104 XXVII. CYPERACEE. [Kyllinga 
end of Feb. 2857. No. 6787. Dec. 1856. No. 67876. Rhizome 
creeping, culms czspitose, strictly erect, with a slightly bulbous base; 
heads greenish. Damp pastures near Catete; Nov. 1856. Spongy 
marshy places on the higher rocks towards the south of the presidium ; 
middle of Dec. 1856. Catete, with Polygala africana Chodat ; be- 
ginning of Jan. 1857. No. 6791. Rhizome slightly bulbous; heads 
greenish ; culms strictly erect, scarcely caespitose. Spongy wet places 
on tue higher rocks with bulbous Liliacez ; end of Nov. 1856. No. 7160. 
‘Var. ciliata Boeck. in Linnea xxxv. p. 414 (1867-68); C. B. 
Clarke, /.c. 
K. cespitosa Ridl., l.c., pro parte (non Nees). 
K. triceps RidL, Uc. (non Rottb.). 
K. Welwitschia Ridl, l.c., p. 147. 
Loanps.—Cespitose. Rather damp littoral places at Zamba Grande, 
but not often found ; end of April 1854. No. 6793. Plentiful in 
pastures with short herbage between Loanda and Penedo, not far from 
the sea; March 1858. No. 6995. Czspitose ; leaves somewhat flat, 
erect, with a hispidulous, distantly ciliate margin; heads whitish. 
Short-grassed places, between Penedo and Conceicao; beginning of 
May 1858. No. 6999b. 
Pungo ANDoNGo.—On the banks of the Cuanza near Calemba ; 
Calemba Islands ; March 1857. No.6779. Muta Lucala, March 1857. 
No. 6790 (in part). Between Lombe and Muta Lucala ; March 1857. 
No. 6796 (in part). Damp forest-meadows between Bumba and Condo, 
plentiful but immature ; March 1857. No. 6798. 
BENGUELLA.—Plentiful but seen in one locality only in rather damp 
places grown with short herbage south of the city of Benguella, near 
the oo of a pond now almost dry. Beginning of June 1859. 
No. 6792. 
4, K. cylindrica Nees in Wight, Contrib. Bot. Ind. p. 91 
(1834); Ridl., Zc, p. 146; OC. B. Clarke, ic. p. 528. 
K. triceps Rottb. var. obtusiflora Boeck. Uc. ; Ridl., J.¢., p. 145. 
Var. longispicata Ridl., l.c., p. 146. 
Sierra Leone.—Plentiful among herbage near Freetown ; Sept. 
1853. No. 6989. 
GoLunGco ALTO.—On rather damp slopes and in palm-groves, Monte 
de Queta ; Nov. 1855. No. 7005. 
Pungo ANDoNGO.—In damp rocky pastures by the ‘river Casalalé ; 
middle of Jan. 1857. No. 6789. 
HviLia.—On wet slopes near streams in Morro de Lopollo on the 
way to Empalanca, but not plentiful; heads green. Almost past 
flowering ; middle of May 1860. No. 6795. Near Humpata; April 
and May 1860. Cou. Carp 1080. 
5. K. pungens Link Hort. Berol. i. p. 326 (1827); C. B. 
Clarke, l.c., p. 532. 
K. obtusata Pres] Rel. Haenk. i. p. 183 (1828); Ridl., Zc. 
Puneo ANDonGo.—In wet often flooded places on the Calemba 
Islandsin the river Cuanza near Condo; March 1857. No. 6800 (in part). 
6. K. elatior Kunth Enum. PI. ii. p. 135 (1837); C, B. Clarke, 
Zc., p. 528. 
K. aromatica Ridl., l.c. 
Loanpa.-—No. 6996. 
