134 XXVII. CYPERACE/E. [>ScIei-ia 



echinulate. With Drosera indicci in damp woods where Aiidmpogon 

 grows on the banks of the river Cuanza ; 12 March 1857. No. 7134. 



10. S. pulchella Eidl., I.e. ; C. B. Clarke, I.e., p. 674. 

 HriLLA. — Achene prickly. With EriocfOflo)/, and species of Xyrix 



on the lofty short-grassed pastures of Empalanca ; Dec. 1859. March 

 and May 1860. No. 7141. 



11. S. remota Eidl., I.e., p. 169 (cum var. hispida), 0. B. Clarke, I.e. 

 PuxciO AxDoxcio. — Apparently annual, erect, cfespitose ; leaves 



strictly erect, hairy, broadly channelled, acutely keeled, and yellowish- 

 green like the whole plant : culms acutely triquetrous with striate 

 sides and with spreading hairs on the angles, never branched. Nut 

 with a thick stalk, globose-trigonous, membranes subprominent hori- 

 zontally multicostate and muriculate. Plentiful but only in one 

 locality in spongy rocky places near Catete ; 28 Feb. 1857. No. 7130. 

 Achene prickly and mucronate. In damp wooded meadows between 

 Serra de Pedras de Guinga and Candumba ; March 1 857. No. 7129. 

 Annual, culms 1 ft., erect, 2 to 5 growing from the same root, spike 

 elongated, interrupted, spikelets half-whorled, dull brown. Higher 

 damp slopes of Funda-Quilombo in the prsesidium ; April 1857. 

 No. 7131 (in part). Growing among mosses with another scirpoid 

 plant on the heights of Pedra Songue ; April 1857. No. 7131/'. 



12. S. foliosa Hochst. ex A. Rich., I.e., p. 509 : Eidl., I.e., 

 p, 170 ; C. B. Clarke, I.e., p. 670. 



*S'. dumicola, Eidl., I.e., p. 169. 



PuNfiO AxDONGO. ^ — Achenes snow-white, rugulose - tuberculate. 

 Rather rare in thicket-grown marshes between Quilanga and Pedras de 

 Guinga ; Jan. 1857. No. 7122. Achenes deeply and closely pitted. 

 Damp meadows on the banks of the Cuanza near Muta-Lucala : March 

 1857. No. 7123. 



13. S. clathrata Hochst. ex A. Eich., I.e., p. 510 ; Eidl., I.e., 

 p. 170; C. B. Clarke, I.e. 



PuxGO Andoxck). — Achenes snow-white, longitudinally furrowed. 

 Widely c^spitose in the higher marshy wooded meadows of Pedra 

 de Guinga and Matta de Quilanga, Feb., between Caghuy and 

 Sansamanda growing with Isoetes aquinoctialix, April and May 1857. 

 No. 7124. 



14. S. poaeoides Eidl., I.e., {jioceoides) ; C. B. Clarke, I.e., p. 674. 

 HuiLi.A. ^Perennial, rhizome and root-fibres blood-red when alive, 



somewhat fleshy : culms csespitose very slender triquetrous, panicles 

 lax, achene tuberculate crowned with a truncate mucro. Plentiful in 

 sandy-spongy places at Quilebe near Huilla ; in fl. and fr. end of Nov. 

 1851). No. 7142. Smells like lemon when rubbed. Damp meadows 

 near Catumba ; April 1800. Coll. Caki'. 1U7G. 



15. S. melanomphala Kunth, I.e., p. 345; Eidl., I.e., p. 171 : 

 C. B. Clarke, I.e., p. 672. 



PuxGo Andongo. — Perennial, 2J to 3i ft. high. On the marshy 

 banks of small streams in wooded places near Quilongo but not plenti- 

 ful ; Feb. 1857. No. 7145. 



Huilla. — 4 ft. high, c^spitose ; spikes nodding ; glumes a splendid 



