466 CLVi. CYPERACE^ (clarke). [Fuirena, 



Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 646 ; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. 

 Welw. ii. 128. F. canescens, Vahl, Enum. ii. 385. F. ciliaris, Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. i. 180 ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 126. F, ochreata, 

 Nees in Linnaea, ix. 288 ; Kunth, Enum. ii. 184. F. ciliata, Steud. 

 Syn. PI. Glum. ii. 126. F. Hildehrandtii, Boeck. in Flora, 1882, 15. 

 Scirpus ciliaris, Linn. Mant. 182. 



Upper Crulnea. Senegambia : near Richard Toll, Roger J and \satbout pre- 

 cise locality, Leprieur I Heudelot, 556 ! Sierra Leone : Mahela, Scott-ELliot, 3982 ! 

 Gold Coast : Accra, Don / Brown, 365 ! Lagos Island, Barter, 2224 ! 



Xrile Iiand. British East Africa : Sabaki River, Gregory ! Mombasa, 

 Taylor ! 



Ziower euin'ea. Angola : Loanda ; at Represa de Maghelaos. rare, Welioitsch, 

 7107 ! 



Mozaxnba Bist. Zanzibar, Bojer ! German East Africa : Usambara, Hoist, 

 2040 ! 2737 ! Portuguese East Africa : Mozambique, Feters ! Quilimane, Kirk ! 

 Lower Zambesi ; Shupanga, Kirk ! Stewart ! 



Also in Madagascar, India, East Asia, and Australia. 



Var. angolensis, €. B. Clarke '.i Durand & Scbinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 647. 

 Three interior bypogynous bristles with a much smaller hardly quadrate lamina. — 

 F. ciliaris, var. angolensis, Schinz in Bull. H^rb. Boiss. iv. Append, iii. 31. 



UTile Z.and. British East Africa : Athi, Gregory, 102 ! 



lower Guinea. Angola : Gambos, Newton ! Huilla to Humpata, Johnston ! 

 Amboland ; Bautanen / 



In this variety, the bypogynous bristles are as, or very nearly as, in F. leptostacJiya : 

 but the spikek'ts are fully as large as in typical F. glomerata. 



9. P. leptostachya, Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 168, t. 108. 

 fig. B. Leaves often 4-8 in. long. Spikelets \-^ by Jg- - -fjj in. 

 Hypogynous bristles (3 interior or petals) as long as the nut, linear, 

 with a very small lamina which is oval, or with 2 recurved teeth. — 

 C. B. Clarke in Durand k Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 647, incl. var. 

 13 nudijfora ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 126. F. glomerata, 

 Boeck. in Flora, 1879, 566, not of Lam. F. schit'einfurthiana, Boeck. 

 in Flora, 1880, 438. Fuirena sp. n. 3, T. Thorns, in Speke, Journ. 

 Append. 654, 



If lie land. British East Africa: Jur; Jnr Ghattas, <S'c^?cei»/'«r^^, ser. iii. 

 190 ! Bongo ; Gir, Schwei7ifnrth, 2504 ! Madi, Speke and Grant / 



nXozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Xyas;iland ? Tanganyika Platenu, at 

 Fort Hill, 3500 ft., Whyte ! 



In Schweinfurth's 2504 I have found no hypogynous bristles, and formerly dis- 

 tinguished it as var. nudijiora. The plant is young, and the bristles may perhaps not 

 yet be developped ; but if there should prove to be no bristles in this plant, 

 I should hardly esti.'em it as more than an accidental state of F. leptostachya. 



10. F. ximbellata, Rotib. Descr. et Ic. 70, t. I'd, fig. 3. Hairy, at 

 least the glumes. Rhizome stout, horizontal, \voody. Stems 1|— 5 ft. long, 

 robust, with nodes throughout their length. Leaves up to 6 by J in., 

 less often \ in. broad. Panicle long oblong, often with many axillary 

 compound corymbs and 200-600 spikelets. Spikelets \-\ by -J-J in., 



