Fimbristylis.'] clvi. cyperace.e (olarke). 417 



7. P, ferrugiixea, Vahl, Kmim. ii. 291. Flowering the first year, 

 as in most other sp^^cies of Fimbristylis , but frequently biennial, and 

 perhaps perennial. Stems densely tufted, 8-28 in. long ; roots wiry, 

 fibrous. Leaves usually short or hardly any, sometimes ^ the length 

 of the stem, hairy or glabrous. Umbel of 5-10 (rarely of 20) spikelets, 

 simple or slightly compound ; bracts shorter, usually much shorter, 

 than the umbel. Spikelets solitary, J by ^ in., ovoid-oblong, densely 

 flowered, ferruginous, more or less variegated by chestnut-brown or 

 green. Glumes ovate, in the upper half of their back grey puberulous. 

 Style longer than the nut, flattened, villous on the margins, base 

 dilated ; branches 2, linear-lanceolate. Nut nearly ^ the length of the 

 glume, obovoid, biconvex, smooth, pale yellow becoming brown ; super- 

 ficial cells subquadrate. — Delile, Fl. Egypte, 10, t. 6, fig, 3 ; Kunth, 

 Enum. ii. 2:^6; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 554; Boeck. in Peters, 

 Reise Mozarab. Bot. 544, in Linnaea, xxxvii. IG, in Flora, 1879, 564, 

 and in Engl. Gazelle Reise, Bot. 17 ; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop.210 ; 

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

 f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. G38, in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 600, 

 in Bull, Herb. Boiss. iv. Append, iii. 31, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 201 ; 

 Sehweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. Append, ii. 51 ; K. Schum. in Engl. 

 Pfl, Ost-Afr. C. 124; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 302. 

 Urban, Symb. Antill. ii. 78; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw; ii. 122, 

 incl. var. yraminea. F. lomentocarpa, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. 

 Abyss, ii. 504. Scirpvs ferrugirieus, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. ii. 74. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Brunner^ 90! 150! Senefral, Perrottei y 

 835 ! Leprienr I Heiidelot, 449 ! 452 ! Gambia, Don I Cape Vcrd Isles,. 

 Ferrottet ! Lowe ! St. Hilaire ! Bolle ! Ijiberia : Grand Bassa, for/el, 55 ! 

 Niger Territory : Oware, Beauvois / Nun Kivt-r, J'ogel, 36 ! Mann, 531 ! 



Wile Iiand. Soudan, Oudney, 4 ! Gallabat, Schweinfurth, 2035 ! 2037 ! 

 Abyssinia, Schimper, 532 ! 1317 ! Britisli K:ist Africa : Jur ; Jur Ghattas.. 

 Schwehifarth, 2121 ! 



Ziower Guinea. Island of St, Thomas, Rattray I Lower Conoco, Kisantu,. 

 Gillet, 1585! 1598 ! and nitlioit pi*ecise locality, Smith / Angola: St James Island, 

 Welwitsch, 7105 ! Mossamedes ; in dried up lakes by tlio Kiver Caroca, Welwitsch, 

 6970 ! 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State : Dupnis I 



XUCozamb. :Dlst> Zanzibar, Boivin ! Tat/lor! German East Africa: 

 Usambar.i ; Tanga, Hoist, 2122 \ Mnoa, Hoist, 3050! Portuguese East Africa:. 

 Mozambique, Peters, 8 ! Kuntze, 203 ! British Central Africa : Boruma, ^on the 

 Zambesi, Menyharlli, 1056 I 



In tropical and warm tem})erate countries nearly throughout the world ; 

 specially abundant near the sea. 



8. P. longiculmis, Steud Syn. PI. Glum. ii. 110. Stems o-4 ft. 

 long, robust. Umbel compound, of 15-20 spikelets. Spikelets solitary, 

 1^ by V in., cylindric, rigid, much variegated with chestnut-colour. 

 Glumes glabrous on the back, som'etimes very minutely hairy on the 

 margin ; otherwise as F.ferrnginea. — C. B. Olarke in Durand it Schinz, 

 Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 007 ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pf3. Ost-Afr. C. 124. 

 F. sansiharens'is, Boeck. in Flora, 1S80, 437. 



SSTile Iband. British East Africa : Momba-a, TauJor '. 



