506 CLvi. CYPERACEiE (clarke). [Scleria, 



smooth, white ; disc obpyramidal, truncated, with a narrow, rusty 

 brown rim, hardly 3-lobed. — Kunth, Enum. ii. 35(5 ; C. B. Clarke in 

 Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 691, and in Durand & Schinz, Oonspect. 

 Fl. Afr. V. 673 ; Boeck. in Linnaea, xxxviii. 492 {orizoides), S. coriacea^ 

 G. Bertol. in Eendiconti Accad. Bologna, 1854, 34, and in Mem. Accad. 

 Scienz. Istit. Bologna, ser. 1, v. 474, t. 27, fig. 1-3, not of Liebm. 

 S. Bertolonii, Martens in Flora, 1857, 570. 



SCozamb. Bist. German East Africa : Zanguebar, Kirk, 4 ! Portuguese East 

 Africa : Mozambique, Bertoloni. 



Also in India, Malaya and Tropical Australia. 



35. S. melanomphala, Kunth^ Enum. ii. 345. Robust, hairy^ 

 or more often glabrate, except the inflorescence. Rhizome creeping,. 

 iV~s ^^^- ^^ diam. Stems 2-3 ft. long, very scabrous or nearly smooth 

 on the 3 angle?. Leaves up to 24 by \ in., very scabrous on the 

 margins ; sheaths triquetrous or narrowly winged. Inflorescence 

 straggling 1-2 ft., compound, the partial panicles (often long peduncled) 

 dense, oblong or almost linear. Spikelets 1 -sexual, \-\ in. long, 

 commonly green broadly marked with chestnut, but frequently green, 

 sometimes pale brown. Nut J in. long exclusive of the disc, ovoidy 

 smooth, white, the tip often black. Hypogynous disc obpyramidal, 

 large, black-red, glandular, the margin triangular, yellow ; lobes 0^ 

 except so far as represented by the margin. — Boeck. in Linnsea, 

 xxxviii. 476 ; Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 171 ;. 

 C B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 672, inch the 

 var., and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 296 ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 

 129 ; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 310; Rendle in Cat. Afr. 

 PI. Welw. ii. 134. ^S. macrmiiha, Boeck. in Flora, 1879, 572, not 

 Boeck. in Flora, 1858, 647. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone ; near Franziga, Scott -JElliot, 5046 ! 



XVile £and. British East Africa : Niamniam ; in a swamp at Huuh (Hoo) 

 l{iver, Schweinfurth, 3746 ! Uganda; Buddu, Scott-Elliot, 7482! 



laO'weT Cruinea. Lower Congo : Stanley Pool, 900 ft.. Hens, B, 67 ! Kisantu,. 

 Gil let, 3211 323! Angola: Huilla ; by streams liear Lopolio, Wehvitsch, 7144 L 

 l*ungo Andongo ; marshy banks of streams near Quilongo, Tf^elwitsch, 7145 ! 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State, Detoevre, 712a ! Nlempu, Butaye ! 



nCozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Xya«aland ; Shire Highlands, 

 Buchanan, 51 1 Mount Zomba Plateau, 5000-6000 ft., Whyte ! Tat.ganyika Plateau 

 at Fort Hill, 4300-6000 ft., Whyie I and without precise locality, Buchanan, 691 ! 



Also in South Africa and Madagascar. 



'I he black apex of the nut often fixes this species at a glance, but it is some- 

 times perfectly white. 



36. S. spicseforxnis, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 556. Somewhat 

 hairy. Rhizome horizontal, ^ in. in diam. Stems 10-24 in. long, ^ in. 

 in diam., leaf-sheaths 3-\vinged. LeavCvS 8 by ^ in. Partial panicles 

 oblong, dense, 2 in. long, on very shortly exserted remote axillary 

 peduncles. Spikelets exceeding \ in. in length, dusky brown. Nut y^ in.. 

 in diam., globose-ellipsoid, white, smooth, with about 40 longitudinal 



