512 CLVi. CYPERACILE (clarke). [EHosj^ora^ 



stems hairy. Inflorescence much less copious. 



Stems with 4-7 spikes. Hypogyuous hairs exces- 

 sively fine 4:. E. Oliveri. 



Stems with about 30 spikes. Hypogynous bristles 



stiff, scabrid . . . . . . . 5. U. villosula. 



1. E. pilosa, ^en^A. in Hook. Ic. PI. xiv. 30, t. 1342. Minutely and 

 thinly haii^^. Base of stem decumbent, 2-3 by J in. including the densely 

 packed leaf -bases. Stems 1-2 ft, long, triquetrous, glabrous. Leaves 8-12 

 by \ in. ; sheaths triquetrous, mouth entire and closed by a depressed 

 rounded ligule as in most Sclerias. Panicle 4-12 by 1-3 in., the lowest 

 peduncle remote; peduncles often 4-10 from each axil, capillary, some 

 again paniculately divided. Spikes ovoid, \-\ in. long, straw-coloured, 

 of 6-20 spikelets, solitary ; peduncle to the spike ^V~2 ^^- '■> bracts to 

 the spikelets ovate, acuminate,^ shortly mucronate. Spikelets -^ in. 

 long. Nut j^^ in. long; hypogynous set?p J the length of the nut, 

 exceedingly slender, nearly simple. — C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, 

 Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. G7('>. Trilepis pilosa, Boeck. in Linnaea, xxxix. 

 10. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast : Afram Plains, Johnson, 708 ! Lagos : Isheri, 

 Lagos Government, 11 \ interior of western 'La.gos, Rotvland ! Niger Territory: 

 Nupe, £arter, 1560 ! 



Var. ^ longipes, C. B, Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 676. 

 Spikes rather larger, purple-brown, bracts to the spikelets more mucronate ; 

 peduncles to the spikes longer, sometimes up to 3 in. long. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : " common on bare rocky gneiss, eaten by 

 deer," Scott-Mliot, 5644 ! 



2. E. abyssinica, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 508. Stems com- 

 pactly tufted, perennial, 1-2 ft. high, compressed at the base, round- 

 trigonous upwards, glabrous. Leaf-sheaths very stout, straw-coloured^ 

 much imbricated, strongly striate, split as in grasses with a ring of 

 minute hairs in the mouth. Leaves 4-16 by 4 in., nearly smooth, 

 tough, much rolled up in the dry state. Panicle 8-14 in. long, with 

 usually several peduncles arising from each sheath; these peduncles 

 3-f) in. long often carrying narrow panicles, nearly smooth. Spikes 

 \-\ in. long, ovoid or ellipsoid, pale-brown or brow^n ; bracts to 

 spikelets ovate, acuminate, sometimes mucronate. Spikelets \-\ in. 

 long. Nut including the beak \-\ in. long, long attenuate from an 

 ovoid base, smooth, more or less scabrous on the 3 angles of the beak; 

 hypogynous hairs about J the length of the nut (beak included), 

 numerous, simple. — Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 166 ; 

 C. B. Clarke in Purand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 676; Engl. 

 Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 150 ; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 132. 

 Rynchospora trigyna, Hochst. in Flora, 1841, i. Intell. 21. Trilepis 

 ahyssinica, Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxix. 9. 



XTile Iiand. Abyssinia : Tigre ; Mount Semayata, ScMmjper, 233 ! Begemeder ? 

 Anadehr, 7800 ft., ScUmper, 578 ! 



Iiower Guinea. Angola : Loanda, 1000 ft., Welwitsch, 7157 ! Pungo 



