Fimhristylis\ xxvii. CYPERACEiE. 123 



6. F. exilis Roem. & Schnlt. Syst. Veget. ii. p. 98 (1817) ; C. B. 

 Clarke, I.e., p. 604. 



F. Hildebrandtii Ridl., I.e., p. 155, et var. egregia Eidl., I.e., p. 156. 



F. hisjnchda Kunth, I.e., p. 227. 



A.MBRiz. — Low gravelly hills near the town ; very plentiful and 

 polymorphic ; Nov. 1853. No. 7001. 



Luanda. — Cajspitose, glaucous, spikelets ovate-acute in umbels of 

 2 to 5. Plentiful on the gravelly shores of Casanga Island, 3,^ leagues 

 south of Loanda, below Barra da Corimba ; 30 April 1854. No. 6983. 

 Gravelly places near Museque de Sr. Luiz Gomes ; May 1854. No. 

 6984. Sandy places flooded in the rainy season near Imbondeiro dos 

 Lobos, March, gravelly places near Cacuaco, April 1854. No. 6985. 

 Road to Calumbo, Ih leagues from Loanda ; May 1854. No. 6986. 

 Sandy places near Penedo ; Jan. 1859 ; Quicuje, on the last excursion ; 

 Aug. 1860. No. 6996. Plentiful on the sandy sea-shore of Praia de 

 Bispo and of Zamba Grande ; Feb. 1858. No. 6998. Sandy pastures 

 usually flooded in the rainy season, near Maianga do Poco ; end of 

 Dec. 1867. No. 6998&. Sandy short-grassed places near Forte de 

 Penedo but rather rare ; Dec. 1857. No. 6998c. 



(?) GoLUNGO Alto.— No. 7012/v (no information). 



PuNGO AxDONCio. — Sandy thickets between the prassidium and the 

 river Cuanza ; Dec. 1856. No. 6822. With Pohjgala afrkana in 

 meadows at Catete, Jan., swampy pastures round the prsesidium and 

 marshy places near Luxillo, April 1857. No. 6823 (in part). Dec. 1856 ; 

 No. 6826. Spongy marshes towards the south of the pr^esidium ; 

 Dec. 1856. No. 6827/' (in part). Calunda ; Jan. 1857. No. 6828 (in 

 part). Sandy marshes Ijetween the presidium and Quilanga ; Feb. 

 1857. No. 6831 (in part). No. 6831i. Lombe growing with 5t>?/»o«^i« 

 platyptera Baker (Herb. No. 1512) ; Mar. 1857. No. 6833. Nos. 7152, 

 7161 (no information). 



HuiLLA. — Among tufts of Xyridea3 in the more lofty pastures of 

 Morro de Lopollo. A unique specimen found in the beginning of 

 May 1860. No. 6946. Sandy pastures, in places which are flooded 

 in summer, between Catumba and Hay ; April 1860. No. 6953. Low 

 sandy hills grown with short thicket between Nene and Ferrao da 

 Sola ; beginning of Dec. 1859. No. 6954. Growing sporadically in 

 tufts in the wooded pastures of Monino ; April 1860. No. 6956. 

 Abandoned fields round Sonsala do Monino, Feb., and at the end of 

 April almost everywhere round Lopollo, 1860. No. 6957. 



6. F. complanata Link Hort. Berol. i. p. 292 (1827); Padl, 

 I.e., p. 150 ; C. B. Clarke, I.e., p. 602. 



PungoAndongo. — Banksofstreamsnear Luxillo; Feb. 1857. No. 6835. 

 HuiLLA. — Rather poor thicket-grown pastures which are flooded in 

 summer, near Eme ; end of March 1860. No. 6971. 



7. F. obtusifolia Kunth, I.e., p. 240 ; C. B. Clarke, I.e., p. 608. 

 F. rigidida Bidl., I.e. (non Kunth). 



Loanda. — Widely and densely casspitose, fixed by its very tough, 

 long, and almost unbranched root-fibres in the beds of Halhnum 

 Portulacastrum on the seashore. Culms erect, 1 to '1 feet, flattened 

 and two-edged, generally twice or thrice twisted, leafy at the base ; 

 leaves linear, coriaceous, shining, roundly channelled, forming tufts 

 resembling Anneria mar it/ma. Spikelets many-flowered, dull chestnut- 

 coloured. Caryopsis dull chestnut, hard and crustaceous, obovate, 

 obtusely trigonous with truncate apex, and finely transversely rugulose 



