422 CLVi. CYPERA-CEiE (clarke). [^Fimhristylls . 



with its small style-base ; branches 3. Nut hardly J the length of the 

 glume, obovoid, white or yellowish, smooth or verrucose, but hardly 

 transversely trabeculate. — K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 124; 

 C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 610. 



irile Ziand. British East Africa: Gazelle River, Schweinfurfh, 1144! 1155! 

 1236 ! 



Examples of F. miliacea and F. quinquangutaris occur with vei*y short leaves; 

 the present plant differs from botlj by the outer cells of the nut being very shorily 

 elliptic (almost round) so that the nut does not appear marked by series of 

 bars. 



18. P. scabrida, Schumach. Beshr. Guin, PL 32. Glabrous or 

 very nearly so. Stems 12-16 in. long, tufted, thickened at the base by 

 the black torn leaf-sheaths, at the top obscurely compressed, sometimes 

 scabrous, sometimes quite smooth. Leaves J the length of the stem, 

 up to \-\ in. broad: Umbel simple, 2-6 in. in diam., with 12-40 

 spikelets ; bracts 3-4, short, sometimes up to 1-1 J in. long. Spikelets 

 J by J in., ellipsoid, 4-12-flowered, pale chestnut-marked. Glumes 

 ovate, acute, mucronate. Style nearly as long as the nut, glabrous, 

 deciduous with the narrow-pyramidal base ; branches 3 (or 2 occasionally 

 seen in the upper part of the spikelet). Nut less than J the length of 

 the glume, obovoid, straw-yellow, verrucose, not (or obscurely) trans- 

 versely barred. — C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. 

 V. 609 ; Durand k Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 303. F. Barteri and 

 F. mucronata, Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxvii. 33, 41. 



Vpper Cruluea. Upper Senegal, Lecard, 120! Guinea, Thonning ! Lagos: 

 Wasirai Road, Lagos Government 50 ! Niger Territory : Nupe, Barter, 1578 ! 

 1582! 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State : Monbuttu ; at the River Welle, Schioein^ 

 fiii'tk, 3bl7 I 



19. F. complanata, Lhik, Hort. Berol. i. 292. Glabrous. Stems 

 8-24 in. long, at the top quadrangular and much flattened, i.e. usually 

 with 2 sharp edges and a rib on each of the flat faces. Leaves usually 

 3-8 in. long, \-\ in. broad, suddenly narrowed at the tip. Umbel up 

 to 4-5 in. in diam., with 180 spikelets, commonly with 30-70 spikelets, 

 also small examples with 12-30 spikelets are not rare; bracts 2, sub- 

 erect, usually 1-2 in. long, similar to the leaves and similarly suddenly 

 narrowed at the top. Spikelets \ by -^^ in., brown or chestnut-coloured. 

 Glumes ovate, obtuse or acute. Style as long as the nut, glabrous, 

 deciduous together with the pyramidal style-base ; branches 3. Nut 



very small, hardly \ the length of the glume, obovoid, straw-coloured ; 



outermost cells short-elliptic and transverse, but the nut hardly striated 



or transversely barred. — Kunth, Enum. ii. 228 ; A. Kich. Tent. Fl. 



Abyss, ii. 505 ; Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 150; C. B.. 



Clarke in Hook, f . Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 646, in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. 



Fl. Afr. V. 602, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 202 ; K. Schum. in Engl. 



Pfl. Ost-Afr. V. 124; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 300; 



Urban, Symb. Antill. ii. 81 ; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 123. 



