Pepalanthus] XXVI. ERIOCAULACE, 103 
spathulate, hairy on the back ; style with a stout cylindrical base 
dividing into 8 linear-tapering arms, with no intervening sterile 
arms ; seeds red-brown, subelliptical with a shallow point at each 
end; male flower subsessile, sepals concave, broadly elliptical to 
obovate with rounded apex, glabrous ; petals connate into a short 
funnel round the base of the 3 stamens ; anthers didymous, black. 
Plants $ to 1 in. high ; leaves 3 to 5 lines long by + to } line 
broad, or sometimes narrower ; scapes 4 to 1 in. long; sheath 
about half as long. Flower-heads 2 to 1 line across; involucral 
bracts $ line long and half as broad; floral bracts 2 by + to t long 
becoming shorter above. Sepals of female flower 2 by 2 line; 
petals § by 7 to} line. Stalk of male flower ,, to 3',; sepals 
+ line long and half as broad. 
Distinguished from P. Wahlbergii by its pigmy size, few-flowered 
heads with white involucral bracts, and absence of sterile style-arms. 
HoitLa.—In rather damp fields formerly cultivated with Sorghum ; 
a very social plant and plentiful along with pigmy Cyperaceze and 
Commelynacee. Near Lopollo; April and May 1860. No. 2447. 
XXVII. CYPERACEA. 
Tripse rt. CYPEREL. 
1. KYLLINGA Rottb.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 1045. 
1. K. pumila Mich. Fl. Bor.-Amer. i. p. 28 (1803) ; C. B. Clarke 
in Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. p. 531. 
K. cespitosa Nees in Mart. FI. Bras. ii. 1, p. 12 (1842); Ridl. 
in Trans, Linn. Soc. ser. 2. ii. 145 (1884) pro parte. 
GoLtunco ALTo.—Slopes of eastern Queta near the banks of the 
river; Dec. 1855. No. 7012a. 
Pungo AnponGco.—Dec. 1856. No. 6790 (in part). March 1857. 
No. 6796 (in part). Densely cespitose with fibrous rhizome, flaccid 
decumbent or oblique culms, and pale greenish heads. Plentiful in 
the short-grassed damp more lofty mountain pastures with a species of 
Cleome, etc., near the rock Cabondo; end of Nov. 1856. No. 7153. 
Younger culms erect, nodding or decumbent when in fruit. Damp 
rocks near the hill Cabondo on the presidium ; Nov. 1856. No. 7158. 
No. 7167 (no information). 
2. K, parvula C. B. Clarke ined. 
K. brevifolia C. B, Clarke, 1.c., p. 527 (non Rottb.). 
K. cespitosa Nees, var. angustifolia Ridl., lc. 
Pungo ANDONGO.—Dec. 1856. No. 6781. 
3. K. triceps Rottb. Descr. and Ic. Pl. p, 14 (1773); Ridl., Lc., 
pro parte; C. B. Clarke, L.c., p. 533. 
K. cespitosa Ridl., U.c., pro parte (non Nees). 
GoLtunGco ALTO ?—No. 70056 (no information.) 
Punco ANDONGO.—By rain-swamps in spongy places between the 
presidium and Quilanga; Feb. 1857. No.6780. Wet places at Mutollo; 
