Kyllinga] XXVII, CYPERACE, 105 
GotunGo ALTO.—Culms somewhat rigid and strict. Heads green 
not white. Damp reedy ground near Banza de Bango. Not yet in 
good flower; 23 April, 1856. No. 7007. 
Pungo ANDONGO.—A herb 2 to 3 ft. high, with erect culms and 
long-involucred heads, appearing like a small palm. In the waters of 
the river Cuanza, near Candumba, but not plentiful ; 23 Feb. 1857. A 
widely ceespitose herb, with creeping very tough pleasantly aromatic 
rhizome (almost like Acorus Calamus), and greenish heads. Fissures 
of rocks on the stream Malemba near Candumba, growing with bamboo ; 
March 1857. No. 6801. 
7. K. erecta Schum. in Dansk. Vidensk. Selsk. iii. p. 62 (1828) ; 
C. B. Clarke, @.c. 
XK. aurata Nees in Linnea x. p. 139 (1836); Ridl., dc. 
Loanpa.—Rhizome horizontal, branched, culms erect, heads greenish. 
Plentiful round ponds in herb-grown places near Represa de Luiz 
Gomes ; Feb. 1854. No. 6797. Also Jan. 1858. No. 6999. 
Danpr.—By the lake of Bombo ; August 1858. No. 6799. 
Punco ANDONGO.—Round the Lagoa de Quibinda; March 1857. 
No. 6800 (in part). An elegant plant, with czspitose culms, and small 
solitary greenish heads. In rather sandy damp thickets near Luxillo. 
In spongy marshy places on the more lofty rocks towards the south of 
the presidium ; middle of December 1856. No. 6808. 
Huvitia.—In poor shortly thicket-grown pastures near Lopollo ; 
Feb. and beginning of April 1860. No. 6809. Plentiful in rather 
damp wooded meadows on the river Cacolobar ; beginning of March 
1860. No. 6810. 
8. K. monocephala Rottb., Jc, p. 13; Ridl., dc, p. 147; C. B. 
Clarke, .¢., p. 530. 
Prince’s Istanp.—A perennial herb with grass-like rather flaccid 
leaves and white heads. In rather dry wooded more lofty places of 
the island ; Sept. 1853. No. 6988. 
9, K. alba Nees in Linnea x. p. 140 (1835); Ridl., Zc. ; C. B. 
Clarke, i.c., p. 526. 
Huvi1Lita.—Heads greenish white. Among short herbage in the drier 
pastures of Empalanca; end of March 1860. No. 6805. Rhizome 
strongly aromatic; heads whitish. In the high pastures, flooded 
during the rains, of Morro de Monino; April 1860. No. 6806. In 
the drier thicket-grown pastures of Catumba ; April 1860. No, 6812. 
10, K. squamulata in Vahl Enum. ii. p. 381 (1806); Ridl., 
Zc.; C. B. Clarke, Zc., p. 532. 
S1erra LEonE.—In grassy places between Freetown and Sugar Loaf 
Mountain; Sept. 1853. No. 6987. 
11. K. pauciflora Ridl., J.c., et t. xxiii, figs. 1-4; C. B. Clarke, 
Z.c., p. 530: 
HUvILus.—Spikelets few, two-flowered, one flower § the other 2. 
Style elongated with tripartite apex. Ovary oblong-ovate, subcom- 
pressed. Habit almost that of some species of Uncinia or Carex, Near 
streams in marshy places between Ferrdo da Sola and Catumba; 
March and April 1860. No. 6811. 
