502 CLVi. CYPEiiACE^ (clauke), [Scleina, 



\ erse lines and tubercles ; hypogynons disc 0. — C. B. Clarke in Durand 

 <k Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 673 (multispiculosa) ; K. Schum. in 

 Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 129 ; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. ii. 133. 



Upper Guinea. Niger Territory : Nupe ; in a swamp near Lorn, barter, 

 1349! 



ZtO'wer Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; in meadows on the banks of the River 

 Quipunipunhime, Sobato de Humpata, Wehvitsch, 7140 partly! Pungo Andongo; 

 marshy places near Quibanga, Welwifsch, 7132 ! 



Mozamb. Bist. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Shire Highlands, 

 Buchanan, 1 ! 



22. S. poseoides, Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 170. 

 Nearly glabrous except the leaf-sheaths. Rhizome very slender. 

 Stems 8-10 in. long, slender. Leaves 4-12 by -^^ in. Panicle lJ-3 

 in. long, ovoidj compound, dense, with capillary branches. Spikelets 

 numerous, many solitary, ^-\ in. long, chestnut-brown. Nut minute, 

 verrucose-tubercled ; hypogynous disc 0. — C. B. Clarke in Durand & 

 Schinz, Conspect. FL Afr. v. 674; Pendle in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. 

 iL 134. 



DLo^ver Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; in spongy places at Quilebe, near Huilla^ 

 Welwitseh, 7142! 



Mozamb. Dlst. British Central Africa : Nyasaland, J?wcAa»a/2, 1452b! 



This differs little from S. multispiculata but in the denser panicle. Buchanan's 

 example is imperfect, and may not be -S". poceoides, but it must be of this small 

 group as the ripe nuts show. 



23. S. lithosperma, Sivartz, Prod. 18. Nearly glabrous, except 

 the leaf-sheaths. Rhizome horizontal. Stems 1^-3 ft. long, medium- 

 sized or slender, not tufted. Leaves 6-12 by |-l in. Panicle strag- 

 gling ; the remote axillary peduncles carrying a few-flowered irregular 

 corymb or often only a spike of 1-5 separate spikelets ; lowest bract 

 altogether similar to the highest leaf. Spikelets in small clusters or 

 solitary, J in. long, pale brown marked with green, many moncBcious. 

 Nut ^^^ -^^^ in. long, obovoid or ellipsoid, smooth, white; hypogynous 

 disc hardly any. — Kunth, Enum. ii. 349 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxviii, 

 451 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. FL Brit. Ind. vi. 685, and in Durand & 

 Schinz, Conspect. FL Afr. v. 672; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 0. 

 129; Urban, Symb. Antill. ii. 141. S. puzzolanea,'K.^chuvii. in EngL 

 Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 129. Scirpus lithos2)ermus, Linn. Sp. PL ed. i. 51. 



irile Iiand. British East Africa : Mombasa, Taylor ! 



Mozamb. Blst. German East Africa : Usambara ; Amboni, Hoist, 2792. 



Throughout tropical and subtropical regions. 



24. S. clathrata, A. Eich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 510. A nearly 

 glabrous annual, but in one stem a small slender stolon is seen. Stems- 

 6-12 in. long, rather slender, tufted. Leaves 4-12 by -} in., 3-nerved, 

 mostly with peduncles in their axils (i.e. they may be taken as bracts).. 

 Peduncles carrying 1-4 female flowers, the lowest distant 2-5 in.^ 



