Eleocharis.'\ CLVi. cyperace^ (clarke). 40I> 



retrorse-scabrous, pallid, or fewer or reduced or nearly wanl.ing. 

 Stamens 3-2. Style-branches :>. Nut obovoid, with ?) angles, truncate at 

 the top, white, conspicuously and coarsely cancellate by subquadrangular 

 reticulations on the faces; style-base nearly as broad as the nut, 

 pyramidal, dusky black. — Kunth, Enum. ii. 140; C. B. Clarke in 

 Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. (121), and in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 

 Afr. V. 597; Urban, Symb. Antill. ii. 08; Rendle in Cat. Afr. 

 PI. Welw. ii. 121. E. setacea, R. Br. Prodr. 224: in note, not the 

 homonymous sp. 225. Cyperus setaceus, Retz. Obs. v. 10. Scirpus 

 chcvtarius^ Spreng. Syst. i. 20o. Ileleocharis chcvtaria, Boeck-. in 

 Linna3a, xxxvi. 428, and in Flora, 1870, biVI \ Ridley in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 148; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 149. 



arile Iiand. Britisli East Africa : Jur; .Tur Ghattas, Schioeinfurth, 2583 ! 



l^ower Cruinea. Lower Congo : Kisantu, Gillet, 1137 ! 1138 ! 1370 ! Angola : 

 Huilla ; on the lofty pastures of Morro du Monino, Welwitsch, 6964; ! 



Also in India, Malaya and Tropical America. 



8. E. Trilophus, C. B. Clarke in Durand d- Schinz, Conspect, Fl. 

 Afr. V. 601. A glabrous annual. Stems 1-8 in. long, tufted, very 

 slender. Spikelet 1 , ^^ in. long, ovoid or subcylindric, a rich brown,, 

 loosely 4-7-flowered. Lower nut-bearing glumes in 2-3 spirals, ovate^ 

 obtuse. Hypogynous bristles 8-5, | the length of the nut, pallid^ 

 ret rorse- scab rid. Style-branches 3. Nut J the length of the glume,, 

 oblong- obovoid, smooth, with 8 strong ribs at the angles, white, very 

 truncate, the 3 angles subexcurrent in points on the shoulders ; style- 

 base depressed pyramidal. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Eoger, 113 ! Perroitet ! 



9. E. Hildebrandtii, C. B. Clarke in Durand d- Schinz, Con- 

 sped. FL Afr. v. 598. A glabrous annual. Stems 2-4 in. long, 

 tufted, slender. Spikelet J in. long, cylindric, green marked with dull 

 red. Nut-bearing glumes in many spirals, ovate, obtuse. Hypogynous 

 bristles 0. Style-branches 8. Nut | the length of the glume, obovoid, 

 much narrowed at the top, trigonous, smooth, white ; style-base small, 

 bulbous, not | the width of the nut. — HeleochaHs Ilildebraiidtii, Boeck. 

 in Flora, 1878, 84 ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 124. 



IkXosamb. Dlst. Zanzibar, Kirk ! Eildehrandt, 1063 ! 



10. E. complanata, C. B. Clarke in Durand <£• Schinz,. 

 Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 598. Stems 6—9 in. long, rather stouter than in E. 

 Hildebrandtiif flattened rather than quadrangular ; heads rather 

 larger ; otherwise as E. Hildehrandtii. — Heleocharis complanata, Boeck. 

 in Flora, 1879, 562. 



Upper Guinea. Niger Territory : Nupe, in rice fields, Barter, 1574 ! 

 Wile Xiand. Bongo : Gir, Schweinfarth, 2576 ! 



The nut is identical with that of 'E. Hild ebrandtii, and tlie plant may be only a 

 large state of that species. 



