Fimbristylis| XXVII. CYPERACEAE. 123: 
6. F. exilis Room. & Schult. Syst. Veget. ii. p. 98 (1817); C. B. 
Clarke, i.c., p. 604. 
F, Hildebrandtii Rid, /.c., p. 155, et var. egregia Rid, l.c., p.156. 
£. hispidula Kunth, l.c., p. 227. 
AMBRIZ.—Low gravelly hills near the town; very plentiful and 
polymorphic ; Nov. 1853. No. 7001. 
Loanpa.—Cespitose, glaucous, spikelets ovate-acute in umbels of 
2t%o 5. Plentiful on the gravelly shores of Casanga Island, 34 leagues 
south of Loanda, below Barra da Corimba; 30 April 1854. No. 6983. 
Gravelly places near Museque de Sr. Luiz Gomes; May 1854. No. 
6984. Sandy places flooded in the rainy season near Imbondeiro dos. 
Lobos, March, gravelly places near Cacuaco, April 1854. No. 6985. 
Road to Calumbo, 1$ leagues from Loanda; May 1854. No. 6986. 
Sandy places near Penedo ; Jan. 1859 ; Quicuje, on the last excursion ; 
Aug. 1860. No. 6996. Plentiful on the sandy sea-shore of Praia de 
Bispo and of Zamba Grande ; Feb. 1858. No. 6998. Sandy pastures 
usually flooded in the rainy season, near Maianga do Poco; end of 
Dec. 1857. No. 6998). Sandy short-grassed places near Forte de 
Penedo but rather rare ; Dec. 1857. No. 6998c. 
(?) GoLunGo ALTO.—No. 70126 (no information). 
Punco Anponco.—Sandy thickets between the presidium and the 
river Cuanza; Dec. 1856. No. 6822. With Polygala africana in 
meadows at Catete, Jan., swampy pastures round the presidium and 
marshy places near Luxillo, April 1857. No. 6823 (in part). Dec. 1856 ; 
No. 6826. Spongy marshes towards the south of the presidium ; 
Dec, 1856. No. 6827 (in part)« Calunda ; Jan. 1857. No. 6828 (in 
part). Sandy marshes between ‘the presidium and Quilanga; Feb. 
1857. No.6831 (in part). No.6831b. Lombe growing with Belmontia 
platyptera Baker (Herb. No. 1512); Mar. 1857. No. 6833. Nos. 7152, 
7161 (no information). 
Huitisa,—Among tufts of Xyridez in the more lofty pastures of 
Morro de Lopollo. A unique specimen found in the beginning of 
May 1860. No. 6946. Sandy pastures, in places which are flooded 
in summer, between Catumba and Hay ; April 1860. No. 6953. Low 
sandy hills grown with short thicket between Nene and Ferrio da 
Sola; beginning of Dec. 1859. No. 6954. Growing sporadically in 
tufts in the wooded pastures of Monino; April 1860. No. 6956. 
Abandoned fields round Sonsala do Monino, Feb., and at the end of 
April almost everywhere round Lopollo, 1860. No. 6957. 
6. F. complanata Link Hort. Berol. i. p. 292 (1827); Rid, 
c., p. 150; C. B. Clarke, i.c., p. 602. 
Pungo ANDoNGO.—Banks of streams near Luxillo; Feb. 1857. No.6835. 
HuitLa.—Rather poor thicket-grown pastures which are flooded in 
summer, near Eme; end of March 1860. No. 6971. 
7. F. obtusifolia Kunth, /.c., p. 240; C. B. Clarke, Z.c., p. 608. 
F, rigidula Ridl., ic. (non Kunth). 
Loanpa.—Widely and densely cespitose, fixed by its very tough, 
long, and almost unbranched root-fibres in the beds of Halimum 
Portulacastrum on the seashore. Culms erect, 1 to 2 feet, flattened 
and two-edged, generally twice or thrice twisted, leafy at the base ; 
leaves linear, coriaceous, shining, roundly channelled, forming tufts 
resembling Armeria maritima. Spikelets many-flowered, dull chestnut- 
coloured. Caryopsis dull chestnut, hard and crustaceous, obovate, 
obtusely trigonous with truncate apex, and finely transversely rugulose 
