/S'cZma.] CLvi. cyperace^ (clarke). 49*^ 



***Qpj£iiYOscLi!:RiA. — Monoecious spikelets none. Lobes of the disc forming a cup 

 liolding the base of the nut ; margin of disc ciliiite. Stout plants. Leaves (and 

 lower bracts) unequally pramorse on the sides near the top. 

 Nut smooth. 



Xut large ; margin of disc densely ciliate . . 39. S. racemosa. 



Nut medium-sized; margin of disc slightly ciliate . 40. S. Vugelii. 

 Nut verrucose, often tubercled .... 41. S. verrucosa. 



*#«*;^CRIULUS. — Female spikelets with no male rudiments, so that the female 

 flower appears terminal. Hypogynous disc merely the stalk of the nut. Rather 

 stout plants, with copious panicles 42. -S. griegifolia. 



1. S. pergraciiiSy Kunth, Enum. ii. ^^54. Glabrous, or nearly so, 

 annual. Stems tufted, 1-2 ft. long, very slender. Leaves 4-12 by 

 .T^j-yV in. Spikelets (many 2-sexual) in clusters of 2—5, -J-J in. long, 

 sessile on a subsimple spike 2 to 6 in. long ; bracts to the clusters ovate, 

 acute, and rarely longer than the clusters. Monoecious spikelet of 

 about 7 glumes ; the 2 lowest empty, the third ^-J iu. long, elliptic- 

 oblong, not acute, dark-brown, carrying the nut ; the upper glumes 

 male or empty. There also occur many male spikelets, similar to the 

 monoecious, except that they are without the 3rd. nut-bearing glume. 

 Stamens 1-3 ; anthers crested. Nut ^V i^^- i^ diam., obovoid, trigonous, 

 white, verrucose or muricate. Style linear, not dilated at the base, 

 caducous ; branches o. Pores on the stalk of the nut very obscure. — 

 Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxviii. 438, and in Flora, 1879, 5G9 ; C. B. Clarke 

 in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 685, and in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. 

 Fl. Afr. V. 673. Hypoporum pergracile, Nees in Edinb. New Phil. 

 Journ. xvii. (1834) 267, and in Wight, Contrib. 118. 



Upper Guinea. Upper Senegal, Lecarcl, 289 I Sierx-a Leone, Afzelius ! Niger 

 Territory : Nupe, in swamps, Barter, 1006 ! 



xrile Xiaxid. British East Africa: Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurthy 24:721 

 Also in India. 



2. S. pulcbella, Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bof. ii. 168. 

 A glabrous, slender annual. Stems 3-8 in. long, setaceous. Leaves as 

 long as the stem (or half as long) setaceous. Inflorescence J-1 by J-J 

 in., denser than in *S'. pe7yracilis, and more or less branched, sub- 

 panicled. Spikelets nearly ^ in. long, ciiestnut-brown, 3-8 on one 

 branch of the inflorescence. Nut ^j^ in. long, obovoid, trigonous, 

 white, transversely muricate- verrucose ; on each face of the trigonous 

 stalk 4 or 5 minute pores are excavated. — C. B. Clarke in Durand <k 

 Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 674 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl, Trop. Afr. 

 ]51 ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 129 ; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. 

 Welw. ii. 134. >S'. Hilsenbergii, Boeck. Cyp. Novae, i. 34, not of Ridley. 



IjO'wer Crulnea. Angola : Huilla ; in the lofty pastures of Empalaca, Wel- 

 ivitsch, 7141 ! River Callanca, Newton, 7 ! 



nSozamb. SQIlst. British Central Africa : Nyasalund ; Shire Highlands, 

 Buchanan, 19 ! and D ! 



3. S. melanotricha, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 511. A hairy 

 4xnnual. Stems 4-24 in. long, slender. Leaves often i-f the length of 



