Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 8, page 264, (1902) Author: (By C. B. Clarke.)
Names
KYLLINGA melanosperma Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, ix. 286. —Nees in Wight, Contrib. 91; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxv. 419; Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 166; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 588, in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 529, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 153; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 123.
KYLLINGA macrocephala T. Thoms. [family CYPERACEAE], in Speke, Nile, Append. 654, not of A. Rich.
Distribution
British East Africa Nile Land Madi, Speke & Grant, 693!Congo Lower Guinea Bingila, Dupuis!Congo South Central Lusambo, on the Sankuru River, Duchesne, 11! 23!Zanzibar Mozamb. Dist. Stuhlmann, 93!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Plains of Zomba, 2500–3000 ft., Whyte! Namasi, near Zomba, Cameron, 89!
Notes
The plants with the ticket “Stuhlmann, 93,” are by some error in distribution marked Rhyncospora echinophora, K. Schum.; but I have not found where that Rhyncospora is published. In Cameron, 89, the stems exceed 5 ft. in height; the heads are young and I do not see how they differ from young heads of K. melanosperma .