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BOTANY OF FEENANDO NOBONHA. 73 



plant on Platform Island. 



with 



very 



the roads near Sambaquichaba and Fort San Antonio. Doell, 

 in the ' Flora Brasiliensis,' describes the leaves of this species as 

 "glabra vel glabriuscula " ; but most of the Brazilian specimens 

 I have seen have distinctly hairy leaves with numerous white cilia. 

 Distribution. The whole of the warm parts of the world. 



Chloeis baebata, Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. i. p. 200; Doell in 

 Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. pt. 3, p. 67 ; Stout, p. 204. 



Common grass, growing between the stones of the walls and 

 paths, also plentiful in the Sapate and in Chaloupe Bay, where 

 it attains the height of five feet. 



Distribution. "World-wide. 



C. vibgata, Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. i. p. 203; Boem. $ Schult. Syst. 

 ii. 6. p. 8 ; Doell in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. p. 65, t. xviii. 



Along the paths in the Sapate. Also as tall as the preceding 



ana growing with it in Chaloup 

 was a smaller prostrate form. 

 Distribution. West Indies and 



Gtmnopogon eupestee, n. sp. 



In Sponge Bay there 



inflorescentiam foliati. 



•pedalis 



es ferme ad 

 patula, 4-5 



uncias longa, ^ unciam lata, acuminata pubescentia. Vaginis 

 l|-uncialibus, ligula et marginibus vaginae albo ciliatis. Bhachis 

 tenuis breviuscula, spicae dissitae tenues ad basin albo pubescentes, 

 ferme 3-unciales, pallida*. G-lumae inferiores angustae lineares 

 acutae, scabridae. Gluma f ertilis ad basin pubescens, pilis albidis, 

 anguste lanceolata. Arista longa scabra. Gluma terminalis 

 angustissime linearis, caryopsis linearis brunnea. Bhachilla 

 producta scabrida, flore sterili gluma vacuo, basi pilosa, sistente. 

 This grass was tolerably abundant in Portuguese Bay, growing 

 on the cliffs in tufts with Hyptis suaveolens. It also occurred 

 along the woodcutters' track in the Sapate, and on the summit 

 of Tangle Rock. 



Eeageostis ciliaeis, Link, Hort. Berol. p. 192.— Poa ciliaris, 

 L. Syst. ed. 10, p. 82, n. 590. 



Plentiful along the paths and on the rocks near the village, 

 and at Leao, at the Sapate, and on the Peak. Also on the paths 

 in Kat Island. 



Brazil 



ution. All warm countries, but especially abundant 





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