402 CLVi. CYPERACE^ (clarke). [3faris(yu8^ 



55. M. pseudopilosuSy Durand d- Be Wild, hi Comptes-rendus 

 jSoc. hot. liely. xxxvi. ^\). Glabrous except the rhachis of the spikes. 

 Stem at the top 1 in. in diam., triquetrous, almost 3-winged. Umbel 

 compound or simple ; primary rays 5-7, up to 3 in. long; bracts 5-8^ 

 lowest up to 12 by h in. ; bracts at the top of the primary rays up to 

 lJ-2 in. long. Bpikes subcorymbose-digitate, 1 in. long, of 10-30 

 spikelets ; rhachis densely short-hairy. Spikelets i by ^ in., deflexed 

 in fruit, 10-1 2 -flowered, dirty straw-coloured, deciduous in one piece 

 above the two lowest empty glumes. Fertile glumes remote, elliptic, 

 obtuse, concave, Xut U the length of the glume, ellipsoid, trigonous, 

 black. Style h the length of the nut ; branches 3, linear. 



^O'wer Guinea. Lou er Congo: Bingilji, 7>M/>«a's / 



This species, not only in the hairy rhachis of the spikes but in inflorescence and- 

 general aspect remnrkably siinulates Cyperus pilosus, Yahl. 



Imperfectly knoivn species. 



56. M. microcephalus, Presl, Rel. Ecenk. i. 182. Large, with 

 long spongy leaves and bracts. Umbel compound ; spikes in dense 

 globose brown heads. Spikelets narrowly linear, terete, straight, per- 

 fecting 4-14 nuts. Glumes rather remote, obtuse. Style 3-fid. Nut 

 narrowly obovoid.— C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 624, and 

 in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 590. Cyperus dilutuis,, 

 Vahl, Enum. ii. 357 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxvi. 354 ; K. Schum. in 

 Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 122. 



XtXozamb. Sist. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro, ex Schumann. 



Also in India, Malaga, South China, and Mauritius, 



Not seen by me from Africa ; the two Mauritian examples may have been imported 

 with rice. The Kilimanjaro examples of K. Schumann have not been seen, and L 

 do not feel at all sure that they were M. microcephalus. 



57. M. foliosissimus, Steud. Syn. PL Glum. ii. 65. Roots 

 fibrou?. Stems tufted, 1 ft. long, at the top triquetrous and smooth. 

 Leaves longer than the stem, narrowly linear, many-nerved, a little 

 scabrous on the margins. Umbel simple ; rays 5-7, very shortly 

 divided at their tips into few-flowered densely-aggregated heads ; bracts 

 numerous, very long, similar to the leaves. Spikelets ovate, compressed, 

 2-4-flowered. Glumes ovate, obscurely nerved, very shortly mucronate, 

 green-brown. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal ? Lenormand (tx Sieudel), 



6. TORULINIUM, Desv. in Hamilt. Prod. Ind. Occid. 1825, 15. 



Spikelets with 4 or more nuts, the rhachilla breaking up into as many 

 joints as there are nuts ; each joint (by the aid of the wings and the^ 



