Subgen. III. Pycreus. 367 



var. y. aberdarensis Kükenth. comb. nova. — C. aberdarensis Kükenth. in Notizbl. 

 Bot. Gart. u. Mus. Berlin IX. (1925) 301. — Folia 2 — 3 mm lata culmum superantia. Brac- 

 teae anthelam superantes. Spiculae magis confertae. Squamae marginibus albo-hyalinae. 



Trop. Ostafrika : Kenya-Kolonie, Mt. Aberdare auf einer Lichtung im Bergwald 

 bei der Kinangop Forest Station (Rob. E. und Th. C. E. Fries n. 2911!). 



328. C. polystachyos Rottb. Descr. et Icon. (1773) 39, t. XI., fig. 1 (vidi sp. auth.!); 

 Vahl, 1. c. 315; R. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. (1810) 214; Nees in Wight, Contrib. Bot. Ind. 

 (1834) 75; Kunth, 1. c. 13; Steud. 1. c. 8; Boeck. in Linnaea XXXV. (1868) 477; Benth. 

 Fl. austral. VII. (1878) 261; C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. XX. (1883) 280 et 

 XXI. (1884) 51, t. III, flg. 27; Boiss. Fl. Orient. V. (1884) 365; Ridley in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. 2. ser. Bot. II. (1884) 127; Arcangeli, Comp. Fl. Ital. ed. 2. (1894) 75; Suringar, 



I. c. (1898) 61, t. II, flg. 13; Komarov, Fl. Manshur. I. (1901) 333; Koorders, Ex- 

 kursionsfl. Java I. (1911) 186 et IV. 2. (1922) 85, fig. 196; Kükenth. in Englers 

 Bot. Jahrb. LIX. (1924) 42; C. Osten in Anal. Mus. Montevideo ser. 2a. III. entr. 



II. (1931) 127. — C. odoratus L. Herb, pro parte, sed vix Spec. pl. ed. 1. (1753) 

 46 p. p. et ed. 2. (1762) 68 p. p. (cf. C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXX. [1894] 306). 

 — C. pantcMfet«« Rottb. Descr. et Icon. (1773) 40; Vahl, 1. c. 333; Steud. I.e. 9; 

 Small, Man. Southeast. Fl. (1933) 146. — C. faacicularia Lam. 111. I. (1791) 144, 

 t. 38, flg. 2; Desf. Fl. Atl. I. (1798) 44. — C. acopellatus L. C. Rieh, in Act. Soc. Hist. 

 Nat. Paris I. (1792) 106; Vahl, Eclog. Amer. II. (1798) 7 et Icon. pl. Amer. (1798) t. 12. — 

 C. olidus Vahl, Enum. pl. II. (1806) 333; Steud. 1. c. 9. — C. brizaeus Presl, Rel. Haenk. I. 

 (1830) 168 (excl. syn.). — C. flavidus Bojer, Hort. Maurit. (1837) 380 (nomen). — C. brunneus 

 Hook, et Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. (1841) 99; non Swartz. — C. Sondert J. A. Schmidt, Beitr. 

 Fl. Cap Verd. Ins. (1852) 162; Steud. 1. c. 8. — C. teretifractua Steud. in Zoll. Verz. Ind. 

 Archip. (1854) 62. — C. teretifructua Steud. Synops. Cyper. (1855) 3. — ? C. complanatua 

 Steud. 1. c. 3 p. p. — C. elongatua Steud. 1. c. 11. — C. vulgaria ß. teretifructua Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. bat. III. (1859) 256. — Pycreua polyatachyoa Beauv. Fl. d' Oware II. (1807) 48, t. 

 LXXXVI, flg. 2; Nees in Linnaea IX. (1835) 283; C. B. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. India 

 VI. (1893) 592, in Durand et Schinz, 1. c. 540, in Thiselt.-Dyer, Fl. capens. VII. (1897) 157, 

 in Fl. trop. Afr. VIII. (1902) 296, in Urb. Symb. antill. II. 1. (1900) 17, in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. XXXVI. (1903) 205 et in Philipp. Journ. Sc. II. 2. (1907) 80; Durand et Schinz, 

 fitud. Fl. Congo I. (1896) 281; Rendle, Catal. Afr. pl. Welw. II. (1899) 108; E. G. Camus 

 in Lecomte, Fl. Indo-Chine VII. (1912) 34; Nakai in Bot. Magaz. Tokyo XXVI. (1912) 

 201; Domin in Bibl. Bot. Heft 85. (1915) 416; Chermezon in Ann. Mus. colon. Mars. 

 XXVII. 3. s6r. VII. (1919) 71, Catal. PI. Madag. (1931) 15 et in Bull. Soc. bot. Fr. 

 LXXXI. (1934) 262; Schönland in Bot. Surv. South Afr. Mem. 3. (1922) 22, t. VI; 

 Uittien in Pulle, Fl. Surin. I. (1934^ 78 et in Lanjouw, Addit. (1935) 226. — Pycreua 

 paniculatua Nees in Linnaea IX. (1835) 283. — Pycreua odoratua Urb. Symb. antill. 

 II. (1900) 164 et IV. (1903) 110; C. E. C. Fischer in Gamble, FI. Madras IX. (1931) 

 1627. — Chlorocyperua polyatachyua Rikli in Pringsheims Jahrb. wiss. Bot. XXVII. 

 (1895) 563. — Rhizoma abbreviatum, fibrillis numerosis. Culmi plures dense caespitosi 

 20 — 50 cm alti compresso-trigoni rigidi vel graciliores inferne foliati. Folia culmo breviora 

 2 — 3 mm lata carinato-plana cinereo-viridia rigidula, vaginae brunneo-purpureae rubro- 

 punctatae. Bracteae 3—6 anthelam superantes. Anthela composita pluriradiata sive 

 capitato-contracta compacta sive explicata radiis ad 4 cm longis polystachyis. Spiculae 

 fasciculatim congestae suberectae lineares acutae 8 — 16 mm longae ly^mm latae sub- 

 compressae 20 — 40-florae. Rhachilla tenuis flexuosa statu juvenili anguste alata. Squamae 

 subdense imbricatae 1^/2 — 2 mm longae ovato-ellipticae acutiusculae ferrugineae vel 

 fuscae vel stramineo-luteae muticae vel e carina viridi trinervi brevissime mucronatae. 

 Stamina 2, raro 1, antherae lineares breves, connectivum brevissime productum. Stylus 

 longus exsertus profunde bifidus. Nux vix 34 squamae aequans subobovato-oblonga vel 

 mere oblonga compresso-biconvexa apice subtruncata brevissime apiculata brunnea demum 

 nigricans nitida dense punctulata. 



