43S CLVi. CYPEUACE.« (clarke). [Bulbostylis, 



Glumes ovate, acuminate, with a small muero, pubescent. Style 3-fid. 

 js^ut J-| the length ot the glume, round-trigonous, narrowly obovoid, 

 somewhat narrowed at the top, pale brown, with about 15 slender 

 longitudinal striations, and trabeculate horizontally between the striae ; 

 style-base left on the nut as a small depressed button. — Rendle in Cat. 

 Afr. PI. Welv/. ii. \2Q. Fimbrlstylis harhata, Ridley in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 152. 



Zio-v^er Crulneat Angola : Loanda ; on the Island of Casanga, Welwitsch, 

 6982 ! sandy sliore of Praia de Zamba Grande and Maianga d'El Rei, Welwitsch, 

 7000 ! Mossaniedes ; Cabo Negro, on the banks of the River Caroca, Welwitsch, 

 ()962 ! 



The separate heads of spikelets (here usually urabelled) resemble greatly the 

 head of B. barhata (always solitary); the marking of the nut differs. 



20. B. capillaris, Kunth, var. trifida, C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. 

 Fl. Brit. Incl. vi„ 652. A densely tufted annual. Stems 2-12 in. long, 

 setaceous, at the top glabrous. Leaves ^ as long as the stems, seta- 

 ceous ; sheaths with long white hairs in the throat. Spikelets in a 

 simple or compound lax umbel, all solitary, or in weak examples, 

 only 'd-1 to a stem ; bracts setaceous, short. Spikelets usually -J by 

 ^j^ in., about 12-flowered, but vary from ^V to J in., from dark-brown 

 to pale brown. Glumes boat-shaped, ovate, hardly acute, nerveless, 

 pubescent; keel pallid. Stamens usually 2; anthers narrow-oblong, 

 muticous. Style as long as the nut, filiform, glabrous ; branches 8, 

 long. Nut I the length of the glume, trigonous, obovoid, truncate, 

 pallid or pale brown, smooth, without vertical or transverse undulate 

 lines, or the transverse undulations faintly indicated ; outermost cells 

 short oblong longitudinally ; style-base persistent on the nut as a small 

 depressed ovoid button. — C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. 

 Fl. Afr. v. G12 ; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 305 ; Durand & 

 De Wild, in Comptes-rendus Soc. bot. Belg. xxxvi. 89 ; Bendle in Cat. 

 Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 125. B. trifida, Kunth, Enum. ii. 213, cf. 205. 

 Scirpus capillaris, Linn. Mant. 321 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 

 148. Isolepis trifida, Nees in Wight, Contrib. 108 ; Hook. f. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. vii. 224; cf. Boeck. in Flora, 1860, 178. Fimbristylis 

 capillacea, Steud. in ZoU. Verz. Ind. Archip. ii. 61; Ridley in Trans, 

 lann. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 153. F. capillaris, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. 

 Ost-Afr. C. 125. Isolejns capilko'is, F. Muell. Fragm. ix. 7. 



Upper Guinea. Togo, Baumann ! Dahomey, Newton, 25 ! Niger Territory : 

 Nupe, Barter, 1579 ! Cameroons : Cameroon Mountain, 6000-1000 ft., Mann, 1360 ! 

 2093 ! Fernando Po : Claiemie Peak, 8500 ft. to the summit, Mann, 660 ! 1471 ! 

 Milne ! 



irile Iiand. Abyssinia: Begemeder; near Gafat, -S^cAimjser, 1251, bis ! Aniba 

 Sea? QOOO it., Schimper, Ml \ ]Memsa (Memsach), QMarjJt»-Di7/o/» .' British East 

 Africa : Athi, Gregory, 23 ! 



Iio^irer Guinea. Giboon : Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 352! Lower 

 Congo : Gorabi to Lutete, Sens, A, 298 ! Kisantu, Gillef, 417 ! 1564 ! Angola : 

 Punjro Andongo; Pedras de Guinga, Welwitsch, 6819! Huilla; between Empelaiiea 

 and Humpata, Welwitsch, 6958 ! around Empelaea, Welwitsch, 6958b ! 



