390 CLVi. CYPERACE^ (clarke). [MciHscus, 



24. M. umbellatus, Vahl, Enum. ii. . 876 partly. Spikelets 

 smaller, denser and more rigid than in M. sieherianus ; spikes J by J in. 

 (or often short and nearly globose) ; in ripe fruit all the spikelets 

 strongly deflexed ; rays of umbel often (some of them) many times 

 longer than the spikes ; nut oblong or almost ellipsoid ; otherwise as 

 M. sieherianus. — Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 552 ; C. B. Clarke in 

 Durand & Schinz, Conspfect. Fl. Afr. v. 595 ; Durand & Schinz, Etudes 

 Fl. Congo, i. 298 ; Urban, Symb. Antill. ii. 41 ; Rendle in Cat. Afr. 

 PI. Welw. ii. 121. M. alternifolius, Vahl, Enum. ii. 376; Schumach. 

 Beskr. Guin. PL 40; Kunth, Enum. ii. 126. M. cylindristachyus^ 

 8teud. Sjn. PI. Glum. ii. 65. Kyllinya umhellata, Rottb. Descr. et Ic. 1 5, 

 t. 4, fig. 2, excl. some syns. ; Linn. f. Suppl. 105. Cyperus ovularis, 

 Boeck in Linnjea, xxxvi. 376, var. a partly, not of Torrey. C. umbellatus^ 

 C, B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 296 (excl. the varieties), xxi. 

 200 var. a partly; Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc! ser. 2, Bot. ii. 144; 

 Boeck. in Engl.. Jahrb. v. 91 ; Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot. v. 209 ; 

 Boeck. in Engl. Gazelle Reise, Bot. 15. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal : Mbidjein, Tlderry, 12 ! Upper Senegal, Lecard^ 

 77 ! 91 ! 102 ! 215 partly ! Gambia, Mungo Park ! Sierra Leone, Smeathmann, 85 ! 

 Vogel ! Wehrifsch, 7062 I Cape Verde Isles, -Bo//e .' Liberia : Momyoy in, Nov ma n» 

 (ex Boeckeler). Ashanti : Akraful, Cummins, 29 ! D;ihon.ey, Newton, 2 ! Niger 

 Territory: Nupe, Barter! Baikie! River Niger (Quorra), Vogel! Marshall! 

 Guinea, Jardin (ex Stendel). Cross Elver, Johnston! Caineroons : Eipinde, 

 Zenker, 897! d without precise locality, Preuss, 1101 753! Fernando To, 

 Barter^ 1584 ! ^^, 



XTile Iiand. Upper Sennar : Fazckl, Figari ! 



IiO-virer Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, 3Ioller, 124! Princes Islnnd, 

 fVelwitsch, 7063 I 7064 ! Annobon Island, Btwton ! Lower Congo, Hens, 100 ! 108 ! 

 268 ! 317 ! 390 ! 398 ! Demeuse, 341 ! Stanley Pool, Luja, 16 ! Angola : Golni go 

 Alto ; Quibanga Forest, Weltviisch, 7006 I Pungo Andonga ; on the Prsesidinm, 

 Welwitsch, 7009 partly ! Loanda, Welwitsch, 7102 ! and without precise locality, 

 Welwitsch, 7008 ! 7008b ! 7159 ! 7165 ! 



Soutli Central. Congo Free State: Mukenge, Pogge, 1575! 1579! and 

 vviihout precise locality, Dewevre, 273 ! 



niozamb. Dist. Gennan East Africa: Karagwc; Bukoba, Stuhlmavn, 

 1447 ! Lake Tanganyika, Boehm, 81 ! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Zumba 

 Plains, 2500-3500 ft., Whyte ! 



Also in the Mascarene Islands and in Martinique. 



25. M. sublimis, C. B. Clarke in Durand d- /Schinz, ConspecU 

 Fl. Afr. V. 594. Umbel simple ; rays 7-10, up to 2 J in. long. Spikes 

 up to J by J in., very dense, pale grey ; spikelets in ripe fruit (even 

 those at the base of the spikelet) adpressed obliquely erect. Nut only 

 1 to a spikelet, ellipsoid, somewhat obovoid ; otherwise as M. sieherianus. 

 — Killingia umhellata, P. Beauv. Fl. Owar. i. 91 t. 55. Cypei'm 

 steudelianus, Boeck. in Flora, 1879, 556, not Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxvi. 

 382. G. ovularis, Boeck. in Flora, 1879, 557, not Boeck. in LiiJiia?a, 

 xxxvi. 876. 



arile Xiand. British East Africa : Jur ; Jur QihixtiSiS, Schtveinfnrth, l^Obl 

 1842! 



