Fui7'ena.] clvi. CYPERACEiE (clarke). 463 



to the topmost leaf. Spikelets J by ^ in., mostly short-pedicelled. Glumes 

 boat-shaped, ovate, obtuse, retuse, pale brown, glabrous, the green stout 

 keel excurrent in a recurved mucro ^ the length of the glume. Hypo- 

 gynous bristles 0. Nut f the length of the glume, triquetrous, broadly 

 obovoid truncate almost retuse, black, with obscure transverse wavy 

 lines ; beak or style-base minute ; style short, branches 3, long. 



IkKozamb. Dlst. British Central Africa : Boruma, on the Zambesi, Meny- 

 karth, 1060! 



This is put in Finrena because of the nodose stem and elongate panicle. Neither 

 the glabrous glumes, nor the nut, nor the defect of hvpogynous bristles suit 

 Fuirena well. 



2. P. pubescenSy Kunth, Enum. ii. 182. Hairy, especially the 

 inflorescence. Rhizome long-creeping, yV^i ^"- ^bick. Stems often 

 solitary, 4-16 in. long, triquetrous, with nodes throughout their length. 

 Leaves 6 in. by ^-5 in., ultimately often pendent ; base broad with a 

 prominent ligule ; lowest bracts similar to the topmost leaf. Panicle 



10 by 2 in., with remote peduncles, but often reduced to 1 or 2 few- 

 flowered subterminal always corymbose not umbelled clusters. Spikelets 

 ovoid or broad-ellipsoid, |-J in. long, usually i in. broad, not 5-ranked. 

 Glumes broad-elliptic, obtuse, hairy without, 3-5-ribbed, blackish-green 

 on the sides; bristle J- J the length of the glume. Hypogynous bristles 0, 

 or quite rudimentary. Nut less than J the length of the glume, 

 triquetrous, narrowly obovoid, crowned by a scabrid triquetrous narrowly 

 pyramidal style-base; outermost cells forming ultimately a marble 

 white minutely reticulated loose coat ; style 3-fid. — A. Rich. Tent. Fl. 

 Abyss, ii. 497 ; Boeck. in liinnsea, xxxvii. 104, and in Flora, 1879, 566 ; 

 Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 160 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook, 

 f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 665, in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 648, 

 in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 261 ; Ficalho & Hiern in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, 

 Bot. ii. 28 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 146 ; K. Schum. in Engl. 

 Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 126 ; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 128. Scirpiis 

 puhescens, Lam. 111. i. 139 ; Cosson &, Durieu, Expl. Scient. Alger. 

 Glum. 237 ; J. Ball in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 703. 



irile ^and. Abyssinia : Begcmeder ; near Selaneko, 8800 ft., Schhvper, 

 1296 ! and without precise locality. Roth I Britisli East Africa : Giizelle River, 

 Schweinfnrth, 1164! Ukauiba. 5000-6000 ft., Scott-Mliot, 6523 ! 



Iiower Guinea. Angola : Golungo Alto ; in marsliy meadows by the River 

 Cas^aballa, Wehoitsch, 7116! German South-west Africa: Hereroland ; Dinter, 

 125 ! 



IMCozamb. Dlst. German East Africa : Tanga, Volkens, 23 ! British Central 

 Africa : Xyascdand ; Xyika Plateau, 6000-7000 ft., Whyte, 203 ! Namasi, Cameron, 



11 ! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 1453 ! 



Extends from Portugal and Corsica to South Africa and India. 



3. P. Welwitschii, Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 161. 

 Stems rather slender, closer together on the rhizome. Leaves narrower, 

 upper scarcely \ in. broad, very erect. Inflorescence usually reduced 

 to 1 or 2 subterminal heads. Spikelets oblong-ellipsoid, about J in. 



