444 CLvi. CYPERACEiE (clarke). [Bulbostylis , 



IVelwitsch, 6820 ! Pedra Cambondo and Muta Lucala, WelwitscJt, 6821 ! in the 

 Prajsidium, JVelwitsch, 6825 ! (3830 ! Pedras de Guingn, WehviUch, 6827b ! 

 6830b ! 



:)2. B. transieus, C. B. Clarke. Stems 1 ft. long, slender, at the 

 top minutely hairy. Leaves hardly any ; the topmost sheath produced 

 on one side J-1 J in., lax, pale rusty-brown, with scattered long white 

 hairs. Spikelets 3-4, solitary, on pedicels 0-J in. long, :j by J in. ; 

 l)racts shorter than the umbel. Glumes boat-shaped, ovate, hardly 

 jicutH, pale brown, pubescent ; keel green. Nut large, exceeding J the 

 lengch of the glume, trigonous, obovoid, truncate, pallid, strongly waved 

 horizontally; style o-branched ; base persistent on the nut, large for 

 Bulbostijlis, ovoid-cuboid, dusky. — Fimbristylis transiens, K. Schum. in 

 Hoist, Exsicc. 2199. 



nKozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Usambara ; Bombuera, Hoist, 2199 ! 



iV^. B. melanocephala, C. B. Clarke in Dvrand d- Schinz^ 

 Vonspect. Fl. Afr. v. G15. Stem 1-2 in. long, with 1-2 solitary ovoid- 

 globuse chestnut-red spikelets \-\ in. long ; otherwise as B. capillaris. — 

 Reiulle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 124. Fhnhristylis melanocephala^ 

 Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 151 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. 

 Trop. Afr. 149. 



Iiower Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; between Morro de Lopollo and Humpata, 

 JFe/ivitsch, 6947 I 



1 cannot find any nut on the young examples of Welwitscii on which this species- 

 is ft.unded ; and therefore do not attempt to reduce it to any known species, 



o4. B. macra, C. B. Clarke in Durand d- Schinz, Conspect, 

 Fl. Afr. V. 614. Rhizoire short, horizontal, woody. Stem 8 in. 

 long, slender, glabrous at the top. Leaves J the length of the 

 .stem, setaceous ; sheaths with long white hairs in the throat. Spikelet 

 1 on each t^tem (a second long-pedicelled sometimes added), ^ by j^y in., 

 rti.-^ty-brown ; bract longer than the spikelet. Glumes boat-shaped, 

 uvaie, minutely pubescent, keel 8-nerved, tip triangular. Nut J as 

 1 )ng as the glume, large for Bulbostylis, trigonous, obovoid, truncate, 

 pallid, smooth, obscurely wavy transversely. Style nearly as long as 

 tne nut; branches 3, linear; base persistent on the nut, small, 

 t)void, depressed, black-brown. — Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 124. 

 Fimbristylis macra, Eidley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bof. ii. 150. 



Ziower Qulnea. Angola: Huilla; in thicket-gi-own pastures in the Lopollo 

 district, TFelivitsch, 6955 ! 



oi). B. megastachys, C. B. Clarke in Durand d- Schinz, Conspect. 

 Fl. Afr. V. 614. Stems densely tufted, 12 in. long, rigid, stouter than 

 in any other Bulbostylis of this section, at the top glabrous. Leaves 

 hardly \ the length of the stem, setaceous, glabrous or minutely 

 scabrous on the margins ; sheaths without any white hairs in the 

 throat. Umbel simple of 3-5 solitary spikelets ; bracts 2-3, lowest J-J 



