440 CLVi. CYPE xcEM (clarke). [J^ulbosti/Us. 



23. B. Burchellii, C. B. Clarke in Durand <£• Schinz, Gonspect. FL 

 Afr. V. 612. Rhizome hardly any. Stems 4-20 in. long, very slender, 

 glabrous at the top. firmly tufted and almost fused at the base. Leaves 

 ^ the length of the stem, setaceous; sheaths woolly, with long white 

 hairs at the throat. Umbel simple or compound, 2-4 in. in diam., often 

 of 30 spikelets ; many of the spikelets solitary on pedicels \ in. long or 

 upwards, sometimes reduced to a head of 1-4 "spikelets; bracts short, 

 setaceous. Spikelets \-\ by tV~to ^^-j oblong or narrowrcylindric, pale 

 brown. Glumes ov^ate, hardly acute, minutely pubescent. Style 3-fid. 

 Nut ^ the length of the glume, trigonous, obovoid, truncate, pale- 

 brown, smooth with obscure transverse wavy lines ; style-base persistent 

 on the nut, small, conic, dark brown. — C. B. Clarke in Dyer, Fl. Cap. 

 vii. 210 ; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pi. Weiw. ii. 125. Fimhristylis Bur- 

 chellii, Ficalho & Hiern in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 28, t. 6, B^ 

 fig. 7-15; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 125. F. hispidula, 

 Boeck. in Linn£i^a, xxxvii. 27 partly. F. huillensis, Ridley in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 154. Scirpus capillifolius, Boeck. in 

 Rehmann, Exsicc. 4330, not of Parlatore. 



SiOwer Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; pastures of Empelaca, Welwifsch, 6950 I 

 pastures at Catumba, Wetwitsch, 6951 ! 



]|£o2ainl>. Sist. Portuguese East Africa : Lower Shire, or. a stony hill- 

 side at Morainbala, Scott 1 British Central Africa : Boruina, ou the Zambesi, Meny- 

 harth, 1055 ! Nyasaland ; near Blantyre, Last ! 



Also in South Africa. 



This is closely allied to J3. capiUaris ; the pale brown spikelets are larger, the 

 stems longer, and at the base stouter, the leaf-sheaths much mere hairy. 



24. B. argenteobruuea, C. B. Clarke. Stems densely tufted, 

 1 ft. long, at the top glabrous with the stomata very conspicuous as 

 rows of dots between the ribs. Leaves half the length of the stem, 

 setaceous; sheaths brown, with long white hairs on the throat. 

 Umbel 1^^ in. in diam., subcompound, of 6-14 spikelets; bracts as long 

 as the umbel, setaceous. Spikelets solitary, J by -^ in., narrowly 

 ellipsoid, subacute, a silver-brown colour. Glumes boat-shaped, ovate, 

 apicuiate, pubescent, a few very long white hairs f.dded on the back ; 

 keel green.^ Style rather short ; branches 3, long. Nut f the length 

 of the glume, trigonous, obovoid, truncate, contracted at the base 

 almost pear-shaped, pale brown, with transverse wavy lines; style-base 

 persistent on the nut, small, dark-red, very short cylindric (button- 

 shaped). 



xrile Xiand. British East Africa : Ngomeni, in Kikumbul!u, ScoitSIltof,. 

 6270! 



25. B. pusilla, C. B. Clarke in Durand d- Sckinz, Conspect. FL. 

 Afr. V. 615. Stems 1-5 in. long, with 1-9 spikelets. Nut very broadly 

 obovoid (broader than long), trigonous, truncate, black with strong 

 horizontal glistening- white wavy lines (i.e. the more persistent ends of 

 the longitudinal cells which have withered ofi*) ; otherwise as E. capil- 

 laris. — Fimhristylis pusilla, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 506 ; Zarb, 

 in Cat. Spec, Bot. Pfund, 39. Scirpus Ilochstetteri, Boeck. in Linnaea^ 



