/^cirpics.] CLVi. CYPERACEJ5 (clarke). 457 



brown ; keel green, excurrent into a short mucro. Hypogynous bristles 

 7-2, plumose with moniliform several-celled hairs. Style linear ; 

 branches 2. Nut ^ the length of the glume, obovoid, plano-convex, 

 black-chestnut, smooth or minutely reticulate. — Kunth, Enum. ii. 166 ; 

 Coss. (fc Durieu, Expl. Sc. Alger. Glum. 235 ; Boiss. Fi. Orient, v. 38B ; 

 C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 659, in Durand & Schinz, 

 Conspect, Fl. Afr. v. 625 incl. var. ^, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 231 ; 

 K. Schuui. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 126 ; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. 

 ii. 127. jS. suhulatus, Yahl, Enum. ii. 268; Kunth, Enum. ii. 165; 

 Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxvi. 715 ; Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 

 158. aS'. fimhrisetus, Delile, Fl. Egypte, 11, b. 7, fig. 1. S. cegyptiacvs, 

 Decaisne m Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, iv. 196. ,S'. triqueter^ Gren. k Godr. 

 Fl. Frang. iii. 373; Boeck. in Linnasa, xxxvi. 716, not of Linn. 

 S. pterolepis, Kunth, Enum. ii. 166. Malacochcete littoralis, Nees in 

 Linnsea, ix. 292. M. pterolepis, Nees in Linnsea, ix. 292, x. 184. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Jleudelot, 533 ! 



Iiower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes; ponds near Aguadas, Welwitsch, 

 6973 ! Pungo Andongo ; marshy places by the River Cuanza, Welwitsch, 6847 ! 



nZozamb. Bist. Portuguese East Africa : Zambesi Delta ; banks of the River 

 Luabo, Kirk ! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; shore of Lake Nyasa, Meller ! 

 Lake Pamolombe, Kii-k ! Boruina, on the Zambesi, Menyharth, 1064 ! 



Abundant throughout the Mediterranean Region, common in South Africa, 

 South-east Asia, Malaya and North Australia. Not in America, where it is replaced 

 by the very closely allied S. riparius, Presl. 



20. S. kyllingioides, Boeck. in Linncea, xxxvi. 733. Glabrous, 

 perennial; slender stolons sometimes present. Stems 1-6 (rarely 16) in. 

 long, slender. Leaves J as long as the stem, -^jj in. broad, grass-like. 

 Head 1, subglobose, -1^-*^ (rarely ^ in. in diam., quasi-terminal, green 

 or pale brown, the innumerable glume-points sticking out straight on 

 all sides; bracts 3-4, spreading or pendent, leaf-like, longer than the 

 head, sometimes 2-3 in. long. Glumes ovate, contracted rather suddenly 

 into a linear obtuse termination. Hypogynous bristles 0. Style linear, 

 shorter than the nut ; branches 3 (or fide Boeckeler 2) long. Nut ^ 

 the length of the glume, oblong-obovoid, unequally trigonous, smooth, 

 black-brown.— C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 662, and in 

 Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 624 ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. 

 Ost-Afr. C. 126. Kyllinga microcephala, Steud. in Flora, 1842, 507, 

 and Syn. PI. Glum. ii. 70 excl. the Obs. Isolepis kyllingioides, A. Rich. 

 Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 502 ; Schweinf. PI. Nilot. 42. 



Upper Guinea. Upper Senegal, Lecard, 80 ! 110 bis ! Soudan, Lecard, 

 41! 106! 



mie 2jand. Sennar, Hartmann ! Gallabat : banks of the River Gendua, 

 Schweirtfurf.h, 2053! Ab)'ssinia: near Gon Ambra, Schimper, 650! Shireh 

 Province, Quartin- Dillon Sf Petit, 650! and without precise locality, Schimper, 

 122! 848! British East Africa: Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 1916! 



IVKozaznb. Blst. Zanzibar, Taylor! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; 

 Zomba Plains, 2500-3000 ft., Whyte ! Namasi, Cameron, 91! 



Also scattered throughout Western India. 



