414 CLvi. CYPERACE^ (clarke). [Fimbristylis, 



Spikelets all solitary, up to J by ^^ in., densely flowered, dusky straw- 

 coloured. Glumes elliptic; nerves 3-5 on the back, uniting into a 

 strong recurved bristle. Stamens usually 2. Style small, with 2 

 branches, hairy below the bifurcation ; style-base with a ring of 

 10-18 large pendent sub- 1 -cellular hairs, white-hyaline, often reach- 

 ing nearly to the base of the nut, deciduous with the nut. Nut 

 i the length of the glume exclusive of its bristle, obovoid, biconvex. — 

 Kunth, Enum. ii. 224; Boeck. in Lincaea, xxxvii. 10; Schweinf. PI. 

 Nilot. 42 ; Coss. & Durieu, Expl. Scient. Alger. Glum. 233 ; Ridley 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 149 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. FL 

 Brit. Ind. vi. 635, in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 609, and 

 in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 200 ; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 303 ; 

 Urban, Symb. Antill. ii. 76 ; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 122, 

 F. cestivalis, Boeck. in Flora, 1879, 564, and in Engl. Gazelle Eeise, 

 Bot. 17. Scirpus squarroms, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. v. 100, not of Linn. 



TTpper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur ! Gambia, Seudelot, 561 ! Sierra. 

 Leone, Scott- Elliot, 5324 ! Niger Territory : Nupe, Barter, 1580 ! 



lO'ile Iband. British East Africa : Jur; M&^oh, Schweivfurth,lhi^\ by' the 

 River Wau, 1638 partly ! White Nile, St. Auge ! 



ZiO'wer Guinea. Lower Congo: Kisantu, (?i7/e^, 1404 ! 1428! Kinchassa, on 

 Stanley Pool, i«;a, 174 psirtly ! Lukungii, 700 ft., iTewjy, 16 ! and without precipe 

 locality, Smith ! Angola : Dande ; banks of a lake near Eonobo, Welwitsch, 6997 ! 



nSosamb. Sist. British Central Africa : near the River Zambesi, Menyharih, 

 104! 



Scattered nearly throughout the world, exclusive of North America. 



4. F. dichotoma, Vahl, Enum. ii. 287. A pubescent or puberu- 

 lous annual. Stems tufted, 2-10 in. long. Leaves as long as the stem,, 

 setaceous or linear. Umbel compound, usually with very many 

 spikelets; bracts 3-4, similar to the leaves, as long as the umbeL 

 Spikelets solitary, \ in. long, cyiindric, oblong or hardly ellipsoid ^ 

 many-flowered, ferruginous, obscurely polygonal by reason of the keeled 

 glumes. Fertile glumes in many spirals, ovate, acute, glabrous, keel 

 green or yellowish. Style flattened, dilated at the base, pubescent on 

 its margins nearly to the base ; branches 2, linear. Nut obovoid, J the 

 length of the glume, biconvex (the anticous angle being flattened), 

 white (in a few examples discoloured, perhaps in drying); superficial 

 cells oblong,, superposed in vertical series, so that the nut appears to 

 have 5-9 longitudinal ribs on each face. — Kunth, Enum. ii. 225 ;. 

 Boeck. in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 544, in Flora 1879, 564, and in 

 Linnaea, xxxvii. 12 partly; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 504; Schweinf. 

 PI. Nilot. 42, and Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 216 ; Coss. & Durieu, Expl. Scient. 

 Alger. Glum. 233 ; Daveau in Bolet. Soc. Brot. ix. 77 ; C. B. Clarke in 

 Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 635, in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. 

 v. 602, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 200; Zarb, Cat. Spec. Bot. Pfund,. 

 39 ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 124; Durand & Schinz, Etudes 

 Fl. Congo, i. 300. F. squarrosa, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 503 (cf. 



