Fulrena] xxvii. CYPERACEiE. 12[> 



G. F. umbellata Eottb. Descr. et Icon. PI. p. 70 ; 0. B. Clarke, 

 I.C., p. 648. 



GoLUXGO Alto. — Culms i> to 4 ft. high, acutely pentagonal, 

 glaucescent, horizontally spreading like the leaves. Here and there in 

 spongy places by streams near the town of Golungo Alto. 8ange ; in 

 fl. end of Sept. 1854. Xo. 7121. 



PuNGO Am)()N(;(). — Damp meadows near Umbilla (N-builla ?) on the 

 right of the river Cuanza : March 18.57. No. 7120. 



7. F. cinerascens Boj.ex Ridl.,^.c.,p. 161 ; C. B. Clarke, ^.c, p. 645. 

 Hl'illa. — The whole plant somewhat fleshy and stiff. Damp wooded 



meadows of Catumba ; end of March 18G0 ; No. 7110. 



8. F. pachyrrhiza Ptidl, I.e. ; C. B. Clarke, I.e., p. 647, 

 PrxGo AxDoNGo. — Marshes near Muta Lucala ; March 1857. 



No. 7117- Wooded marshy places between Caghuy and the river 

 Cuanza growing with Ixoffp.-: : April 1857. No. 7118- Sansamanda, in 

 spongy woods : May 1857. No. 7119. 



11. LIPOCARPHA R. Br. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 1054. 



1. L. argentea R. Br. in Tuckey's Congo Exped. p. 459 (1818) ; 

 Ridl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. ii. p. 163 (1884) ; C. B. Clarke in 

 Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 649. 



PrxGo AxDoxGO. — A very widely ciespitose herb with erect culms 

 and hard compact greenish-white spikes. At the stream of Calunda in 

 the rocky valleys of the i)ra5sidium : middle of Jan. 1857. No. 6778. 



HriLLA.— Heads compact, whitish : caryopsis oblong-subclavate, 

 obtusely triangular, chestnut-coloured, polished, with a disc-like stalk. 

 Rather rare at wooded ponds in the mixed woods of Monino ; end of 

 March 1860. No. 6777. 



2. L. albiceps Ridl., I.e., C. B. Clarke, I.e. 



PrxGo AxDOXGO. — Muta Lucala on the river Cuanza ; March 1857. 

 No. 6782 Spongy slopes of the proesidium mixed with A scale pis and 

 other Glumacea3. Heads snow-white. Dec. 1855. No. 6785 (in 

 part). Swampy meadows growing with Ascolep's near Catete, 

 March 1857, and Sansamanda, Feb. 1857. No. 6786. 



3. L. purpureo-lutea Ridl., I.e. ; C. B. Clarke, I.e., p. 650. 



HriLLA. — Heads yellowish, deep purple at the base. In thicket- 

 grown pastures flooded in summer near Humpata ; end of March 

 1860. No. 6784. 



4. L. sphacelata Kunth Enum. ii. p. 2(j1 {ld>Z1) {sphacilata); 

 Ridl., I.e., p. 162] C. B. Clarke, /.(•., p. 650. 



PuNGO Andonc^O. — Plentiful in damp rather sandy meadows near 

 Mopopo on the river Cuanza, April 1857 : and at Lombe, March 1857. 

 No. 6776. 



5. L. atra Ridl., I.e. ; C. B. Clarke, I.e. 



HriLi.A. — Wet places by the banks of the river Cacolovar, near Lake 

 Ivantala, but not plentiful ; end of Feb. 1859. No. 6961. Afterwards 

 (April) picked in sandy ground near Humpata. 



6. L. pulcherrima Ridl, I.e. ; C. B. Clarke, I.e. 



PuNGO AxDONGo. — Swampy meadows near the pitesidium, growing 

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