430 CLVi. CYPERACELE (clarke). [Bulbostylis. 



flattened on the anterior face, biconvex, pale brown, minutely striate 

 lengthwise. — C. B. Clarke in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 205. Isolepis humillima, 

 Hochst. ex C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect, Fl. Afr. v. G16. 



xrile Xtand. Abyssinia : Memsa (Memsach ?), Quartin- Dillon ; and without 

 precise locality, Schimpery 355 ! 



Also in South Africa. 



2. B. festucoidesy Kunth, Enum,. ii. 207, cf. 205. A tufted 

 annual. Stem 2-8 in. long, striate, glabrous or minutely hairy, with 

 •one spikelet. Leaves J the length of the stem, setaceous, glabrous or 

 minutely hairy; sheaths hairy, with long white hairs in the mouth. 

 Spikelet | by Jg^ in., brown ; bract suberect, .shorter or longer than the 

 spikelet. Glumes in many spirals, ovate, acuminate, submucronate, 

 nearly glabrous ; keel green, sub-3-nerved. Style rather shorter than 

 the nut; branches 3, long. Nut J-J the length of the glume; 

 obovoid, trigonous, pallid, transversely wavy ; style-base persistent as 

 a button on the nut, red-brown. — C. B. Clarke in Darand & Schinz, 

 Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 613. Scirpus festucoides, Poir. in Lam. Encycl. 

 vi. 752 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxvi. 743. Isolepis festucoides^ Steud. 

 Syn. PL Glum, ii, 100. 



Upper Guinea. French Guinea : Sulimania ; Erimakuna, Scott-Elliot, 

 .5244 ! 



Frequent in the Mascarene Islands. 



Scott-Elliot's plant has a smaller spikelet, but larger more wavy nut than the 

 Mascarene material, 



3. B, zambesica, C. B. Clarke in Durand S Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 

 Afr. V.616. Tufts very dense, hard with wiry roots. Stem 4-6 in. long, 

 setaceous, minutely scabrous hairy, with one spikelet. Leaves \ the length 

 of the stem, capillary, scabrous hairy ; sheaths with white hairs in the 

 mouth. Spikelet J by J in., oblong-ellipsoid, obtuse, dusky brown. Lowest 

 glume mucronate, but little longer "than the fertile glumes ; glumes 

 ovate, at the tip triangular and subobtuse, hairy ; keel green, 3-nerved. 

 Style as long as the nut ; branches 3, long. Nut less than \ the 

 length of the glume, obovoid, trigonous, pallid, smooth ; persistent style- 

 base dark-red. — Fimbristylis sambesica, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost- 

 Afr. C. 125. 



BCozamb. 3)ist. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Mount Sochi, 3000 ft.. 

 Kirk ! Kampala, Scott-Elliot, 8464 ! between Blantyre and Matope, Scott ! 



4. B. spharocarpus, C. B. Clarke in Durand ofr Schinz, Conspect. 

 Fl. Afr. V. 616. A tufted annual. Stem 2-5 in. long, glabrous, with 

 one spikelet. Leaves J the length of the stem, capillary, most minutely 

 hairy ; sheaths obscurely bearded in the mouth. Spikelet J by y\ in.^ 

 tiearing a few nuts at the base, lanceolate and male above ; bract ^ in. 

 long, setaceous ; basal (i.e. stemless) spikelets are often added. Fertile 

 glumes ovate, acuminate, rust-coloured, scabrous-hairy. Style nearly 

 as long as nut ; branches 3. Nut less than J the length of the glume, 

 obovoid, trigonous, smooth, straw-coloured, transversely wavy; style- 



