480 CLVI. CYPERACE^ (clark). [^Rijuchospora, 



pale brown; beak narrow-conic almost linear ; style very long, at tip 

 minutely 2-iid. — C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. 

 V. 653, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 2U7 ; Urban, Symb. Antill. ii. 101). 

 lihynchospm'a cyperoides, Mart, in Denkschr. Acad. Wiss. Muench. vi. 

 149 ; Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append, iii. 33. U. spm^ganioides^ 

 Bojer, Hort. Maurit. 386. R. polycephala, Kunth, Enum. ii. 291 ; 

 Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxvii. 552. R. Arechavalatce and R. spluerocephala y 

 Boeck. Cyp. Novae, i. 24. Schoenus cyperoides, Swartz, Prod. 19. 

 Mariscxts pilluliferuS; G. Beit, in Rendicosti Istit. Bologna, 1853-4, 33, 

 and in Mem. Accad. Scienz. Istit. Bologna, v. 460, t. 24, cf. Boeck. in 

 Flora, 1861, 336. 



Upper Guinea. Guinea, J*er^ / GoUl Coast : Axim, ex GuericJi. 



Jtovrer Cruinea. Gennaa Soutli-West Africa : Aralolaiul ; at Olukonda^ 

 Schinz, 373 ! • 



Mozaxnb* 9ist. Mozambique, ex Bertoloni. 



Frequent in Natal and the Mascarene Islands. Very common in America fron> 

 Mexico to Montevideo. 



4. R. aurea, Vahl, Emim. ii. 229. Ilobust, nearly glabrous ; 

 stolons 0. Stem 3-6 ft. long with nodes throughout its length. Leaves 

 1-2 ft. by \ in. Panicle often 12-16 in. long, with lower axillary distant 

 corjmbs 2-5 in. in diam. bearing frequently 100-200 spikelets ; lowest 

 bract similar to the highest leaf. Spikelets mostly in clusters of 3-10, 

 brown, \ in. long, lanceolate, perfecting 1 nut. Hypogynous setae 6, as 

 long as the nut, scabrid, with upward-pointing barbs. Nut \ the length 

 of the glume, \ in. long without the beak, obovoid, flattened, brown^ 

 smooth or obscurely transversely wavy, sometimes with a notch or 

 hollow on each side ; beak as long at least as the nut, narrow-conic, 

 grooved on one side ; style very long, at the tip subentire or obscurely 

 2-fid.— Beauv. Fl. Oware, ii. 39, t. 81, fig. 2 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 670, in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 653 ; 

 and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 268 ; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 

 309; Urban, Symb. Antill. \\. 110; Bendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 

 131. Rhynchospora aurea, R. Br. Prod. 230; Kunth, Enum. ii. 293; 

 Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 555 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxvii. 626, in 

 Flora, 1879, 569, and in Engl. Gazelle Reise, Bot. 17 ; Ridley in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 165. R. siirinamensis, Nees in Linnsea, ix. 

 297; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 127. Scirpus corymbosusy 

 Linn. Amoen. Acad. iv. 303. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Micliclin ! Senegambia, Heudelot, 343! 3441 

 587! Rio Nunez, Heudelot, 687! Sierra Leone: Regent, Scott-Elliot, 38611 

 Vogel, 129 ! Liberia : Monrovia, Naumann ! Lagos : Abbeckuta ; Irvivg ! 

 Owiire, Beauvois ! Old Calal ar ; Rohh ! Camercons : banks of the river. Maun,. 

 776! 



Nile Xiand. British East Africa : Jur; Jur Ghatta?, Sckweinfnrthl360 I 



XiO'wer Guinea. Lower Congo: Stanley Pool, iJOO ft., Hens, 13, 44! Kisantn, 

 Oillet, 504 ! 35.6: ! Smith ! Angobi : Pun<:o Ai.dongo ; ai d wiibout precise Iccalitv, 

 marshes at Qiiisonde on the River Cuanza, Welwitsch, 6844 ! marshes of Lagoa de 

 Quibinda, Weltvitsc?i,6845 I 



