424 CLvi. CYPEKACE.E (clarke). \Fimhri8tylis. 



together with the pyramidal sstyle-base ; branches 3. Nut -| the length 

 of the glume, obovoid, trigonous, transversely wavy, yellow-brown. — . 

 F. purpureo-utra^ Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 149 ; Durand & 

 Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 601). F. exilis, Durand & Schinz, Conspect. 

 Fl. Afr. V. 6U4 partly. Scirpus purpureo-ate7\ Boeck. in Linnsea, 

 xxxviii. 379. 



XTile X^and. Abyssinia : near Jomara, Schimper, 1268 ! Begemeder, Schimper 

 1251! 



Also in Socotra. 



This may be a depauperated state of F. exilis, as see I. B, Balfour in Trans. Roy. 

 Soc. Ellin, xxxi, 307. It differs mainly by the absence of the needle-like white hairs, 

 4ibuiidant in F. exilis. 



22. P. monostachya, ZTass^. PI. Jav.Ear. 61. Glabrous. Stems 

 tufted, 2-1 G in. long, slender. Leaves \ the length of the stem, yV'TU" 

 in. broad. Spik6let on each stem 1 (rarely 2-3), \ by \ in. and few- 

 tlowered, or larger (in fruit up to 1 in. long) and many-flowered, 

 greenish-white or yellowish. Glumes ovate, mucronate, much keeled, 

 lower distichous, upper spiral. Style longer than ihe nut, hairy, 

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

 rather large, less than \ the length of the glume, trigonous, pyriform- 

 obovoid, straw-coloured or pale brown, more or less tubercled. — Ridley 

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

 Brit. Ind. vi. 649, in Durand k, Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 607, and 

 in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 203 ; K, Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 124; 

 Durand k Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 302 ; "Urban, Symb. Antill. ii. 

 83; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 122. Cyperus monostachyos, 

 Linn. Mant. 180; Rottb. Descr. et Ic. 18, t. 13, fig. 3. Ahildgmirdia 

 ^monostachya, Yahl, Enum. ii. 296 ; Kunth, Enum. ii. 247 ; Benth. in 

 Hook. Niger Fl. 554 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxvii. 53 ; T. Thoms. in 

 Speke, Nile, Append. 654; Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 169, t. 

 109, fig. A (which does not show well the much-contracted base of the 

 nut). 



Xrile Xiand. British E;ist Africa : Niamniam ; Nganye, Schiceivfurth, ZQQ2\ 

 Unyoro, Speke Sf Grant ! Ruwenzori, 6000 ft., Scott-Eliiot, 6808 ! Mount Kenia, 

 Gregory, 87 ! Ukaniba, 4000 ft., Scolt-Flliot, 2355 ! Mombasa, Taylor I 



Kower Cruinea. Island of St. Thomas, Don! Angola: Huilla; between 

 Monino and Eme, Welwitsch , 6839 ! 



llfXozaxab. Sist. Zanzibar, Boivin ! 



In nearly all tropical and warm-lemperate areas. 



23. P. tristachya, Thwaites, Enum. PI. Zeyl. 434, not of R. Br. 

 'iwr of Nees. Stems 16-28 in. long, with 2-5 (rarely 1) distinct spikelets 

 usually nearly 1 in. long. Nut large, finally black ; otherwise as 

 F. monostachya. — C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 649, and in 

 Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 610. F. triflora^ K. Schum. in 

 Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 124. Cyperus triflorus, Linn. Mant. 180. 

 Ahildyaardia tristachya,YdA\\^ Enum. ii. 297; Kunth, Enum. ii. 248; 



