520 CLVi. CYPERACJSiE (clarke). [Carex. 



14 in. long, rather slender. Basal leaves many, 20 by -f\ in., tough, 

 ;^-nervecl. Panicle 9 in. long, thin, of few peduncles ; lowest peduncle 

 <) by 2 in., almost capillary, with delicate little-divided branches .and 

 14 spikes; bracts overtopping the inflorescence. Spikes | by i in., 

 very slender, with 8 utricles, male at the top. Female glumes ovate, 

 acuminate, aristate, about ^ the length of the utricle, glabrous, 3-5- 

 nerved on the back, yellowish-green, very thin, distant. Utricle (beak 

 included) ^— i in. long ; beak longer than the small oblong-ellipsoid 

 yellow-green glabrous delicate utricle, nearly linear, scabrous with 

 2 short teeth. Nut ellipsoid, trigonous, filling the utricle. — C. cruciata ? 

 Boott in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 225 ; C B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, 

 Gonspect. Fl. Afr. v. 681. C.jilicina'^ Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 

 152 in obs. 



liower ii'Uiuea. Isle of St. Thomas : summit of the peak, Matin ! 



Tliis is i;ot rieiir any form of C. cruciata, Nees ; it may be a state of C.filicina, 

 Nees; but lio Indiau example of C.Jilicina has such very slender peduncles and 

 utricles. 



. 13. C spicaio-pamcuiata, C. B. Clarke in Durand d' Schinz, 

 Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 690. Glabrous, except the panicle-branches and 

 utricles. Stems 2-3 ft. long. Leaves 18 by ^-J in. Inflorescence up 

 to 16 by 4 in., of 4-7 axillary peduncled compound pyramidal panicles; 

 panicle-branches densely pilose; spikes 50-150 to a stem, |^ in. long, 

 ovoid in fruit, with 6-8 utricles, male at the top. Female glumes ovate, 

 acuce, mucronate, as long as the utricles, bright ferrugiueous-brown, 

 glabrous, striate for nearly their whole breadth. Utricle (nearly ripe) 

 green, \ in. long (beak included), ellipsoid, contracted into a beak 

 hardly J its own length, 12-15-ribbed, minutely hispid from the top to 

 below the middle, straight; beak scabrous, with 2 lanceolatiB teeth; 

 nut ellipsoid, black, filling the utricle. — C. B. Clarke in Dyer, Fl. Cap. 

 vii. 304. 



IVI.o:iiaixio> Uist. German East Africa : Kannington ! 



Also ill South Africa and the Mascarene Islands. 



There also may be conspccific with Hannington's plant Scott-Elliot's 6899 

 (collected in Mau District, British East Africa, at an elevation of 7000 ft.), with 

 hairy utricles; and Schimjjer 1314? (collected in Abyssinia at Senka Berr), exceed- 

 ingly young. 



14. C. Steuaaeri, Boeck. in Linncm^ xl. 364., Glabrous except 

 the minutely scabrous panicle-branches and utricles. Rhizome stout. 

 Stems 2-41 f^, long, robust. Leaves 2 ft. by J in., stout. Panicle 11 

 by 2 in., the partial panicles narrowly oblong, erect, dense, chestnut or 

 deep brown ; bracts overtopping the panicle. Spikelets f by ^ in., 

 with 6-8 utricles, male at the top. Female glumes elliptic-lanceolate, 

 sometimes mucronate, rather shorter than the utricles, brown or chest- 

 nut, hardly striate except near the keel, minutely hispid over the top 

 of the back. Utricle exceeding \ in. long, linear-lanceolate, triquetrous, 

 densely hispid, beak about J the length of the utricle, linear, very 

 hispid, deeply split at least on the convex face. Nut -^^ in. long, 



