128 XXVII. CYPERACE/E. [S'cirjjus 



HuiLLA. — Heads green, very plentiful in damp clayey-sandy fields 

 round LopoUo after corn harvest ; end of May 1860. No. 6771- 



9. S. Isolepis Boeck., I.e., p. 498. 



Hemicarpha Isolepis Nees in Edinb. N. Phil. Journ. xvii. p. 263 

 (1834); Eidl., ^.c, p. 161. 



PuN'GO AxDONGo.— Sansamanda : Apr. 1857. No. 6814. Growing 

 in marshy places, Lombe ; Mar. 1857. No. 6815. Wooded meadows 

 between Condo and Quisonde ; Mar. 1857. No. 6818. 



HriLLA. — Growing with Xyridea^ etc., in places flooded in the rainy 

 season in the short -arrassed lofty meadows of Empalanca ; beginning 

 of May 1860. No. 6963. 



10. S. micranthus Vahl, I.e., p. 254; C. B. Clarke, l.c, p. 627. 

 Hemicarpha siihsquarrosa Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. Pt. 1. 



p. 61 (1842); Ridl., ^.c, p. 162. 



Loan DA. — Sandy-clayey places on the margins of ponds near 

 Concei9ao, but not plentiful. Almost past flowering ; 12 July 1854. 

 No. 6981. No. 6996 (no notes). 



10. FUIRENA Ptottb. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 1053. 



1. F. chlorocarpa Ridl. in Trans. Linn. See. ser. 2. ii. p. 159 ; 

 C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Gonsp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 645. 



HuiLLA. — Marshy places on the edges of fields in Lopollo ; Colonel 

 Kneissmann's garden ; beginning of April 1860. No. 7113. 



2. F. Welwitschii Ridl, I.e., p. 161 ; C. B. Clarke, I.e., p. 649. 

 PuNGO AxDOXGO. — Very slender erect with creeping perennial 



root-stock and greyish spikes. Marshes near Quibanga ; Jan. 1857. 

 No. 7108. 



HuiLLA. — Wooded pastures of Monino, and rather damp grassy 

 slopes of Morro de Monino ; April 1860. No. 7109. Plentiful in 

 rather damp pastures near Lopollo ; Dec. 1859 and Jan. 1860. No. 7114. 

 Low rather dry sandy hills near Eme ; end of Feb. 1860. No. 7115. 



3. F. pubescens Kunth Enum. ii. p. 182 (1837) ; Ridl., I.e., 

 p. 160 ; C. B. Clarke, I.e., p. 648. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — 3 to 4 ft. high, culm triquetrous flaccid, scram- 

 bling among the tall herbs of the marshy meadows (Varzeas) on the 

 river Cassaballa, Sobato de Bumba, where also Mungo grows ; Oct. 

 1855. No. 7116. 



4. F. pygmaea Welw. ex Ridl., I.e. ; C. B. Clarke, I.e. 



PuNG(> AxDoNGo. — Sansamanda ; Feb. and April 1857. No. 7111- 

 Grassy wooded sandy marshes between Mopopo and Sansamanda ; 

 May 1857. No. 7171. 



HuiLLA. — Growing in masses in rather damp sunny wooded places 

 covered with a dull blood-red Scytonona at Monino ; April 1860. 

 No. 7112. 



5. F. glomerata Lam. 111. i. p. 150 '(1791) ; Ridl, ^.c. ; C. B. 

 Clarke, I.e., p. G46. 



LoAXDA. — Annual, glaucous green, the whole plant roughly hairy, 

 culms obscurelj^ 4-angled in the lower part, densely covered with hori- 

 zontally spreading hairs. Rather rare at Represa de Maghelfios not far 

 from Forte de Concei^ao ; 12 July 1854. No. 7107. 



