16 CYPERACEZ NOVE. 
reading involucral leaves, 4 in. in length. The spikelets are. 
sprea 
crowded together into a loose head; they are white, and } an in. 
in length. The glumes (1 line long) are rather broad, and three- 
ribbed ; the ribs aia: distant. The nut is very eM oe is not 
quite ripe. Beinn affinity of oe plant is Bipes C. proteino 
: —_ culmo singulo, sbeagehe fguebie 
basi taihane eelabad Miroell foliis pluribus glaucis cul- 
mum superantibus, late-lineari-acuminatis, marginibus et carina 
—— involucralibus 4 patentibus vel reflexis linearibus acumi- 
natis glaucis basi vix sting capitulo singulo ovato, spiculis 
soo oo parvis, squa inatis 
umin rvo, mvaibiatviatis dorso albo marginibus scariosis 
Bisis trifido ‘len gaad ulo brunnescente exserto caryopsi (immatars) 
oblonga triquetra. 
Congo, Christian Smith. 
A small plant, with the habit of a Kyllinga, 8 in. in height, 
with stiff glaucous leaves, _ a small ovate white capitulum, 
4 + of an in. in length. The spikelets are very small and flattened, 
vaginatis ste linearibu ecidis culmos superantibus, va- 
ginis integris ore scariosis hoor eo-punctatis, involucralibus 
4 linearibus reflexis uno longissimo apice scabridis, spicis 3, arcte 
gis 
congestis sessilibus, spiculis sean: allipticis turgidulis parvis 
u oris, eee 8 — us ovatis, superioribus oe 
carinatis 14 costa viridi lateribus fulvis sanguineo- 
punctatis, stylo pli profunde & trifido complanato janet exserto 
caryopsi (immatura) oblonga trique 
adagascar, Hilsenberg & Bojer. 
The affinity of this plant is with C. flavus Bekler non Presl 
Mariscus flavus Vahl.), from which it is distinguished by its small 
ovate capitulum, little spikelets, and very long scarious vagine, 
like those of C. dubius Rottb., of which it has much the habit. 
The culms are 9 in. in h eight; the vagine 4 in. long; longest 
involucral bract, 4 
The foll Ai iain occur in Madagascar, but are not included 
in Mr. C. Clarke’s list in vol. xx. of the ‘Journal of the 
Linnean cist ty’:—C. dichrostachys Hochst., Arikafina, South 
Betsileo, Hildebrandt, No. 4016, a native also of Lower Guinea and 
Abyssinia; and C. nes grag Vahl., Madagascar, Thompson, 
as a tropical African plant. C. nudicaulis Poir., not seen by Mr. 
Clarke from oe usage was collected by Hildebrandt at Andrang- 
vloaka (No. 3741 
= 
Scleria Hilsenber ergii—Culmis debilibus triquetris pauci- 
foliatis ultra pedalibus, ieee viridibus flaccidis linearibus mar- 
ginibus apicium ciliatis icula laxa, ramis capillaribus sub- 
flexuosis fasciculis ei ‘souaitiba ad viginti, prot ovatis 
longe mucronatis, quam fasciculos brevioribus, mucrone ciliato 
spiculis binis vel ternis, parvis masculis Joeustsalieia “commixtis, 
