4scoIej)is.] CLVi. CYPERACE.E (clarke). 477 



squamella. — C. B. Clarke in Durand & ^ijahmz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 652 ; 

 Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 131. 



Upper Guinea. Niger Territory : Nupe, in rice fields, Barter, 761 ! 



Xiower Cruinea. Angola : Huillii ; in damp pastures around Lopollo and 

 Monino, Welwitsch, 1678 ! 



This plant is exceedingly like the small species oi Lipocarpha as L. microcephala , 

 The distinct 3 spikelets in the head separate it completely from the precediD"- 

 species with globose or hemispheric heads. Kidley has figured the squamella its 

 of sect. Flatylepis, i.e. completely utricular, which is certainly not the case 

 ill Barter, 761, where the margins of the squamella are free to the base. 

 Weluitsch 1678 (whence Kidley took his figures) must, I think, be the same species. 

 as Barter 761 ; but the flowers are still more minute and the margiu of the 

 squnmella moi'B difiicult to see. 



8. A. capensisy Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 164. 

 Glabrous. Rhizome seen up to 2 in. long, slender, black, usually 0'. 

 Stems 8-20 in. long, densely tufted, slender. Leaves -|— | the length 

 of the stem, j^-\ in. broad. Head of 3-1 (fused or nearly distinct) 

 spikelets, white or straw-coloured ; bracts 3, spreading, similar to the 

 leaves, from a short broad base, lowest 1— t in. long. Spikelets J-J in. long, 

 ovoid, dense. Glume oblong, shorter than the squamella. Squamella 

 flattened from front to back, shaped as a watch-pocket, the margins 

 connate on the posticous side nearly to the top, the beak from the 

 anticous side ^j^-^ in. or more long, very variable, also the beaks of tht^ 

 marginal flowers often elongate, so that the heads are more or less 

 rayed. Style much shorter than the nut ; branches 2, scarcely exserted 

 from the mouth of the pocket. Nut sessile, J-| the length of the 

 pocket, oblong-ellipsoid, compressed, smooth, black. — C. B. Clarke in 

 Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. G51 inch var. ^ lacera, in 

 Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append, iii. 31, in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 26G, and 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. iv. 54 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. 

 Afr. 144; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 127; Rendle in Cat. 

 Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 131. Platylepis capensis, Kunth, Enum. ii. 2G0 ; 

 Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxvii. 119, and in Flora, 1879, 567. 

 Upper Guinea. Niger Territory : Nupe, Barter ! 



Nile Xiand. British East Africa : Upper Nile, Pe^Aeric/t .' Jur; Jur Ghattas, 

 Sehiceinftirth, 1467 ! 1505 ! Jur Awet, Schtveinfurth, 1565 ! 



Iiower Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; in spongy places near Lopollo and on the 

 higher parts of Morro de Lopollo, Welivilsc/i, 1676! ]677 ! near Ferrao de Sola 

 Welicitsch, 1676 b! Serra d' Uiahoin, Welwitsch, 1677 b! Humpata and Huilla 

 Johnston I Newton ! Ovainbolanil ; HopfneVy 81 ! 



Mozamb. Sist. German East Africa : Lower Plateau, north of Lake Nyasa, 

 Thomson'. Portuguese E«st Africa: Namuli Mountains, Last! British Central 

 Africa: Urungu ; Fwanibo, Carson, 83! Nntt ! Nyasaland ; Shire Highland?, 

 Buchanan^ 27 ! Mount Zomba, 4<)0O-60OO ft., Whyte ! Mount Malosa, 40C0-6000 ft.' 

 Whyte 1 Mount Mlanji, ir%^e .' between Lake Shirwa and Lake Chiuta, 0<«n/i/j7- 

 ham, V. and without precise locality, Buchanan, 994! 1457!" Mashonaland and 

 Matal)eleland, Bryce ! 



Also in South Africa. 



