Utricle often niiaateiv) hairy. 

 Utricle more th^i ^ in. ]oa^ 



nnt stalked. 

 Utricle about ^ in. loos, e-ilipsoid, 

 Panioles oa axilkry petiaaclesr open 



Piiiicles on axillarv pedimcles, tiena^ oidon^ 

 Spites linear-cylmdric, 1 in. Lon^ at least. 



Utricle exceeding :| in. in loigt^ Esesr-Iauioeolate 16. C. JakaatamuL 

 Utricle ^^—4 in. Ions, elHpsoid .... 17. C HtUit- 



"•■Stem with 5-10 eloosure cjlimfric spikes: tcr:iiinal 

 spite male at the base, with (nearly alwuys Titriv.'Ies 

 in tb.e upper part. 

 Lower spikes male at the base. 



Utricles i-\ in. long-., scabroas on the "betii 

 Utricles ^ in. Ions, smoota on ui.e beat 

 Lower spites female at the bsise : ntricles ;*^ in. Ions. 



Beat of utr'cle minate. sabenrire . . . 2IX C^^efHiaaA. 



Beat 4— i the letigth of the ntrldes, MM . . 21. C JlmrierL 



-^Stem. with 5-12 elongate cylLndrie spite« : terminal 

 spite whoLIr mile, or (^rarely) with some iitricles a£ 

 the base. 

 Utricles straight, njirrowed upwards into the fc^?at . 22. C. 

 Utricles carved. inSited upwaris. s-Jiez-Iy contracted. 



into the minute beak ... 23. C 



1. C. monostachya, A. Eick. T^mt. Fl, Abi^ss. iL ol^. Glafaravsw 



Rhizonie siort. STems mfted, >>— ff in. long, triquetroos, roogh oa^e 

 angles : basal sheaths chescnat-red. Leaves cfren as long a^ the stesn^ 

 hardly J- in. broad, rriquerrous in the upper part. Spike 1 on. eack 

 stem, li by J in., m:\le at the top. female below, from chestnut -red to 

 ferrugineo us -brown. Female glumes ^J in. long, lanceolate, acute: 

 margins scarioas. Anthers 4 in. long, linear. Utricle \^ without beak) 

 nearly i in. long, narrowly obovoid. obtuse, very much compressed, 

 indistinctly nerved, glabrous, rarely slightly seabrid ; b^sik exactly 

 linear, ^i^ the length of the utricle, very shortly spht : rhachilla of 

 the rudimentary spikelet linear, green, included in one margin of th«- 

 utricle, often as long as the nut. 2s'ut narrowly ellipsoid, fattened, 

 much narrower than the utricle ; style ^ as long as the nut. branches -, 

 much longer than the nut, red-brown, conspicuously exserted. — Boott, 

 Carex. iL SO. t. i-1 : Boeck in Linna?a, xxxix. oU ; Engl. Hv-H:hgebirgsfl. 

 Trop. Afr. 151 ; C. B. Clarke in Durand Jt ScMnz, Conspect.^ R. Air. 

 v. 687 : K. Schum. in Engl. Pd. Ost-Afr. C. lf\>. T- pani^tkii, Runse. 

 Suppl. Schkuhr's Riedgr. So in note. C trwiAetri/oiM, Boeck. in £ngl. 

 Jahrb. vii. 279 ; Ohver in Trans. Linn. Soc.^ser. f. Bot. ii 5.33 : Engi 

 Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 15o. ruciaia cf»/ywa, Hochst. in Schimper, 

 Exsicc. 687. 



Wile Xiand. Aby5*ini.^: S<»men ; Monnt Silke, St-iiwi^e'r. (S>7 ! Xoant Bacl>i», 

 Si.-\imver .' Btj^meJer : Mount Goaa. 131,100 ft., Sciim^r, 1-413 1 and wichoof 

 preci>e kx^ility. Schimp^r, S3! 



ICoxamb. Blst. Oiennan East Africa: KiHrnanjaro, lf.:K'0 ft.. Ujc-rf x 

 11461 JoAiistom, 1201 



