394 CLvi. CYPERACE^ (clarke). [Jlaviscits. 



top trigonous and smooth ; leaf-sheaths entire, not striate. Leaves J 

 the length of the stems, hardly ^ in. broad, green, flaccid. Spikelets 

 IT), condensed into a compound head, J in. in diam., lurid or blackish 

 green ; bracts G-8, similar to the leaves, lowest up to 8-10 in. long. 

 Spikelets i in. long, compressed, of 4 glumes, maturing 1 nut. Lowest 

 empty glume lanceolate, acute, not bristle-tipped ; nut-bearing glume 

 ovate, acuminate, with a small recurved mucro, slendeily 9-striate, red- 

 spotted. Stamens 3 ; anthers linear-oblong, muticous. Ovary lanceo- 

 late; style short; branches ?>, long. — Ci/jyerus jSoyavxii, Boeck. in Engl. 

 Jahrb. v. 501. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast : Kwaliu, 2000 ft., Johnson, 663 ! 



Xiower Guinea. Gaboon : Munda ; Maveli, Soyatix, 32ob ! 



3G. M. deciduus, C. B. Clarke in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 191. 

 Glabrous, slender. Stem 12-18 in. long, at the top trigonous and smooth; 

 basal leaf-sheaths' not scarious withering. Leaves \ the length of the 

 stem, hardly \ in. broad. Umbel-rays 8-5, slender, up to \\ in. long, 

 each terminated by 3—1 small subspicate spikelets ; bracts 3, similar to 

 the leaves, lowest shorter than the umbel. Spikelets jV^^- ^^^^5 very 

 green, 2-4-flowered, early caducous in one piece above the two lowest 

 empty obtuse glumes. Glumes approximate, but spreading on the 

 wingless rhachilla, broadly oblong, neither ribbed nor keeled. Stamens 

 3 ; anthers linear-oblong, muticous. Style as long as the young ovary ; 

 branches 3, long. — Cyperus deciduus, Boeck. in Flora, 1879, 547 ; 

 C. B. Clarke in Durand k Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 555. 



Soutb Central. Lunda: Kimbuiidu, on the Kiver Lovo, Fogge, 466 ! 



Also in the Transvaal. 



37. M. albopilosuS) C. B. Clarke. Stems 14 in. long, slender, at 

 the top trigonous, densely and minutely white-hairy. Leaves 4 by 

 \ in., with their sheaths nearly glabrous, scabrous hairy towards the 

 tip. Head \-\ in. in diam., dense, of numerous small white spikelets ; 

 bracts 3, spreading, the lowest up to \\ in. long, similar to the leaves, 

 often white-hairy towards the tip. Spikelet of 3 glumes, with a 

 rudimentary glume, deciduous, with the 1 nut above the two lowest 

 empty (not setaceous) glumes. Nut-bearing glume ovate, scarious- 

 white, slenderly few-nerved ; rhachilla broadly v/inged, resembling 

 closely the nut-bearing glume, crowned by a triangular rudiment of the 

 uppermost glume. Nut as long as the glume broadly ellipsoid, 

 trigonous, black, white-reticulate. Style 3-branched. 



Mozamb. I>lst. British Central Africa : Nyas:iland ; Mount Malosa, 40C0- 

 6000 ft., Whyte ! Mount Zomba, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte ! 



38. M. Rohlfsii, C. B. Clarke. Glabrous. Stems 2 ft. high, 

 rather stout, at the top triquetrous and smooth. Leaves f the length 

 of the stem, i in. broad. Umbel simple; rays 8, up to 1| in. long; 

 bracts 6-8, similar to the leaves, lowest up to 12 in. long. Spikes 1 by 

 J in., exactly cylindric, of very numerous spikelets spreading at right 

 angles, rose-red. Spikelets \ in. long, oblong or ellipsoid, falling oft 



