JSleocharis.] clvi. CYPERACEiE (clarke). 411 



JZ, palustriSj Boeck. in Linnaea, xxxvi. 466 partly, i.e. the African 

 examples with 3-fid style ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 149 partly ; 

 Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. Append ii. 104. 



irile Xiand. Abyssinia: Tigre ; marshes near Adowa, <ScAim/)er, 915 ! Shireli 

 Province, Quartin- Dillon ! Samen ; Enjedcap, Schimper, 1331 ! Begemeder ; 

 Degai Meda, Sckimper, 1213 ! and without precise locality, Schimper, 828 ! British 

 East Africa : marshes in Mau district, 8000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6931 ! foot of Mount 

 Jvenia at Ndoro, Gregory 78! River Harrington, Gregory, 53 ! 



Imperfectly known species. 



15 E. naumanniana, Boeck. in Engl. Jahrh. v. 92. A very 

 slender fia.ccid olive-coloured water-plant, proliferously branched, 1^ fl. 

 long. Stems copious and numerous, branches nearly capillary, clustered, 

 terete or somewhat compressed, with septate nodes, often sterile ; 

 sheaths of the branches slender, membranous, narrow, yellow, perfectly 

 glabrous in the mouth. Spikelet often proliferous from the base, 

 very slender in flower, narrowly acuminate, linear, about J in. long, 

 1 -flowered. Glumes 2, erect, scarcely unequal, thin membranous, 

 sheathing, acuminate linear, 1 -nerved, white ferruginous lineolate. 

 Hypogynous bristles 0. Nut small, hardly more than J the length 

 of the glume, broadly oval, narrowed at the base, triangular, angles 

 somewhat obtuse sticking out, faces convex tessellated, brown, crowned 

 by the persistent conical style-base constricted aboTe the nut. — Boeck. 

 in Engl. Gazelle Reise, Bot. 16. 



Upper Guinea. Liberia : Monrovia, Naumann (ex BoecJceler). 



In spite of the absence of hypogynous bristles and the style-base constricted 

 above the nut, this plant would appear from the obvious characters nearly allied to 

 Scipus submersus, Sauv. cf. 0. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 653. 



9. FIMBRISTYLIS, Yahl; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 1048, 

 excluding sect. Oticostylis. 



Spikelets of many perfect flowers, imperfect at the top, two lowest 

 glumes empty. Fertile glumes in 3 or more spirals ; or (Sect. Ahild- 

 gaardia) the lower distichous. Hypogynous bristles 0. Stamens 3-1, 

 anterior ; anthers linear- oblong, muticous. Style 2-fid or i>-tid, some- 

 times villous, sometimes glabrous ; style-base enlarged, distinct from 

 the nut by a constriction or a line, continuous with and caducous with 

 the style, not discoloured. Nut trigonous or biconvex, according as the 

 style-branches are 3 or 2. — Glabrous or hairy. Rhizome 0, or not J in. 

 long. Leaves generally present, sometimes 0. Inflorescence a terminal 

 umbel, simple, compound or congested, or a single terminal spikelet. 



Species 125, in nearly all hot and war .n-tempe rate areas, especially plentiful in 

 South-east Asia and North-east Australia. 



'•^Eleochaeoides. — Stem with 1 spikelet only, or with 

 S by a rare accident ; lower fertile glumes in many spirals, 

 aiot subdistichous. Style 2-fid 1. F.polytrichoides, 



