Scirpus.] CLVi. CYPERACE.E (clarke). 459' 



BSozamb. Blst. British Central Africa : Nyasalaiid ; Kondowe to Karonga, 

 2000-6000 ft., Whi/te ! 



Also in Madagascar, India, and the Philippines. 



This species both by authors and by collectors (in Bai'ter, 761) is mixed with 

 Lipocavpha microcephala, R. Br. 



24. S. Hystrix, Thunb. Prodr. 17. Mucro longer than the 

 glume. Nut obviously reticulated, the outermost cells being much 

 larger than in S. squarrosus : otherwise as S. squarrosus. — Boeck. in 

 Linnsea, xxxvi. 735 ; C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. 

 Fl. Afr. V, 623, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 233 ; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PL 

 Welw. ii. 127. S. Rehmanni, Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 

 159. Isolepis Hystrix^ Schrad. Anal. Fl. Cap. 23; Kunth, Enum. ii. 

 204. 



]bo\irer Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; in damp fields around Lopollo, Welwitsch,. 

 6771! Huilla to Humpata, Johnston ! banks of the River Palanca, Netvton ! 



Mozaxnb. Dlst. British Central Africa : Nyasalan*! ; Tanganyika Plateau, at 

 Fort Hill, Whyte ! 



Frequent in South Africa. 



25. S. Isolepis, Boeck. in Linncea, xxxvi. 498. A glabrous 

 tufted annual. Stems 1-10 in. long, setaceous. Leaves J-lJ in. long, 

 setaceous, Spikelet 1 to a stem, J-J in. long, ovoid -ellipsoid, obtuse, 

 dense, not squarrose, chestnut-coloured, sticking out at right angles 

 apparently from the stem which is continued by the bract ^-1 in. long. 

 Glumes obovate with a triangular top, caducous in fruit from the 

 lowest nut-bearing glume upwards ; a small oblong, very thin hyaline 

 lateral scale is sometimes present within the glume. Hypogynoiis 

 bristles ; unless represented by the hyaline scale. Stamen 1, occa- 

 sionally 2 ; anther small, oblong. Style hardly any ; branches 2, short, 

 recurved. Nut | the length of the glume, biconvex, obovoid or 

 ellipsoid, smooth, black, minutely reticulated. — C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 663, in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 624, 

 in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append, iii. 32, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 233 ; 

 Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 128. Hemicarpha Isolepis, Nees in 

 Edinb. New Phil. Journ. xvii. 263; Kunth, Enum. ii. 268; Benth. et 

 Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 1053; Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 

 161. H. Schraderi, Kunth, Enum. ii. 268; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 

 ii. 507. H. senegalensis, Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. ii. 130. Lipocarpha 

 Bautanenii, Boeck. in Verhandl. Bot. Yer. Brandenb. xxxi. 179. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perrottet, Leprieur, 9 ! 



Wile Iiand. Gallabat : region of Matamma, Schiveinfurth, 2047. 



Zio^^er Guinea. Angola : Pungo Andongo ; Sansamanda, Weltvitsch, 6814 ! 

 in marshy places at Lombe, Welwitsch, 6815 ! between Condo and Quisonde, Wei- 

 witsch, 6818 ! Huilla ; in the lofty meadows of Empalanca, Wehoitsch, 6963 ! 

 German South-west Africa : Amboland, Rautanen, 219 ! 



Also in South Africa and India. 



26. S. micranthus, Vahl^ Enum. ii. 254. Spikelets 3-1 to each 

 stem, in an apparently lateral cluster, somewhat squarrose. Glumes 



