Fimhri8tylis,'\ clvi. CYPERACEiS (clarke). 415 



Boeck. in Flora, 18G0, 35), not of Yahl. Scirpus dichotcmius, Linn. Sp, 

 F\. ed. ii. 74; Rottb. Descr. et Ic. 57, t. 13, fig. 1. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perrottet, 834 ! Lecard, 23 ! Niger Territory : 

 Nupe ; banks of the River Niger, Barter, 1209 ! Bornu, Oudney, 6 ! 



KTlle Iiand. Nubia, Letourneux, 309 A! Seiinar, Hartmann ! Dongola, 

 Ffund, 617 ! Tuti Island, near Khartoom, Schweinfurth, 848 ! Kotschy, 328 ! 

 (Jalabat : region of Matamma, Schweinfurth, 2042 ! Abyssinia : Sabra, Schimperr 

 533 ! River Tacazze, Schimper^ 691 ! 1577 ! and without precise locality, Schimper, 

 267 in Herb. Paris / British East Africa : White Nile, Schweinfurth, 917 1 

 Ukamba ; banks of the River Adi, Hildebrandt, 2624 ! 



Ziower Guinea. Lower Congo ; Stanley Pool, Demeuse ! Kimuenza, Gillet^ 

 1906! 



IMEozamb. Slst. Portuguese East Afriqa : Mozambique, Peters, 8 ! Lower 

 Zambesi; Shigogo, Kirk! Expedition Island, Kirk! British Central Africa: 

 Zambesi Valley, near Boruraa, Menyharth, 1065 ! Nyasaland ; near Nsessi River, 

 Scott ! near Karonga, Scott ! 



Throughout the hot and warm temperate regions of the Old World and 

 Australia. 



5. F. diphylla, Vahl, Enum. ii. 289. k. pubescent, puberulous or 

 glabrous annual. Stems tufted, 4-28 in. long. Leaves i-| the length 

 of the stem, linear or rarely ^-\ in. broad. Umbel compound, of many 

 (sometimes of few) spikelets ; bracts 3-4, similar to the leaves, shorter 

 or longer than the umbel. Spikelets solitary, \-^ in. long, ellipsoid- 

 lanceolate, many-flowered, straw-coloured, ferruginous, brown or much 

 variegated with chestnut, terete. Fertile glumes concave, hardly keeled, 

 acute, often minutely ciliate on the margins. Style longish, dilated at 

 the base, flattened, villous on the margins; branches 2, linear. Nut 

 obovoid, J the length of the glume, biconvex, white or somewhat 

 yellowish, with 5-13 longitudinal ribs on each face — C. B. Clarke in 

 Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 636, in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. 

 v. 603, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 200; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost- 

 Afr. C. 124 ; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 301 ; Urban, 

 Symb. Antill. ii. 77; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. ii. 122. 

 F. laxa, Yahl, Enum. ii. 202 ; Kunth, Enum. ii. 232. F. communis, 

 Kunth, Enum. ii. 234 mainly ; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 554 ; Ridley 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 150 partly. F.fuscaia, Steud. Syn. 

 PI. Glum. ii. 112. F. debilis, Steud. I.e. 109. F. tertia, Steud. ex 

 Jardin in Mem. Soc. Sc. Nat. Cherb. v. (1857) 299. F. polymorpha, 

 Boeck. in Vidensk. Meddel. Kjob. 1869, 141, 158, in Linnaea, xxxvii. 

 14 (excl. some synonyms), in Flora, 1879, 564, and in Engl. Gazelle 

 Reise, Bot. 17 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl, Trop. Afr. 149. F. squamidosay 

 Hochst. ex Boeck. in Linnaea, xxxvii. 15. Scirpus diphyllus, Retz. 

 Obs. V. 15. jS. annuvs, Allioni, Fl. Pedem. ii. 277, t. 88, fig. 5; 

 Desfont. Fl. Atlant. i. 51. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot ! Leprieur ! Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! 

 Morson! Barter! Mann, 892! Scoti-Mliot^ 3917! 5157! Welwifsch, 6991! 

 French Guinea : Parana, Scott-Mliot, 5355 ! Upper Volta, at Salaga, Krause ! 

 Niger Territory: Aboh, Barter, 131! Nupe, ^ar^er, 1581 ! River Nun, Mann, 

 1888 ! Old Calabar ; Rohb ! Ogurude, Holland, 275 ! Cameroons : Sanega, Zenker, 

 1438 ! Fernando Po, Vogel, 12 ! 



