Marisc/is.] chvi. cyPERA.CE/E (clarke). 385 



spikes ; bracts 3, similar to the leaves, lowest up to 3 in. long. Spikes 

 of 10-12 loosely arranged spikelets. Spikelets J- by -^^ in., ripening 5 

 nuts, red-brown ; rhachilla winged, disarticulating above the two lowest 

 empty glumes ; even the wings hairy. Glumes remote, elliptic-oblong, 

 obtuse, many-striate, minutely pubescent, finally adpressed erect. Nut 

 f the length of the glume, linear-oblong, red-brown. 



Xrile Ziand. British East Africa : Leikipia; at the springs of Xjoro Larabwal, 

 Q-regory, 65 ! 



IMEozamb. Dist. German East Africa : between the coast and Uyui, Taylor ! 



14. M. leptophyllus, C. B. Clarke in Durand d: Schinz, Cons'pect. 

 Fl. Afr. V. 589. Glabrous. Stolons 0. Stems closely approximate, 

 8-1 G in. long, slender, at the top trigonous and smooth, at the base 

 oblong- thickened by scarious withering leaf-sheaths. Leaves -| the 

 length of the stem, yV in. broad, weak. Umbel-rays 2-3, up to \-lh in. 

 long, each with 3-1 spikes ; bracts 4, similar to the leaves, lowest up to 

 4-6 in. long. Spikes ovoid or ellipsoid in outUne, reddish varying 

 from nearly white to a rich brown, of G-IG spikelets. Spikelets 

 J by yV in., moderately compressed, ripening G-8 nuts ; rhachilla winged, 

 disarticulating above the two lowest empty glumes and leaving a little 

 cushion. Glumes ovate-oblong, obtuse, with 7 ribs; rather distantly 

 placed on the rhachilla. Nut J-§ the length of the glume, ellipsoid, 

 trigonous, brown. Style shorter than the nut; branches 3, linear, 

 exserted. — Cyperus leptophyllus^ Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 101 ; Boeck. 

 in Linnaea, xxxvi. 209 ; Engl. Hochgebirsfl. Trop. Afr. 143 ; Schweinf . 

 in Bull, llerb. Boiss. ii. Append, ii. 48, 103. C. amauropus, Steud. Syn. 

 PI. Glum. ii. 33 ; C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 182 ; K.Schum. 

 in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 120. C. hulhosus, var., Steud. in Flora, 1842, 

 594 ; A. Kich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 483 ; not of Vahl. 



Xrile I<and[. Xubia : Hor Tamanib, Lord! Eritrea: Keren, Beccari, 160 1 

 Steudner, 906 ! Valley of Haddas, 3200ft., Schweinfurth, 112 ! Abyssinia : Samen ; 

 mountains at Shoata, Schimper, 1391 ! and without pi'ecise locality, Schimper, 183 ! 

 Bi"itisii East Africa : Athi, Gregory, 30 ! Kikumbuliyu ; Ngomeni, Scott-JEllioi, 

 6255! 



nSozamb. Sist. Zanzibar, ^Vf/Zor .' German East Africa : Usmawo; Kage^i, 

 Fischer, Q'd2\ Kai*agwe; Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 1016! 



Also in Egypt and Arabia. 



15. M. vestitus, C. B. Clarke in Durand d' Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 

 Afr. V. 595. Leaves greener with less withered sheaths. Bays of 

 umbel more numerous, 2-7. Spikelets narrower, subterete. Glumes 

 minutely mucronate ; otherwise as J/, leptophyllus. — C.B.Clarke in 

 Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 188. Cyperus vestitus, Hochst. ex Krauss in Flora, 

 1845, 755 ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 118. C. usitutus, Boeck. 

 in Linnaea, xxxv. 511; C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 17G ; 

 not of Burchell. 



Xf He I.aiad. British East Africa : Mau district, 7000 ft., Scoit-miiof, 6857 ! 



XVXozaznl). Blst. German East Africa : Karagwe; at Kavingo, on the Kiver 



Kagera. Stuhlmann, 1945! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Mandala. <Sco//- 



