MaHscics.\ CLVi, cyperace^ (olakke). '6\J7 



C. B. Clarke in Durand tk Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 51)5, and in 

 Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 193. Cyperus umhilensis, Boeck. ms. in herb. Schinz. 

 (7. natalensis, Hort. ex Gard. Chron. 1801, x. 90. 



JmO-wct Guinea. Damaraland; Walfisli Bay, Schinz ! 



Frequent in South Africa. 



48. M. albescens^ Gaud, in Freycinet, Voy. 415. Spikelets not 

 congested in the cylindric spikes, often pale or nearly straw-coloured, 

 sometimes reddish or brown ; otherwise as M. rufus. — C. B. Clarke in 

 Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 023, and in Durand &. Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 

 Afr. V. 584. Cyper^is stuppeics, Forst. Prodr. 89 (C. stipens, Forster, ms.). 

 C. pen7iatus, Lam. 111. i. 144 ; Kunth, Enum. ii. 80 ; K. Schum. in. 

 Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 123. C. canescens, Vahl, Enum. ii. 355 (excl. 

 syn. of Rheede) ; Boeck. in Linnaea, xxxvi. 340. C. macQ^eilema, 

 Jardin in Mem. Soc. Sc. Nat. Cherbourg, iv. (18511) 36 and v. (1857) 

 298. C. pallidus, Willd. ex Link in Sprengel, Jahrb. i. iii. 86. 

 C.fiicatus, Boeck. in Flora, 1882, 13. 



Wile Iiand. British East Africa : Taita ; Ndara, Hildebrandt ! 2437 ! 



Also in the Mascarene Islands, South-east Asia, Malaya, Australia and 

 Polynesia. 



44. M. durus, C. B. Clarke in Durand d- Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 

 Afr. V. 587. Glabrous, stoloniferous. Stems lJ-2Jft. long, at the top 

 obtusely trigonous and smooth ; basal leaf-sheaths with many strong 

 ribs and scardous margins. Leaves J the length of the stem, J in. broad, 

 strongly transversely striate, in the dried state rolled up, hard. Umbel 

 nearly simple, the subcorymbose spikes nearly congested into compound 

 heads at the end of each ray, chestnut-red or ferruginous-brown ; 

 bracts 3-5 up to 6-10 in. long, similar to the leaves, very unequal. 

 Spikelets oblong, maturing 4 nuts. Glumes elliptic, obtuse. Nut 

 linear-oblong; style 3-fid. — C. B. Clarke in Dyer, Fl. Cap, vii. 196; 

 Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 119. Cyperus durus, Kunth, Enum 

 ii. 76 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxvi. 326. C. Icetus, Ridley in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 123, 138, not of Presl. 



liO-nrer Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; in damp wooded places near Eme, 

 Welwitsch, 6860 ! 



Also in South Africa. 



This species might be esteemed only a variety of M. tabularis, which is common 

 in South Africa. 



45. M. flabelliformis, H. B. d: K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. i. 215. 

 Glabrous. Rhizome hardly any. Stems tufted, 12-20 in. long, slender, 

 at the top trigonous and smooth. Leaves often as long as the stem, 

 J in. broad, green. Umbel simple ; rays 2-8, short, rarely up to 1 in. 

 long ; bracts 4-6, similar to the leaves, lowest up to 4—8 in. long. 

 Spikes I by J-|in., of numerous approximate (but distinct) spikelets 

 spreading at right angles; bracts to the spikes often 2 scarcely \ in. 

 long, bristle-like. Spikelets \-\ in. long, maturing 3-8 nuts, linear^ 

 not compressed but almost subquadrangular, a dull green-brown, 

 disarticulating in one piece above the two lowest empty glumes. 



