lii/nchospoi'a.] clvi. cyperace^ (clarke). 48;3 



Spikes clustered, many- flowered. Involucre of one leaf, as long as the 

 corymb. Glumes ovate, acuminate, adpressedly puberulous. Hypo- 

 gynous bristles 3-6, as long as the nut. Nut (immacure) acutely 

 triquetrous, smooth, whitish. 



Upper Guinea. f:>enegambia, Leprteur (ex SteudeL). 



If the nut is really triquetrous, the plant is not a Itynchospora. 



17. CARPHA, R. Br. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pi. iii. 1061 

 (inch ASTEROCHJ^TE, Nees, Benth. et Kook. f., 1. c. 1062). 



Spikeiets with 5-7 glumes, each perfecting 1-3 nuts. Glumes sub- 

 distichous ; 3 lowest empty, fourth containing a bisexual nut- bearing 

 flower, fifth inserted close above the fourth, uppermost sterile. Hypo- 

 gynous bristles 6 or 3, long. Style linear, long, with 3 linear branches, 

 at the base continuous with the nut, persistent. Nut oblong or oblong- 

 ellipsoid, trigonous, at the top pyramidal. — Leaves evolute. Inflor- 

 escence paniculate, not umbelied. 



Species 12, in the Southern Hemisphere, America, Africa and Australia. 



This genus differs t'roui SchoHnus only by the lowest nut-bearinj,' <;luine Ijdving 

 the nexc glume cio:?e over it, not separated by an elongate curved joint of the riiuchilla 

 as is the case in Schaaiius. 



1. C lUmini, (J. B. Clarke. Glabrous. Uhizome short, rather 

 slender. Stems 1-2 ft. long. Leaves up to J the length of the seem, 

 yW in. broad. Panicle (5-12 in. long; lower peduncles axillary carry- 

 ing oblong panicles of many brown spikeiets close together. Spikeiets 

 i in. long, of 6 glumes. Glumes oblong, hardly acute, the 3 lowest 

 empty, the fourth containing a bisexual perfect flower, the fifth smaller 

 and sterile. Hypogynous bristles 6, scabrid with upward-pointing 

 barbs, the 3 inner (petals) as long as the nut, the :> outer (sepals) twice 

 as long. Stamens o, anticous. Nut small, J the length of the glume, 

 hardly at all scabrid, obscurely reticulated. — Oreoyrastls Emini, K. 

 Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 127. 



Wile Xiand. British East Africa : liuweiizori, 10,000 ft., Stiihlmann, 24-39 ! 



This, as above interpreted, differs little from C. Aiiherlli^ Nees, a Bourbon 

 l)lant; but the description (of the same material) by Dr. K. Schumann differs con- 

 siderably. 



18. SCHGENUS, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 1062. 



Spikeiets perfecting 1 or few nuts. Glumes subdistichous ; 3 

 lowest empty, fourth containing a bisexual nut-bearing flower, the 

 rhachilla elongated and curved before the insertion of the fifth glume ; 

 uppermost glumes reduced. Hypogynous bristles various or 0. Style 

 linear, long, with :> linear branches. Nut small, obovoid, trigonous, at 

 the top truncate or pyramidal. — Inflorescence panicled, coxymbose or 

 subcapitate, not umbellate. 



Species, besides the one here described, 58, whereof I is European, 1 North 



