522 CLvi. CYPERACEiE (clarke). [Carex. 



the irregularity in the utricle ; some of its nerves are very strong, some very weak, 

 some are continued to the beak, others become obscure in the upper part of the 

 utricle. 



18. C. simensis, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Ahyss. ii. 514. 

 Glabrous, stoloniferous. Stems 2-3 ft. high, with 4-9 spikes. Leaves 

 12-18 .by 1-1 in. Spikes |-2| by \ in. ; terminal male, with utricles in 

 the upper part or to the top ; lower spikes female, often with a few 

 males near the base ; upper peduncles short, lower often remote, then 

 2-4 in. long. Female glumes shorter than the utricles, rusty-.brown or 

 chestnut, elliptic-lanceolate, with a very short mucro or quite muticous. 

 Utricles i in. long or ' rather more, ellipsoid, trigonous, obscurely 

 or slenderly ribbed, glabrous, dotted with red glands, tapering at the 

 top ; beak less than J the length of the utricle, linear-conic, scabrous on 

 the margins, teeth 2, lanceolate, rather short. Nut rather large, 

 sessile, narrowly obovoid, trigonous. — Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 

 295. C. cethiopica, Boott, Carex, iii. 110 partly, i.e. tt. 343, 344, and 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 226; Boeck. in Linnsea, xli. 285 partly; 

 C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 679 partly; 

 Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 152. 



Upper Crulnea. Cameroons: Cameroon Mountain, 7000-10,000 ft., Mann, 

 2099 ! 



XiTile Xiand. Abyssinia : Samen ; on Mount Bachit, Schimper, 1180 ! Bege- 

 meder; Mount Guna, 11,400 ft., Schimper, 1289 ! near Gafat, 8800 ft., Schimper, 

 1298 ! British East Africa : Kuwenzori ; KivatH, 6000-8000 ft., Scott-Mliot, 

 7578! 



Boott has called this " C. cethiopica" and has noted that the spikes are all 

 male at the base. In the true C. cethiopica of Schkuhr (the South Africa plant) 

 the terminal spike is wholly male ; and what is of more importance the lower spikes 

 are not male at the base. In the C. cethiopica of Schkuhr, the female glumes are 

 definitely bristle-tipped and longer than the utricle. 



Whether the present tropical plant be esteemed a species or only a variety of 

 C. cethiopica, it is geographically separable. 



19. C. longepedunculata, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 

 130. Female glumes longer than the utricles, muticous. Utricles^ in. 

 long ; beak not scabrous ; otherwise as C. simensis. 



XMozamb. Slst. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro; near the Noholu cave, 

 10,400 ft., Volkens, 2015 ! 



This has all the spikes female at the base ; and is much nearer C. simensis than 

 either is to C. cethiopica. The lowest remote peduncle is long, as also in C. 

 simensis. 



20. C, petitiana, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Ahyss. ii. 513. Glabrous, 

 stoloniferous. Stems 3 ft. high, with 5-7 spikes. Leaves 2 ft. by J in. 

 Spikes 2-4 in. by \-\ in. ; terminal spike male at the base, female above, 

 sometimes with males at the top. Male glumes J in. long, narrow- 

 lanceolate, muticous, a rich brown. Female glumes as long as the 

 utricles, similar to the males, cuspidate or muticous. Utricles -J in. 

 long, narrow-ellipsoid trigonous, with 8-10 slender nerves, glabrous, 



