106 XXVII. CYPERACEiE. [ICi/Uingco 



12. K. albiceps C. B. Clarke ined. 



K. macrocepliala A. Rich. var. angustior C. B. Clarke, I.e., p. 529. 



K. sphcerocepha, C. B. Clarke, I.e., p. 532 (non Boeck). 



Cyperus albiceps Ridl. in Journ. Bot. 1884, p. 16. 



PuNGO Andongo. — Prsesidium; March 1857. No. 6796 (in part). 



2. PYCREUS Beauv. Fl. Owar ii. p. 48, t. 86 (1810-18). 

 Cyperus L. ; Benth. k Hook. f. Gen. PL iii. p. 1043 ; pro parte. 



1. P. flavescens Beauv. ex Rchb. Fl. Germ. Excurs. p. 72 

 (1830) ; C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 

 p. 537. 



Cyperus flavescens L. Sp. PI. p. 46 (1753) ; Ridl. in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. ser. 2. ii. p. 125 (1884). 



Var. abyssinicus C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. p. 279 

 (1883) ; Ridl., I.e. 



C. jwlitus Welw. ex Ridl., I.e. 



Sierra Lkone. — In wet places by streams near Freetown; Sept. 

 1853. No. 7055. 



Amhaca. — Somewhat rare in marshes by Lake Canguele-Canganga 

 not far from the river Caringa ; June 1855. No. 7087. Somewhat 

 plentiful in partly dried-up marshes and in spongy places between the 

 river Caringa and Lake Canguele-Canganga ; June 1855. No. 7096. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Plentiful, but seen only in a single locality, in 

 spongy boggy places near Sange by the banks of the river Cuango ; 

 Dec. 1854. Nos. 7072 ; 7101. In damp palm-groves with very rich 

 black soil near Ponte de Luiz Simoes ; July 1855. No. 7088. 



PuNGO Andoxgo. — Umbilla Cuanza, Muta Lucala and near the 

 praesidium ; March 1857. No. 6907. An annual crowded caespitose 

 plant. On the spongy banks of the river Calunda, in the prsesidium ; 

 Jan. 1857. No. 6911- Plentiful by woody marshes near the banks of 

 the river Cuanza near Sansamanda ; Feb. 1857. No. 6922. Marshes 

 near Quitage ; March 1857. No. 6923. An annual, 2 to 2i ft. high, 

 bright green, with lax decumbent culms and leaves. In marshes on 

 the banks of the stream Casalale in the prsesidium ; middle of Jan. 

 1857. No. 6925. No. 7150 (no locahty). 



2. P. fluminalis. 



P . p^'opinquus C. B. Clai'ke, I.e., p. 541 (non Nees). 



CypcTus fluminalis Ridl., I.e., p. 127. 



Pungo Andongo. — Rather rare by the banks of the river Cuanza 

 near Candumba, growing right in the water along with reeds, Pa/;do?;MS 

 WehvUschii and ferns ; 29 Jan. 1857. No. 6897. 



3. P. Mundtii Nees in Linnsea ix. p. 283 (1834) ; C. B. Clarke 

 in Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 539. 



Cyjicrus Mundtii Kunth Enum. ii. p. 17 (1837) ; Ridl. I.e. 



LoANDA. — No. 7092 (in part). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Culms flagelliform, widely creeping and sterile, 

 then ascending and leafy, leaves stiff. Flowering culms erect, obtusely 

 trigonous, very smooth, peduncles of spikes compressed cylindrical, 

 almost two-edged. Habit of Remircu marit/ma ; the flagelliform stolons 

 closely resembling those of species of Dianthus. Rather rare in spongy 

 wet places by the river Cuango, closely interwoven with other species 



