386 CLvi. CYPERACE.E (clarke). [Mariscus. 



Ulliot, 84611 Mount Sochi, Scott-Elliot, 8574! Zornba, Whyte and McClounie ! 

 Namasi, Cameron, 93 ! 95 ! 



Also in Extratropical South Africa. 



The plants collected by Cameron (93) liave very narrow leaves, the spikelets and 

 glumes very obtuse, and may indicate a separable species. 



16. M. concinnus, C. B. Clarke in Journ. Bot. 1896, ^24. 

 Glabrous. Stems 8-18 in. long, slender, at the top trigonous and 

 smooth, at the base oblong-thickened by membranous leaf-sheaths. 

 Leaves J the length of the stem, ^ in. broad, flaccid. Umbel-rays 

 2-5, \-2 in. long ; bracts 3, similar to the leaves, lowest 3 in. long. 

 Spikes of 2—8 spikelets, chocolate-red. Spikelets f by |^ in., turgid, 

 slightly compressed, perfecting 6-10 nuts.; rhachilla winged, disarticu- 

 lating above the two lowest empty glumes. Glumes obtuse, with 9 

 slender ribs^ erect in fruit, not keeled. Nut J the length of the glume, 

 broadly oblong, trigonous, black-red, dotted. Style rather shorter than 

 the nut ; branches 3, linear, exserted. 



DTile Iiand. British East Africa : Eiver Nagut, at Lake Elemeteita, 6500 ft., 

 Gregory, 46 ! Giryama and Shimba (Tsimba) Mountains, Taylor ! 



17. M. bulbocaulis, Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 102. Glabrous. 

 Stems 4-6 in. long, slender, at the top trigonous and smooth, at the 

 base ovoid-thickened and enclosed by brown scarious leaf-sheaths. Leaves 

 j the length of the stem, ^ in. broad. Head of 3-2 ovoid spikes nearly 

 fused into 1 dense head J- J in. in diam., pale straw-coloured, more or 

 less purple-spotted ; bracts 3-4, similar to the leaves, dilated at the 

 base, spreading, the lowest up to 2-3 in. long. Spikelets \ in. long, 

 ovoid-oblong in fruit, ripening 1 nut only. Glumes ovate, acuminate, 

 hardly acute, thin, with 5-7 obscure ribs. Nut ^ the length of the 

 glume, broadly ellipsoid, somewhat obovoid, trigonous, black. Style 

 shorter than the nut ; branches 3, linear, long. — M. bulbosus, Steud. 

 Syn. PL Glum. ii. 62. Kyllijiga bulbosa, Steud. in Flora, 1842, 597, 

 not of Beauv. Cyperus bulbocaulis, Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxvi. 372 ; 

 Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 144, not C. bulbocaulis, Boeck. in 

 Linnsea, xiLxviii. 408. 



Wile I.and. Abyssinia: Samen ; on hills near Enderder, Schimper, 579 1 and 

 without precise locality, Schimper, 229 ! 



Var. atrosanguineus, C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect Fl. Afr. v. 585. 

 Spikelets chestnut-red or chestnut-black, elongated. — M. atrosanguineus, Hochst. ex 

 A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 490. M. Eochstetteri, Walp. Ann. iii. 678. 

 M. plateilema, var. airosanguinea, Steud. Syn. PI, Glum. ii. 62. Cyperus varie- 

 gatus, var. atrosanguineus, Boeck. in Linna9a, xxxvi. 337; Engl. Hochgebirg-fl. Trop. 

 Afr. 143 partly. 



Nile Iiand. Ahyssinia : Samen ; En^edcA^, Schimper, 575! Begemeder; near 

 Selamuko, Schimper, 1308! near Gafat, Schimper! 



Mozaiab. Bist. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; on rocks at Ndurandi, 

 Scctt-Mliot, 8477 ! 



18. M. plateilema, Steud. in Flora, 1842, 596, and Syn. PI. Glum. 

 ii. 62, character emended. Bracts more dilated at the base. Spikelets 



