Bulhostylis.'] clvi. CYPERACEiE (clarke). 4oa 



and minutely hairy or glabrate. Leaves nearly as long as the stem, 

 setaceous, inrolled; sheaths pale brown, not bearded in the throat. 

 Head 1, of 8-5 spikelets, bright chestnut-brown; lowest bract ovate at 

 the base, the linear green or yellow termination longer or shorter than 

 the head. Spikelets J by J-J in., cylindric-lanceolate. Glumes closely 

 imbricate, often 15-20 to the spikelet, the nutbearing glumes up to 

 \ in. long, elliptic- oblong, scarcely acute; keel green or yellow. Style 

 shorter than the nut, branches o. Nut \-\ the length of the glume, 

 oblong, somewhat obovoid, truncate, trigonous with 8 shining angles, 

 and chestnut-brown in colour, marked inconspicuously by transverse 

 wavy lines ; outermost cells longitudinally oblong ; style- base persistent 

 on the nut, small, conic. — B. schcenoides^ C. B. Clarke in Durand i 

 Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 616, partly ; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. 

 Welw. ii. 124. Schcenus ? erraticus, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 

 22. Isolepis scho&noides, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 225. 

 Chcptos-pora nigricans, Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxviii. 290, partly, i.e. G, 

 Mann's plant. Fimhristylis kunthiana, Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 ser. 2, Bot. ii. 151. F. sckcenoides, K. Schum. in Engl. Pil. Ost-Afr. 

 C. 125 partly. Scirpus kamei^unensis, K. Schum. in Preuss, Exsicc. 

 925. 



X7pper Crulnea. Cameroons: Cameroon Mountain, 7000-11000 ft., Mann, 

 134 1! 2105! Johnston, 41! and without precise locality, Prew**, 925 I Fernimdo 

 Po : Clarence Peak, 9000 ft., Mann, 655 ! 1472 ! 



G. Mann's examples are excellent and ripe; the plant is certainly a Bulbostt/Hs. 

 The ripe nut is remarkable, and separates it from all other species of BtdbostylU 

 where t>se nut is known, but unfortunately the nut in JB. schoenoides is not known. 



13. B. atrosanguineay C. B. Clarke in Durand d: Schinz, Con- 

 spect. FL Afr. V. 611. Rhizome hardly any. Stems densely tufte(', 

 1 foot long, slender, at the top triquetrous and minutely hairy. Leaver 

 nearly as long as the stem, setaceous, minutely hairy ; sheaths hairv, 

 Fcarcely bearded in the throat. Head 1, |-| in. in diam., of 4-12 

 spikelets, chestnut-coloured ; lowest bract setaceous, usually much 

 overtopping the head. Spikelets ^ in. long, oblong or narrow-ellipsoid, 

 6-12-flowered. Glumes closely imbricate, ovate, obtuse or scarcely 

 acute, keeled. Stamens 3. Style long, glabrous ; branches 3, linen r. 

 Nut (seen only young) trigonous-obovoid. — Scirpus atrosangui^eus, 

 Boeck. in Engl. Jahrb. vii. 276 ; Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, 

 Bot. ii. 353. aS'. schoenoides, Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 14K. 

 Fimhristylis atrosanguinea^ Volkens, Kilimand. 311 ; K. Schum. in 

 Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 125. F. schcenoides, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. 

 Ost-Afr. C. 125 partly. 



Wile Z.and. British East Africa : Nandi, 7O0O-8O0O ft., Scott-Mliot, 6971 ! 



Ito-wer Crnlnea. Angola : Huilla ; near Nene, Welwitsch, 6949 ! 



Mozamb. »l8t. German E.ast Africa: Kilimanjaro, 8500-11000 fr.. 

 Volkens, 892 1 1300 ! Johnston, 157 1 British Centn.l Africa : Nyasalandj Mount 

 Zouiba, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte ! 



