Kyllinga] xxvii. cyperace^. 105 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Culms somewhat rigid and strict. Heads green 

 not white. Damp reedy ground near Banza de Bango. Not yet in 

 good flower ; 23 April, 1866. No. 7007. 



PuNGO Andoxgo. — A herb 2 to 3 ft. high, with erect culms and 

 long-involucred heads, appearing like a small palm. In the waters of 

 the river Cuanza, near Candumba, but not plentiful ; 23 Feb. 1857. A 

 widely csespitose herb, with creeping very tough pleasantly aromatic 

 rhizome (almost like Acorus Cakimuft), and greenish heads. Fissures 

 of rocks on the stream Malemba near Candumba, growing with bamboo ; 

 March 1857. No. 6801. 



7. K. erecta Schum. in Dansk. Vidensk. Selsk. iii. p. G2 (1828); 

 C. B. Clarke, Ic. 



K. aurata Nees in Linna^a x. p. 139 (1836); Ridl., I.e. 



Lo.\NDA. — Rhizome horizontal, branched, culms erect, heads greenish. 

 Plentiful round ponds in herb-grown places near Represa de Luiz 

 Gomes ; Feb. 1854. No. 6797- Also Jan. 1858. No. 6999. 



Dande.— By the lake of Bombo ; August 1858. No. 6799. 



PuNGO AxDONGO. — Round the Lagoa de Quibinda : March 1857. 

 No. 6800 (in part). An elegant plant, with csespitose culms, and small 

 solitary greenish heads. In rather sandy damp thickets near Luxillo. 

 In spongy marshy places on the more lofty rocks towards the south of 

 the prEesidium ; middle of December 1856. No. 6808. 



HuiLLA. — In poor shortly thicket-grown pastures near LopoUo ; 

 Feb. and beginning of April 1860. No. 6809. Plentiful in rather 

 damp wooded meadows on the river Cacolobar ; beginning of March 

 1860. No. 6810. 



8. K. monocephala Eottb., I.e., p. 13 ; Pvidl, I.e., p. 147 ; C. B. 

 Clarke, I.e., p. 530. 



Prince's Island. — A perennial herb with grass-like rather flaccid 

 leaves and white heads. In rather dry wooded more lofty places of 

 the island ; Sept. 1853. No. 6988. 



9. K. alba Nees in Linnfea x. p. 140 (1835) ; Ptidl., I.e. ; C. B. 

 Clarke, I.e., p. 526. 



Huilla. — Heads greenish white. Among short herbage in the drier 

 pastures of Empalanca ; end of March 1860. No. 6805. Rhizome 

 strongly aromatic ; heads whitish. In the high pastures, flooded 

 during the rains, of Morro de Monino ; April 1860. No. 6806. In 

 the drier thicket-grown pastures of Catumba ; April 1800. No. 6812. 



10. K. squamulata in Vahl Enum. ii. p. 381 (1806); Pudl., 

 I.e. ; C. B. Clarke, I.e., p. 532. 



Sierra Leone. — In grassy places between Freetown and Sugar Loaf 

 Mountain; Sept. 1853. No. 6987. 



U.K. pauciflora Pddl, I.e., et t. xxiii, figs. 1-4 ; C. B. Clarke, 

 I.e., p. 530. 



Huilla. — Spikelets few, two-flowered, one flower ^ the other ,^. 

 Style elongated with tripartite apex. Ovary oblong-ovate, subcom- 

 pressed. Habit almost that of some species of Uncinia or Carex. Near 

 streams in marshy places between Ferrao da Sola and Catumba; 

 March and April 1860. No. 6811. 



