134 XXVII. CYPERACEE. [Seleria 
echinulate. With Drosera indica in damp woods where Andropogon 
grows on the banks of the river Cuanza ; 12 March 1857. No. 7134. 
10. S. pulchella Ridl., J.c.; OC. B, Clarke, Uc, p. 674. 
Hurtira.—Achene prickly. With Eriocaulon, and species of Xyris 
on the lofty short-grassed pastures of Empalanca ; Dec. 1859, March 
and May 1860. No. 7141. 
11. S. remota Rid1., J.c., p. 169 (cum var. hispida), C. B. Clarke, l.c. 
Punco ANDONGO.—Apparently annual, erect, caspitose ; leaves 
strictly erect, hairy, broadly channelled, acutely keeled, and yellowish- 
green like the whole plant; culms acutely triquetrous with striate 
sides and with spreading hairs on the angles, never branched. Nut 
with a thick stalk, globose-trigonous, membranes subprominent  hori- 
zontally multicostate and muriculate. Plentiful but only in one 
locality in spongy rocky places near Catete ; 28 Feb. 1857. No. 7130. 
Achene prickly and mucronate. In damp wooded meadows between 
Serra de Pedras de Guinga and Candumba ; March 1857, No. 7129. 
Annual, culms 1 ft., erect, 2 to 5 growing from the same root, spike 
elongated, interrupted, spikelets half-whorled, dull brown. Higher 
damp slopes of Funda-Quilombo in the presidium; April 1857. 
No. 7131 (in part). Growing among mosses with another scirpoid 
plant on the heights of Pedra Songue ; April 1857. No. 71310. 
12. §. foliosa Hochst. ex A. Rich., fc, p. 509; Ridl., dc, 
p, 170; C. B, Clarke, i.c., p. 670. 
S. dumicola, Ridl., l.c., p. 169. 
Punco AnpDonGo.— Achenes snow-white, rugulose -tuberculate. 
Rather rare in thicket-grown marshes between Quilanga and Pedras de 
Guinga ; Jan. 1857. No. 7122. Achenes deeply and closely pitted. 
Damp meadows on the banks of the Cuanza near Muta-Lucala ; March 
1857. No. 7123. : 
13. S. clathrata Hochst. ex A. Rich., Zc. p. 510; Ridl, Le, 
p. 170; C. B. Clarke, de. 
Punco ANnponGo.—Achenes snow-white, longitudinally furrowed. 
Widely cxspitose in the higher marshy wooded meadows of Pedra 
de Guinga and Matta de Quilanga, Feb., between Caghuy and 
a te growing with Isoetes equinoctialis, April and May 1857. 
o. 7124. 
14. 8. powoides Ridl., U.c., (powoides) ; C. B. Clarke, ic, p. 674. 
Hoiiia.—Perennial, rhizome and root-fibres blood-red when alive, 
somewhat fleshy ; culms cxspitose very slender triquetrous, panicles 
lax, achene tuberculate crowned with a truncate mucro. Plentiful in 
sandy-spongy places at Quilebe near Huilla; in fl. and fr. end of Nov. 
1859. No. 7142. Smells like lemon when rubbed. Damp meadows 
near Catumba ; April 1860. CoLL. Carp. 1076, 
15. S. melanomphala Kunth, ic, p. 345; Ridl., ic., p. 171; 
C. B. Clarke, J.c., p. 672. 
Punco Anponco.—Perennial, 2} to 3} ft. high. On the marshy 
banks of small streams in wooded places near Quilongo but not plenti- 
ful; Feb. 1857. No. 7145. 
Huriia.—4 ft. high, cespitose ; spikes nodding ; glumes a splendid 
