Mmbristi/lis.] clvi. CYPERACEiE (clarke). 419 



831 ! 832 I 836 ! Upper Senegal, Lecard^ 92 ! 105 ! Senegambia : Galam, 

 Hewdelot, 330! 388! Cape Verd, St. Hilaire I Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Scott- 

 Elliot, 6181! Liberia; Grand Bassa, Ansell ! PandiaW, Ansell ! Dahomey; 

 Newton, 6 ! 33 I Bornu, Vogel, 22 I Lagos, Millen, 105 1 Niger Territory : 

 Nape, Baikie I Barter, 1576 ! Lokaja district, Richardson, 5 I Lower Niger ; 

 Aboh, Barter, 356! Attah, Vogel, 91! Cameroons : Cameroon Kiver, Mann, 

 778 ! Batanga, Bates, 105 ! Yaunde, Zenker ^ Staudt, 554 ! Zenker, 1504 ! 



Ulle Ziand. Kordofan, Pfhnd, 28 ! 638 ! KotscJiy, 15 ! Darf ur, P/M/*d, 

 '605 ! 639 ! Galabat, Schweinfurth, 2030 I 2031 ! 2032 ! Abyssinia, Schimper, 

 232 I 363 1 846 partly I 1318 ! 1590 ! 2165 ! Hildebrandt, 356 ! Quartin- 

 Dillon, 125 ! Soraaliland, Mrs. Lort-Phillips ! Nile Sources, Sabatier .' British 

 East Africa : Kitch ; Ador, Petherick ! Jur ; Jur GhattHS, Schweinfurth, 2122 ! 

 Huwenzori, Scott-Elliot, 7624 ! Uganda, Scott-Elliot, 7388 ! Mount Kenia, 

 Gregory, 87 ! Ukamba, Hildebrandt, 2655 pnrtly I Machakos, Scott-EUiot, 

 SS83 1 Ongalea Mountains, Gregory, 14 ! Tana, Gregory, 97 ! Mombasa, 

 Boivin 1 Hildebrandt, 2023 ! 



Ibo'wer Guinea. Lower Congo, Smith ! Hens, 13 ! Kisantq, Gillet, 588 ! 

 Angola ; Welwitsch, 6826 ! 6984 ! 7012b ! 7152 ! 7161 ! Loanda, Welwitsch, 6983 ! 

 6985 ! 6986 ! 6996 ! 6998b ! and 6998c ! Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch, 6822 ! 

 6823! 6831! 6833! 6998! Huilla, TTelwitsch, 694Q \ 6953! 6954! 6956! 

 6957 ! Ambriz, Welwitsch, 7001 ! Amboland ; Schinz, 372 ! 



ncozamb. Dlst. Zanzibar, Hildebrandt, 1059 ! 1200 ! 7059 ! German 

 East Africa: Usambara ; Tanga, HoUt, 2006! 2080! Amboni, Hoist, 2743! 

 Unyamwezi ; Mininga, Speke Sf Grant, 166 ! Portuguese East Africa : Mozam- 

 l)ique, Peters ! Kirk-wn ! Kongoni River, Kirk ! Lower Zambesi, between 

 Lupata and Tete, Kirk I Shupanga, Kirk! British Central Africa: Boruma, 

 Menyharth, 555a partly! 555b! 660! 664! Nyasaland; Shire Highlands, 

 Scott-Elliot, 8573 ! Buchanan, 43 ! and without precise locality, Buchinan, 

 482! 1194! Ngamiland ; between Koobie (Kobis) and North Shaw Valley, 

 Baines J Kwebe, Lugard, 164 ! 



Also common in South Africa and the Mascarene Islands. Rare in Tropical 

 America. 



This is one of the commonest Cyperaceae of Tropical Africa ; and varies greatly 

 in size, development, hairiness, and colour of glumes. The ordinary hairy form 

 is also frequently put with various species of Bulbostylis. The present (and 2 

 following) species, while approaching Bulbostylis in habit, sl)ovv no approach to the 

 style- base of Bulbostylis. 



Var. oligostachya, C. B. Clarke. Small and weak, hairy or glabrate. Stems 1 -4 in. 

 1 ing, bearing 1 or 2 spikelets only. Nut obovoid, subsessile, hardly ^ the size of the 

 nut of typical F. exilis ; style deciduous, carrying the style-base with it, so that no 

 discoloured button is left behind on the nut. 



xrile ]band. Abyssinia: Adowa, Schimper, 299 partly! Somaliland; 

 Abdallah, Keller, 83 ! 89 ! Thuja Steppe, Keller, 86 ! Ogaden Steppe, Keller, 91 ! 

 Warandab, Keller, 96 ! 



11. P. H3nsiiy C. B. Clarke. Nut rather small, pallid, smooth, 

 not transversely wavy ; otherwise as F. exilis. — F. exilis, var. levimtx, 

 0. B. Clarke in Darand k Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 605 ; Dnrand 

 & Schinz, Etudes Fi. Congo, i. 302. 



JaO'weT Oulnea. Loango ; Soyaux, 151! Lower Congo: Stanley Pool and 

 Xutete, Hens; 62 ! 67 ! 74 ! 75 ! 239 '. Demeuse ! 



Sontti Central. Congo Free State : Bolongo Catai-acts, Luja, 134 ! 



