Btdbostylis.'\ clvi. cyperace.e (clarke). 4o;> 



y. B. filamentosa, Kanth, Enum. ii. 210, cf. 205. Rhizome 

 hardly any. fSteins densely tufted, 8-20 in. long, slender, at the top 

 trigonous, hairy. Leaves § the length of the stem, setaceous ; sheatlis 

 hairy, with long white hairs in the throat, often torn. Head 1, J-t-in. 

 in diam., of 6 14 spikelets, chestnut-brown; bracts 3-2, setaceous, 

 lowest often overtopping the head. Spikelets^ by j\,-in., 6-10-flowered. 

 Glumes boat-shaped, ovate, minutely apiculate, pubescent but with no 

 long white hair. Stamens o ; anthers linear, with a minute terminal 

 bristle. Style ^J-fid. Nut t the length of the glume, acutely trigonous, 

 obovoid, truncate, pallid, with obscure transverse lines ; style-base 

 persistent, ovoi.l, larger than usual, hardly darker than the nut. — 

 C. B. Clarke in Durand it Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 613, and in 

 Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 20G ; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo i. 30(1 ; 

 Ourand &: De Wild, in Comptes-rendus Soc, Bot. Belg. xxxvi. 81) ; 

 -Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 124. Scirpus JUamentomis, Vahl. 

 Enum. ii. '2i!)'2 ; Schumach. Beskr. Guin. PI. 30 ; Boeck. in Linnaea, 

 xxxvi. 747 (exc!. the American plants and synon.), and in Flora, 1879, 

 -563, IsolepUfilamentosa, E,oem.& Schultes, Syst. Veg. ii. 113 ; Benth.in 

 Hook. Niger Fi. 553. Fimhristijlis filamentosa^l^. Schum. in Engl. Pi.. 

 Ost-Afr. C. 125. F. collina, Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. 

 Bot. ii. 154. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone? Kabusa, Scotl-Elliot, 5467 1 and wiilioi.t 

 ])rocise loc.ility, Afzelias! Niger Territory : Xupe, Barter, 1577! 



Wile Xiand. Upper Sennar : Fazokl, Figari ! British East Africa : Jur ; Jur 



Ghattas, Schiveinfurth, 1995 ! 



X>ower Guinea. Lower Congo: Lutete, 1500-2000 ft., Hens, A, 238! 

 Stanley Pool, Demew^e / Kimuenzii, Gi7Ze/^, 1644 ! 1703! 1770! and without pre- 

 cise locality, Smith, 308! Angola: Pungo Andongo; higher pastures of the 

 Praesidium, JFelwifsck, 7151 ! mountainous places east of Quilombo Quiacatubia, 

 2200 fc, Welioitsch, 7004 ! Queta Mountains, Welwitsch, 7004b ! 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State: Monbuttu; by the River Welle, 

 JSchwei}ifi(rth, 3516 ! Nlempu, Butaye ! 



IVIozamb. I>ist. Britisli Central Africa : Nyasaland; Plains of Zo.nba, 2500- 



45000 ft., Whyte ! 



Also iii the Transvaal. 



Var. ? harhata, C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 614. 

 Stem minutely hairy at the top. Head of about 4 spikelets, larger than tliose 

 of typ-.cal C. filamentosa, Kunth. Glumes with some long white hairs on tlie 

 margins. Nut with transverse wavy lines. — AbildgaardLa barbata. Beau v. Fl. 

 Owar. ii. 47, t. 86, fig. 1 ; Kunth, Enum. ii. 250. Cyperus barbatus, Poir. Enoycl. 

 Suppl. V. 186. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius, 583 ! Niger Territory : Oware, 

 Beauvois 1 



'i'his is very doubtfully placed with B. filamentosa ; m everything, except the 

 nut (which has its outermost ceils longitudinally oblong), it rauch more re.'-enibles 

 B. collina. 



10. B. lanicepSy C. B. Clarice in Durand ct- Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 

 Afr. V. 614. Rhizome hardly any. Stems densely tufted, 8-10 in. long, 



