464 CLvi. CYP^RACEiE (clarke). [Fidrenci. 



broad, brownish. Glumes appearing more or less distinctly 5-ranked ; 

 otherwise as F. pubescens. — C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. 

 Fl. Afr. V. 649, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. iv. 54 ; Rendle in 

 Cat. Afr. PL Welw. ii. 128, F. Buchanani, Boeck. Cyp. Novae, i. 20 ; 

 K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 126. F. pubescens,vsiy. Buchanani, 

 C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 648. 



ILower CS-uinea. Angola : Pungo Andongo ; marshes near Quibanga, Wel- 

 witsch, 7108 ! Huilla ; damp slopes of Morro de Monino, Wehoitsch, 7109 ! near 

 LopoUo, WelwiUch, 7114 ! dry hills near Erne, Welwitsch, 7115 ! 



IMLozamb. Slst. British Central Africa: TJrungu; Fwambo, 5250 ft., 

 Nutt ! Nyasaland ; Shire Highlands, Buchanan ! and without precise locality, 

 nuchanan, 1435 ! 1442 ! 



The development of the panicle varies so much in Fuirena, that I do not think 

 species can be maintained on the character of a single compound head. 



4. F. pachyrrhiza, Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 161^ 

 Rhizome stout,' about \ in. thick. Panicle and glumes minutely hairy. 

 Spikes and glumes rather larger than in F. pubescens ; nut smaller, with 

 narrower style-base ; outermost cells granular, subelliptic in obscurely 

 vertical series; otherwise as F. pt:bescens. — C. B. Clarke in Durand & 

 Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr v. 647 and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 262 ; 

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

 ii. 129. F. macrostachya, Boeck. in Engl. Jahrb. v. 507. Fuirena aff. 

 F. pubescenti, Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 168. 



Wile Iiand. British East Africa : Ukamba, 6000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6728 ! 



I.ower Guinea. Angola : Pungo Andonga, 2500-4000 ft., Welwitsch, 7117 ! 

 7118! 7119! 



2VEozam1>. 3>ist. German East Africa : VTundi, Scott-Mliot, 8S01 1 Uyanzi;. 

 ill the Mgunda Mkhali, at Jiwa la Mkoa, Speke Sf Grant ! Lake Tanganyika, 

 Cameron\ Unyamwezi ; Gonda, ^o«;Aw, 73. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; 

 Shire Highlands, Scott-Mliot, 8481 ! 



Also in South Africa. 



5, p. pygxnaea, Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 160. 

 Hairy, at least the panicle and glumes, annual. Stems tufted, 5-20 in. 

 long, slender, with nodes (bearing either leaves or bracts) in the upper 

 part.' Leaves 2-6 by ^-^-^ in. Inflorescence (in Ridley's type) about 

 1 in. long and broad; of a terminal cluster of 7 spikelets, and an axillary 

 branched peduncle carrying in all 8 spikelets ; but, in Menyharth's 

 examples there are distant axillary heads forming a long panicle. 

 Spikelets \ by ^V~Tir i^- Glumes with a bristle J their length, 

 jlypogynous bristles or rudimentary. Style with three branches.. 

 Nut hardly J the length of the glume, trigonous, obovoid, smooth, 

 brown finally black ; beak (or style -base) cylindric, very narrow ; 

 outermost cells elliptic, transverse, obscure. — C. B. Clarke in Durand 

 & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 648 including var. /3 Menyharthi ; Rendle 

 in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. ii. 128. 



XiO'wer Guinea. Angola : Pungo Andongo ; in sandy marshes near Sansa- 

 manda, and between Mopopo and Sansamanda, Welwitsch, ^111 \ 7171! Huilla; La 

 daa)p places at Monino, Wehoitsch^ 71124 



