СУРЕКАСЕЖ IN THE WELWITSCH HERBARIUM. 125 
SCIRPEA. 
CYPERUS ($ PYCREUS) FLAVESCENS, L., Sp. Pl. p. 46. 
Sierra Leone, in uliginosis juxta rivulos prope Free Town, Sept. 1853, no. 7055. 
Golungo Alto, frequens in spongioso-palustribus ad marginos rivi Cuango prope Sange, 
socialis eum Cypero polito, Welw. MS. (C. flavescens, var. abi yssinicus), Dec. 1854, no. 7101; 
in palmetis humidis humo nigro diviti prope Ponte de Luiz Simois, Jul. 1855, no. 7088. 
Ambaca, non infrequens inter rivum Caringa et laeum Canguele Canganga, Jun. 1855, 
no. 7087—7096. 
Pungo Andongo ad paludes prope Quitage, Mart. 1857, no. 6923; Umbilla, Cuanza, 
Muta Lucales, по. 6907, e:wspitoso-gregarius ad ripas spongiosas rivi Calunda ipsius 
Preesidii, no. 694. 
Var. abyssinicus, C. B. Clarke, in Linn. Journ. xx. p. 279. Сур. abyssinicus, Hochst. 
in Schimp. Pl. Abyss. 122. 
Golungo Alto, frequens, at unico loco a me visus in spongioso-palustribus prope Sange 
ad margines rivi Cuango, Dec. 1854, no. 7072. 
Pungo Andongo, frequens ad paludes sylvaticas juxta flumen Cuanga, prope Sansa- 
manda, Feb. 1857, no. 6922; ad ripas rivuli Casalale ipsius Preesidii, no. 6925. 
The plant is very variable in habit; no. 6925 is remarkable for its flaccid green 
decumbent culms and leaves and diffuse panicle. The species occurs over the whole of 
Africa, from Algeria to Natal, also in Madeira and Madagascar, and the greater part of 
Europe as far east as Persia and Afghanistan, and in North and South America. The 
Australian plant taken for this species seems to be C. globosus, All.; the plant dis- 
tributed by Sieber, in the Agrostotheca, no. 105, evidently did not come from Australia, 
C. ($ Рүсвкив) момоти, Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 17. 
Loanda district, по. 7092. Mossamedes in spongiosis ad lacum Giraul, Jul. 1859, 
no. 6885. 
Golungo Alto, in paludosis ad ripas rivi Casaballa, Sobati de Bumba, socialis cum 
Nauclea, Mart. 1856, no. 7092; rarior ad rivulum Cuango, aliis Cyperaceis dense inter- 
textis, Jan. 1855, no. 7092. 
Pungo Andongo, ad latera rivulorum prope Cabondo ipsius Preesidii, no. 6926, ad 
finem Martii, 1857. | 
Csespitosa caulibus ascendentibus flagelliformibus inter herbas altiores quasi scandens, 
foliis rigidis; steriles culmi ascendentes, florigeri erecti trigoni brevissimi, spicarum 
pedunculi cylindrico-compressi fere ancipites. Habitus Remiree maritime, stolones 
flagelliformes iis dianthorum exacte similes. 
This plant appears to be confined to Africa and the adjacent islands ; it is distributed 
over the whole continent, from Algeria to the Cape, Madagascar, and ТОМ 
С. ($ PYCREUS) LANCEOLATUS, Poir. Encycl. vii. p. 245; С. intermedius, Steud. Flora, 
1842, p. 581. 
Huilla, in arvis humidis prope Lopollo, non frequens, Mart. 1860, no. 6873. 
Occurs also in Abyssinia and Madagascar. 
