i}04r c'Lvi. CYPERACE.E (clarke). [Sclet'ia. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 662 ! Niger Territory : Xupe, Barter, 

 1042 ! 



ITile Iiand. IJritish East Africa: Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2389 

 partly ! 2500 ! 



27. S. globonux, C. B. Clarke in Durand d: Sc/miz, Conspect. Fl. 

 Afr. V. (171. Leaves with spreading hairs or glabrate. Nut large, 

 globose, tessellate, margins of the reticulations glandular or minutely 

 hairy ; .3 lobes of the disc subquadrate ; otherwise as S. glandiformis. — 

 S. tessellata, Boeck. in Flora, 1879, 571, not of Willd. 



TTile Kand. British East Africa : Jur ; .lur Ghattas. Schioeinfurth, 2560 ! 



S. tessellata, Willd., is a common plant in India. All the species of the 

 TessellatcB series are very closely allied ; as to the present plant, it appears doubt- 

 fully distinct from S. glandiformis. 



28. S. nyasensiSy C. B. Clarke. Nearly glabrous. Stems 1-2 ft- 

 long. Leaves 4*-8 by \ in. Lowest peduncle remote, often exserted, 

 1-4 in., filiform, flexuose and nodding, divided with 8-15 spikelets. 

 Spikelets \ in. long, oblong, from straw-coloured to chestnut. Nut 

 y^^ in. long (considerably smaller than in the preceding species), cylindric- 

 ellipsoid, tessellate, white or often dusky, nearly glabrous; disc nearly 

 truncate, the division into 3 lobes obscure. 



IWozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Xyasiland ; near Mount Sochi, 

 3000 It., Kirkl Mount Zoniba, 4000-6000 ft-, Wkyte ! Mount Malosa, 4O00- 

 6000 ft., Whyte ! 



Near S. clathrata, A. Rich., but the inflorescence much more copious in spikelets, 

 and the nut smaller. 



29. S. coxnplanata, Boeck. in Flora^ 1879, 571. Stem 3 ft. long, 

 minutely rough from rusty downwards-pointing points. Nut small, 

 subglobose, coarsely tessellated, pale or discoloured bluish ; otherwise 

 as aS'. foliosa. — C. B. Clarke in Durand k Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 

 670. ' 



Wile I<and. British E;ist Africa: Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2389 

 partly ! 



Perhaps only a variety of S. foliosa or of S. glandiformis : the nut is sensibly 

 smaller. 



30. S. schimperiana, Boeck. in Linncea, xxxviii. 46G. Slightly 

 hairy or glabrate. Rhizome 0. Stems 10 in. long. Leaves 12 by 

 \ in., tapering at the tip. Lowest axillary peduncle exserted 1-2 in., 

 flexuose, slender, thickened triangular at the top, carrying 3-5 nnts. 

 Female spikelets \ in. long, chestnut-brown. Nut large, depressed- 

 globose, smooth, white ; 3 lobes of the disc small, oblong, obtuse, pallid. 

 — Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 150; C. B. Clarke in Durand k Schinz, 

 Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. G74. 



Wile ]Land. Abyssinia: Begemeder; Senka Berr, 7500 ft., Schimper, 1235! 

 Var. hypoxis, C. B. Clarke. Leaves \ in. broad and upwards, very obtuse at 

 the tip. Lover peduncles s^oiiter. — S. hypoxis, Boeck. in Linnaea, xxxviii. 465. 

 irile ILand. Gallabat : region of Matamma, Schiveinfurth, 2054 ! 



