Fcepakmtlncs] xxvi. ERiocAULACEiE. 103 



spathiilate, liaiiy on the back ; style with a stout cylindrical base 

 dividing into 3 linear-tapering arms, with no intervening sterile 

 arms ; seeds red-brown, subelliptical with a shallow point at each 

 end ; male flower subsessile, sepals concave, broadly elliptical to 

 obovate with rounded apex, glabrous ; petals connate into a short 

 funnel round the base of the 3 stamens ; anthers didymous, black. 



Plants 1 to 1 in. high ; leaves 3 to 5 lines long by | to i line 

 broad, or sometimes narrower ; scapes i to 1 in. long ; sheath 

 about half as long. Flower-heads | to 1 line across ; involucral 

 bracts f[ line long and half as broad ; floral bracts |^ by i to i long 

 becoming shorter above. Sepals of female flower f by i line ; 

 petals i by y\y to i line. Stalk of male flower Jg- to -jV ; sepals 

 -^ line long and half as broad. 



Distinguished from F. Wahlhergii by its pigmy size, few-flowered 



heads with white involucral bracts, and absence of sterile style-arms. 



HuiLLA.— In rather damp fields formerly cultivated with Sorghum ; 



a very social plant and plentiful along with pigmy CyperaceJB and 



CommelynaceEe. Near LopoUo ; April and May 1860. No. 2447. 



XXVII. CYPERACE^. 



Tribe i. CYPERE^. 



1. KYLLINGA Rottb.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 1045. 



1. K. pumila Mich. Fl. Bor.-Amer. i. p. 28 (1803) ; C. B. Clarke 

 in Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 531. 



K. ccespitosa Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras, ii, 1, p. 12 (1842); Ridl. 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. ii. 145 (1884) pro parte. 



GoLUXGO Alto.— Slopes of eastern Queta near the banks of the 

 river ; Dec. 1855. No. 7012a. 



PuNco ANDON(io.— Dec. 185G. No. 6790 (in part). March 1857. 

 No. 6796 (in part). Densely c^spitose with fibrous rhizome, flaccid 

 decumbent or obhque culms, and pale greenish heads. Plentiful in 

 the short-grassed damp more lofty mountain pastures with a species of 

 Cleome, etc., near the rock Cabondo ; end of Nov. 1856. No. 7153. 

 Younger culms erect, nodding or decumbent when in fruit. Damp 

 rocks near the hill Cabondo on the praesidium ; Nov. 1856. No. 7158- 

 No. 7167 (no information). 



2. K. parvula C. B. Clarke ined. 



K. brevifolia C. B. Clarke, I.e., p. 527 (non Eottb.). 

 K. Gcsspitosa Nees, var. angusUfolia Ridl., I.e. 

 Pqngo Andongc— Dec. 1856. No. 6781. 



3. K. triceps Rottb. Descr. and Ic. PI. p. 14 (1773) ; Ridl., I.e., 

 pro parte; C. B. Clarke, I.e., p. 533. 



K. ccespitosa Ridl., I.e., pro parte (non Nees). 

 GoLUNGO Alto ?— No. 7005J (no information.) 

 PuNGO Andongo. — By rain-swamps in spongy places between the 

 praesidium and Quilanga ; Feb. 1857. No. 6780. Wet places at MutoUo ; 



