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Huilla, in pascuis macrioribus dumetosis agri Lopollo, non frequens, Feb. 1860, no. 6955. 
The affinity of this plant is with F. festucoides, Poir. It is remarkable for the usually 
solitary spikelet. "The culms are about 9 inches in length, the leaves 3 inches. 
F. APHYLLANTHOIDES, Welw. MS.; rhizomate descendente crasso ; radicibus validulis ; 
culmis paucis rigidis erectis bipedalibus obtuse triquetris; foliis linearibus obtusi- 
usculis rigidis glaucis, culmo dimidio brevioribus; vaginis membranaceis fissis basi 
castaneis lucidis, marginibus supra ciliis albis rigidis munitis; involucralibus duobus 
mox deciduis brevibus linearibus obtusis basi dilatatis, margine lato membranaceo ; 
capitulo singulo magno compacto; spiculis 6-8 oblongis magnis aggregatis ; squamis 
linearibus oblongis acutiusculis carinatis punctatis fulvo-brunneis margine scariosis . 
staminibus tribus, antheris linearibus obtusis rubris; stylo longo trifido exserto rube- 
scente, basi dilatato; caryopsi minima alba rugosa, oblonga trigona, tuberculo magno 
rufo. 
Pungo Andongo, in collinis apricis sylvestribus prope Condo, ad dextram fluminis 
Cuanza, et Quisonde, Mart. 1857, no. 6837 ; staticem fingit. 
The affinity of this plant appears to be with F. schenoides. It has the habit of 
a Schenus, with stiff culms 2-21 feet in height, a single large capitulum 2 inch long, 
and deciduous involucral bracts, the longest of which is barely an inch in length. The 
glumes are 2 inch in length and usually yellowish brown, but often with a darker 
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sanguineous patch on each side of the carina. There are about 20 flowers in the spikelet. 
Е. КОХТНТАХА, Isolepis schenoides, Kunth, 1. с. 208. Scirpus schenoides, Boeckeler, 
1. с. 514. 
Huilla, іп collinis decompositis schisti arenacei, lecta prope Nene, Nov. 1859, по. 6949. 
A native also of the Cape and Madagascar. It is necessary to change the name of 
this plant in transferring it to the genus Fimbristylis, as the specific name schenoides is 
preoccupied. The Mascarene plant differs somewhat in pilosity from the African plant, 
and was described by me under the name F. schwnoides, var. ciliata, Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 
It will be necessary to alter the name to Е. Kunthiana, var. ciliata. 
F.MELANOCEPHALA, n. sp. Humilis, biuncialis, radicibus fibrosis; eulmis erectis canali- 
culatis glabris; foliis setaceis acutis glaucescentibus carinatis culmis brevioribus 
hispidis; vaginis membranaceis purpureis hispidis; involucralibus 2 glumaceis, 
mucrone longo viridi hispido capitulum subzquantibus; capitulo singulo rarius 
altero, parvo atrosanguineo ; squamis ovatis hispidis, marginibus ciliatis, inferioribus 
breviter mucronatis; staminibus tribus, antheris brunneis apiculatis; stylo trifido 
longiusculo, exserto ; caryopsis deest. 
Huilla, in pascuis breviter herbidis, cum Xyrideis et Eriocaulone, in dumosis ех Morro 
de Monino, versus Humpata, alibi non vidi, no. 6947. 
This little plant, which is in so young a state that the form of the caryopsis cannot be 
accurately determined, is very near the preceding species. The leaves are numerous, 
setaceous or very narrowly linear, with the margins revolute, and the back cancellate. 
