434 CLVi. CYPERACE^ (clarke). [Bulbostylis. 



slender, at the top glabrous or nearly so. Leaves ^ the length of the 

 stem, setaceous ; sheaths nearly glabrous, scarcely ciliate in the throat. 

 Head 1, :| in. in diam., globose, dense, of 20 spikelets, with some long 

 white hairs arising both from the margins of the glumes and from the 

 receptacle ; bracts setaceous, hardly exceeding 1 in. in length. Spikelets 

 |— J in. long, lanceolate, compressed, 6-10-flowered, chestnut-brown. 

 Glumes ovate, acuminate, mucronate, puberulous. Style 3-fid. Nut 

 J the length of the glume, trigonous, obovoid, truncate, smooth, dusky 

 brown ; style-base persistent, small, conic. — Durand & Schinz, Etudes 

 Fl. Congo, i, 306 ; De Wild. & Durand, 111. Fl. Congo, i. 21, t. 11. 

 Fimhristylis laniceps, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 125 

 in obs. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! Liberia : Grand Bassa, Vogel, 

 92! 



Z>ower Guinea. Corisco Island, Mann^ 1885 ! Lower Congo : Stanley PooU 

 950 ft., Sens, B, 347! Kisantu, Gillet, 1591 ! 1651 ! 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State r Lukolela, 950 ft., Sens, C, 163 ! 



11. B. cardiocarpa^ G. B. Clarke in Durand d- Schinz, Conspect, 

 Fl. Afr. V. 612. Rhizome 0. Stems 12-20 in. long, tufted, stouter 

 than in the preceding species, at the top trigonous and glabrous. 

 Leaves 3-9 in. long, setaceous, inrolled ; sheaths wooily-ciliate, with 

 straight white hairs in the throat. Head 1, \-\ in. in diam., chestnut- 

 brown, of 10-20 spikelets ; bracts 2, shorter than the head. Spikelets 

 f in. long, oblong-lanceolate, 5-12-fiowered. Glumes densely imbri- 

 cate, ovate, acuminate, mucronate, puberulous towards the top. Style 

 3-fid, Nut J the length of the glume, trigonous, rather narrowly 

 obovoid, pallid, truncate (almost depressed at the insertion of the 

 button), not longitudinally ribbed nor transversely wavy-lineate ; style- 

 base persistent, small, conic, dark-red ; outermost cells subquadrangular,. 

 prominent, sometimes inflated. — Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 124. 

 Fimhristylis cardiocarpa, Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 154 ; 

 K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 125, not of F. Mueller. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Morson ! 



Iiower Guinea. Lower Congo : Stanley Pool, Callewaert ! Kisantu, Gillet, 

 622 ! Kimuenza, Gillet, 791 I Angola : Pungo Andongo; in lofty places on Pedras 

 de Guinga, Welwitsch, 6816! Huilla ; lofty pastures and slopes of Mono de 

 Monino, Welwitsch, 6948 ! 6960 ! 



Var. /3 Holuhii, C. B. Clarke. Nut much larger, ^-f the length of the glume, 

 lead-coloured when fully ripe; style-base large, short-cylindric. — B. cardiocarpa,. 

 C. B. Clarke in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 208. 



Mozamb. 91st. Rhodesia : Leshumo Valley, Holuh ! 



Also in South Africa. 



Some of the h6ads are overtopped by the lowest bract. 



12. B. erratica, C. B. Clarke. Nearly glabrous, except the 

 minutely hairy glumes and top of the stem. Rhizome woody, stout 

 but very short. Stems approximate, 4-14 in. lopg, at the top trigonous- 



