110 XXVII. CYPERACEA. [Cyperus 
stellate spikelets. Among fields of Mandioc near Quicuxe; 13 May, 
1854. Cox. Carp. 1069. 
Punco ANDONGO.—Plentiful in sandy woods between Caghui and 
Mopopo, near the river Cuanza; Feb. 1857. Candumba Lombe ; 
March 1857. No. 6912. 
Huvitia.—Plentiful in thicket-grown pastures flooded in the rainy 
season between Lopollo and Monino; March and April 1860. No. 6893. 
BENGUELLA.—Perhaps the most plentiful of the equatorial African 
species. In sandy woods between Serra das Bimbas and the town of 
Benguella; Jan. 1859. No. 6892. 
2. C. uncinatus Poir. Encycl. vii. p. 247 (1806); C, B. Clarke, 
Le., p. 580. 
C. cuspidatus H. B. K. Nov. Gen. and Sp. i, p. 204 (1815); 
Ridl., Zc. p. 130. 
Gotuneo Atto.—In sunny sandy sparsely-grassed places near 
Cambondo ; 24 Dec., 1854. No. 7099. 
Puneo ANDoNGO.—Catete, growing with Polygala africana ; Dec, 
1856. In damp places near Pedra Cabonda ; Dec. 1856 and Jan. 1857. 
In damp pastures on the stream Cazangue at Pedra Sangue; be- 
ginning of Jan. 1857. By sunny wooded marshes between the 
presidium and Quilanga ; tolerably plentiful ; Feb. 1857. No, 6910. 
Near Salgado’s Arimo; Dec. 1856. No. 7155. Nos. 7157 (in part), 
7175, and 7168 (no information). 
Hu1Lusa.—Plentiful in damp places in fields after a crop of Sorghum, 
growing with Pepalanthus Welwitschii ; May 1860. No. 6879. 
3. C. aristatus Rottb. Descr, and Ic, Plant. p. 23, t. vi. fig. 1; 
Ridl, lc., p. 180; C. B. Clarke, dc., p. 548. 
Loanpa.—Dried up ponds between Bemposta and Cumana on the 
way to Calumba; July 1858. No. 7029. Plentiful round the lake 
of Quicuje; August 1860. No. 7031. A somewhat plentiful annual 
growing vigorously in very hard clay by dried-up ponds, near Forte de 
Conceicao ; 12 July, 1854. No. 7078. : 
Punco ANDoNnGO.—In marshy places between Candumba and 
Lombe ; March 1857. No. 6909. On low rocky hills grown with a 
short thicket of Actinopteris radiata Link (Welw. herb. No. 78), always 
somewhat strict in habit; Jan. 1857. Muta Lucala, Condo; March 
1857. No. 69092. 
Huitia.—Plentiful in fields after a crop of Zea Mays. Lopollo, 
garden of Sr. Kneissmann: May 1860. No. 6895. Fields near 
Lopollo ; May 1860. Cott. Carp. 1081. 
BENGUELLA.—In damp sandy-clayey places between the river 
Cavado and the river Catumbella. Almost past flowering; June 
1859. No. 6894. 
4, C. cancellatus Ridl., i.c., p. 131; C. B. Clarke, lc., p. 551. 
Puneo AnDonGo.—On spongy ground between Muta Lucala and 
Lombe; March 1857. On banks of streams near Cabonda in the 
presidium ; end of March 1857. No. 6916. Plentiful in rice-fields 
on the small river Miége (Miesche) near Caghuy ; end of Feb. 1857. 
In low-lying wet pastures in the presidium ; March 1857. No. 6917. 
Var. gracillimus Ridl., /.c. On spongy ground with short herbage 
in the mixed woods of Monino, but only here and there; beginning 
of May 1860. No. 6862. 
