Fimbristt/lis.] clvi. cyperace^ (clarke). 425 



Boeck. in Linnaia, xxxvii. 54, A. lanceolata, Schumach. Beskr. Guin. 

 PI. 88. 



Upper Guinea. Guinea, Thonning, 348 I 



IMCozamb. Sist. Zanzibar, Boivin ! Kuntze, 207! German East Africa: 

 Matia Island, i^ere / Zanguebar, iT/r^ / U^ambara; Uoda, i^oZ^^, 2934 ! Kovuma 

 Buy, Kirk! Kovumu Kiver, Kirk! Portuguese East Africa: Zambesi Delia; 

 Kongoni River, Kirk ! 



Also in South India and Ceylon, 



F. monoslachya, Hassk., is usually much slenderer (and with smaller spikelets) 

 tlian the present plant ; but large examples of F. monostachya 1 can only dis- 

 tinguish by tlie pale nut. 



24. F. africana, Durand (£• Schinz^ Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 601. 

 Thinly hairy, nearly all over. Stems 12-20 in. long. Leaves \-\ the 

 length of the stem, \-\ in. broad. Spikelets 3-10 on each stem, capitate, 

 I in. long, brown ; bracts 2-8, short (up to 2J in. long occasionally), 

 setaceous, at the base often ciliate- woolly. Glumes ovate, boat-shaped, 

 submucronate, lower subdistichous, upper spiral. Style long, woolly, not 

 separating from the subcuboid style- base ; branches 3, linear. Nut J 

 the length of the glume, obovoid, much narrowed at the base, obtusely 

 trigonous, transversely wavy or wrinkled, straw-coloured or brownish. 

 —F. pilosa, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 124, not of Vabl. 

 Schmnus pilosiis, WiM. Phyt. i. 8, t. 1, fig. 8; Vahl, Enum. ii. 208; 

 Schumach.Beskr.Guin.pl. 29. Abildgaardia pilosa, l^ees in Linnsea, 

 ix. 289 ; Kunth, Enum. ii. 248 ; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 554 ; Boeck. 

 in Linnsea, xxxvii. 52: T. Thorns, in Speke, Nile, Append. 654 ; Oliver 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 169, t. 109, fig. B, and ser. 2, Bot. ii. 858. 



Upper Guinea. Guinea, Thonning ! Hart ! Gold Coast : Afrera Plains, 

 Johmon, 726 ! Accra, Don ! Dahomey, Newton, 5 ! 31 ! 32 ! Lagos : Lagos 

 Government, 37 1 Niger Territory : Niger River, Vogel ! Nupc, Barter, 491 ! 

 Onitsa, Barter, 1762 ! 



KTlle Iiand. British East Africa : Kilimanjaro Expedition, 40-60 miles from 

 tlie coa-t, Johnston ! Mombasa, Boivin ! Taylor ! 



nXozamb. Blst. Zanzibar, Taylor! German East Africa : Usambara ; Muoa, 

 Hoist, 3051 ! Uiiyamwezi; near Kaseli (Tabora), Speke ^ Grant ! Gonda, Boehm, 

 170! British Central Africn : Nyasaland; Manganja W\\\&, Meller ! Waller! 

 Kischsond! Shire Highlands, ^?<cy^a»a», 57 ! Scott- ?:iliot, 84581 Mount Malosa, 

 4000-6000 ft., TFhyte ! Zomba Plains, 2500-3000 ft., Whyte ! 



Imperfectly known species. 



25. P. falcifolia, Boeck. in Linncea, xxxvii. 25. Pale green, 

 glabrous. Boots fibrous, very slender. Stems several, tufted, setaceous, 

 6-4 in. long, obsoletely 5-angular, slightly compressed, furrowed, 

 smooth. Leaves few, 8-2 in. long, falcate (dry and tiexuose), somewhat 

 rigid, linear, half a line wide, narrowed towards the top, acute, flattish, 

 minutely punctate, margins slenderly serrulate ; sheaths short, margined 

 by a hyaline membrane, obliquely truncate at the mouth. CJmbel 

 *^ half -compound," 5-7 -rayed ; bracts 8-4, lower narrow-linear, scarcely 



