Fiiirena.'] clvi. cyperace^ (clarke). 467 



green or dull chestnut-coloured. Glumes elliptic ; keel excurrent in a 

 curved bristle. Hypogynous bristles : outer 3 (sepals) linear, small 

 or ; inner 3 as long as the nut, obovate truncate, sessile or 

 hardly clawed. Style linear ; branches 3, linear. Nut about h the 

 length of the glume, triquetrous, ovoid, acuminate at the top 

 and at the base, smooth, pallid, ultimately brown; beak small, 

 cylindric, very narrow. — Kunth, Enum. ii. 185; Benth. in Hook. 

 Niger Fl. 553; Boeck. in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 545, in 

 Linnaea, xxxvii. 110, and in Flora, 1879, 5G6 ; Oliver in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xxix. 168; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 666, and in 

 Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 648 ; Henriques in Bolet. Soc. 

 Brot. V. 209 ; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 308; K. Schum. 

 in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 126 ; Durand k De Wild. Comptes-rendus Soc. 

 bot. Belg. xxxvi. 90; Urban, Symb. Antill. ii. 97 ; Rendle in Cat. Afr. 

 PI. Welw. ii. 129. F. paniculata, Linn. f. Suppl. 105. F. j^entagona, 

 Schumach. Beskr. Guin. PI. 42. F. canescens, Steud. Syn. PL Glum. ii. 

 128, not of Vahl. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perrottet, 81-t ! Sierra Leone ; by the Kabelt- 

 River, Scott-Elliot, 4929 ! and without precise locality, Afzelius ! Guinen, Isert ! 

 Jardin! Liberia: Bassa Cove, ^«*e/^ .' Lagos: Abeokuta, /rriw*/ .' Niger Territory : 

 ^\x\^e, Barter, 4:1^\ 1016! Niger Delta ; Nun River, Vogel,-d\ 61! Cameroons : 

 Cameroon River, Mann, 111 ! Yaunde, Zenker Sf Staudt, 632 ! Zenker, 1512 ! 



Ifflle Xiand. British East Africa: Jur; Jur Gliattas, Schiveinfurih, 2.192 \ 

 2407! Niamniam; Yubbo River, Schtceinfurth^ 3724! Madi, Speke Sf Grant, 721 ! 



Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, Don ! Loango : ne;ir C^li^choco, 

 Sotjaux^ 201 ! Lower Congo, Lutete, 1800 ft.. Hens, 198 ! Kisantu, GUlet, 368 ! 

 and without precise locality. Smith, 324 ! Angola : Golungo Alto; by streams near 

 Golungo Alto and Sange, Welwitsch, 7121 ! Pungo Andongo ; near the River 

 Cuanza, Welwitsch, 7120 ! 



South Central. Congo Free State : Kassai River, Luja, 218 ! 



IVKozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Kuntze, 285 ! Gei-nian East Africa : Zanguebar, 



Kirk ! Tanga, Hoist, 2028 ! British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Tangr.nyika 

 Plateau, at Fort Hill, 3500-4C>00 ft., Whyte / Mbame Hill, 3000 ft., Kirk ! Shire 

 Highlands, Buchanan, 9 ! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 1133 1 Whyte, 

 75! 



Very common in all tropical and subtropical regions. 



11. P. cinerascens, Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot.u. 

 161, name only. Hairy, at least the glumes. Rhizome creeping. 

 Stems 12-16 in. long, with nodes throughout their length. Leaves 

 2-4 by -^— J in. Panicle oblong, with distant peduncles bearing 15-6(^ 

 spikelets. Spikelets 3-6 together, J— i by ^-J in., subcylindric, black- 

 green. Glume elliptic, with a long recurved bristle. Inner 3 hypo- 

 gynous bristles as long as the nut. obovate, strongly 3-nerved, with a 

 terminal crest, lateial wings and a ciliate claw. Nut J the length of 

 the glume, triquetrous, ovoid, acuminate at the top and at the base, 

 smooth, pallid ; beak small, cylindric, very narrow. — C B. Claike in 

 Durand k Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 045 ; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. 

 VVehv. ii. ISO ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 120. F. calolejns. 



