760 



artificial reservoirs. In Jamaica it is fairly plentiful^ some tanks 

 in the centre of the Island having been observed thickly 

 covered (I.c). 



CYPERACEAE. 



Kyllingia, Rottb. 



Kyllingia erecta 



p. 274. 



n. Trop. Afr. VIII. 



Vernac, name. — Turari (Lagos, Dawodu). 



Lagos, Nnpe, Burutu in Nigeria and in other parts of Upper 

 Guinea, in Mozambique and in South Africa. 



The creeping rhizomes, sweet scented, used medicinally, 

 Lagos (Dawodu, Herb. Kew). *' Sweet scented " is also the descrip- 

 tion on a specimen from B.E. Africa (CoL Porter, May 1910). 

 Found on the river httoral, average height 1-2 ft. Burutu 

 (Parsons, Herb. Kewl. in swamns. Nune ^Barter Hftrb Xpw^ 



JuNCELLUS, C. B. Clarke. 

 Juncellus alopecuroides, (7. B. Clarke; FL Trop. Afr. VIIL 



p. 307. 



—Rottb. Descr. t. 8, f . 2 {Cyperits alopecuroides) ; Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xxi. t. 2, f. 12 (0. alopecuroides). 



Bornu (Vogel. Fl. Trop. Afr. I.e.) in N. Nigeria, and found 

 also in Senegambia, Cape Verde Islands, Nile Land — Kordofan 

 (Kotschy, 1842, Herb. Kew), etc., in Angola, Nyasaland, and in 

 North Africa, the Mascarene Islands, India, Malaya, Queensland. 



Stems solitary, l|-3 ft. long (Clarke, I.e.). 



See under Cyperus exaltatus for uses, etc., in association with 



C exaltatus^ var. dives. 



Cyperus, Linn. 



Cyperus articulatus, Linn,\ Fl. Tron. Afr. VIIL d. 336. 



IlL—VaX. de Beauv. Fl 



97, f. 2 {G. 



ICtiS 



Vernac. names, — Kajiji (Hausa, Dalziel) ; Chasegj (Arabia 

 Barbey); Adrue (W. Indies, Mus. Guide). 



Old Calabar, Rivers Niger and Benue, Lake Chad, Cameroons 

 on the Gold Coast, Senegal and widely distributed in tropica' 



warm 



Tuberous roots, fragrant, Tsild and cultivated in Bornu and 

 planted near houses in Munchi; much used as a perfume for 



clothin 



cultivated in 

 sweet-smellin 



Hausa 



perfumery (ChevaUer, Bull. Soc. Nat. d'Accl, 1912, p. 346) ; stems 

 used for making mats, Lagos (Dawodu, Herb. Kew) and in Senegal 



