Rynchospora.'] clvi. cyperace^e (clarke). 481 



South Central. Congo Free State : Moubuttu ; Mmizi, Schiveinfarth, 3495 ! 

 and without precise locality, Demeuse, 134 ! 



XVIozamb. ]>ist. Zanzibar, Hildehrandt , 1232 ! 

 Throughout the warmer regions of both hemispheres. 



5. R. Candida, C. B. Clarke in Durand d- Schinz. Conspect. Fl. Afr. 

 V. G5'3. Nearly glabrous. Stolons slender, clothed by ovate-lanceolate 

 striate dnsky-straw-coloured scales, hardening into creeping rhizomes 

 Stems 8-20 in. long, rather slender with distant nodes throughout their 

 length. Leaves often nearly as long as the stem, -^^-^-^ in. broad. Corymb 

 terminal, lax, of 1-16 spikelets, somewhat level-topped, with a smaller 

 remote axillary corymb sometimes added ; pedicels rather rigid, with 

 one spikelet. Spikelets \ in. long, ovoid, very white, with n)any (or ?> 

 at least) nut-bearing flowers: Glumes numerous, ovate, obtuse, densely 

 imbricate in many spirals, deciduous seriatim from the lowest (empty 

 included), outer concave nerveless, inner somewhat keeled. Hypogynous 

 bristles 0. Style linear, longer than the nut ; branches 2, linear, longer 

 than the style. Nut very small, about ^ the length of the glume, 

 biconvex, round, sessile, yellow-brown, transversely wav}^ ; style-base 

 large, saddle-shaped, as broad as the nut, persistent. — Rendle in Cat. 

 Afr. PI. Welvv. ii. 132. R. adscendens, C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, 

 Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 652. Psilocarya Candida, Nees in Mart. Fl. 

 Bras. ii. i. 117. Khynchospora Candida, Boeck. in Linnfea, xxxvii. 605; 

 K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 127. Dichroinena Candida, Ridley 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 149. Pachymitra candula, Nees ex 

 Boeck. 1. c, 606. 



Upper Guinea. Lagos, Barter, 20178 ! Old Calabar, Rohh ! ' 



Ijower Crulnea. Lower Congo : Kisuntu Gillet, 522 ! Kimuetiza, Qillet, 

 1772 ! Angola : Huilla ; damp places near Monino, W^elwitsch, 6840 ! 



XMlozamb. Sist. German East Africa : betwe;^n Lake Tanganyika and Lake 

 Rukwa, 6000 it., Nnft I Briti-h Central A.ri'ica : Nyasaland ; Shire Highlanci-S 

 Buchanan, 5 I 



Also in Madagascar, Guiana and Brazil. 



6. R. Baicrantha, Vahl, Emmi. ii. 231 j^a'f'tll/- Glabrous, slender. 

 Roots iibrous. Stems tufted, 4-16 in. long, with distant nodes through- 

 out their length. Leaves 4-8 by -^^—-^ in- Panicle oblong, usually 

 compound, with divaricate capillary branches and pedicels. Spikelets 

 TTo-yV in. long, ovoid, each perfecting 1 nut. Hypogynous bristles 0. 

 Style as long as the nut ; branches 2, linear, longer than the style. 

 Nut Jq in. long, sessile, obovoid, flattened, yellow-brown^ with 4-5 strong 

 transverse wrinkles ; style-base saddle-shaped, as broad as the nut, 

 much depressed. — C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. 

 v. 654 ; Urban, Symb. Antill. ii. 117. Rhynchospora tnia-antha, Roem. 

 & Schultes, Syst. Veg. ii. 84 partly, not of Mant. 45 ; Boeck. in Linnneji, 

 xxxvii. 608. Zosterospei'mum gracile, Desv. in Hamilt. Prod. Tnd. 

 Occid. 14 ; Kunth, Enum. ii. 536. Psilocarya Teneriffce, Torrey in Ann. 

 Lyceum New York, iii. 862 in note. Dichroinena micrantha. Kunth, 



