL 

 Afr. V. 586. Glabrous. Stolons numerous, slender, 1-2 in. long, 

 clothed by red-brown striate scales, terminating in a shoot. Stems 

 approximate, 4-12 in. long, slender, at the top trigonous and smooth, 

 at the base ellipsoid-oblong, thickened by the leaf-sheaths torn into 

 fibres. Leaves often as long as the stem, J in. broad, weak. Head 1, 

 ovoid, J in. in diam., dense, dirty straw-coloured ; bracts 4, up to 3-6 

 in. long, similar to the leaves, at the base dilated and suberect, then 

 spreading. Spikelets I in. long, very little compressed, 2-6-flowered, 

 caducous in one piece by an articulation above the two lowest empty 

 glumes. Glumes distant, in fruit not overlapping, ovate, obtuse, very 

 strongly 11-18-ribbed, with red round small glands. Nut h-'i the 

 length of the glume, trigonous, oblong-ellipsoid, black. Style nearly as 



