58 THE PLANTS OF MILANJI, NYASA-LAND, 
A perennial tufted grass with a hard rhizome ; the annual shoots surrounded at the 
base with the dried persistent leaf-sheaths, of which the internal ones are covered more or 
less with a woolly pubescence. The slender leafy culm is almost completely covered by 
the leaf-sheaths, woolly pubescent where exposed, is flattened, erect, flexuose, overtopped 
by the radical leaves and those of the leafy shoots, 7-10 inches long. The leaf-sheaths 
are long and smooth; the ligule is reduced to a ring of short hairs; the linear flexuose 
blades have a strong keel, closely involute edges, and a pungent apex, those of the radical 
leaves are 8-9 inches long, that of the upper leaf of the culm 1-13 inches. The inflores- 
cence is a falcate, unilateral, or sometimes distichous spike 13-2 inches long; the spikelets 
are 24 lines long, with one flower and two upper barren glumes. The outermost glume 
is membranous with hyaline edges, compressed and boat-shaped, when opened out narrow, 
triangular, with a blunt apex, light brown, with a dark keel and no lateral veins, 24 lines 
long; the second is somewhat similar, but slightly shorter and of a long oval shape; the 
short rhachilla beneath the flowering glume bears short tufts of hairs. The folded flowering 
glume is lanceolate, when opened out ovate, with a bifid apex ; the sides are delicately 
membranous, with a purple tinge; the strong keel and margins are densely ciliate, with 
straw-coloured hairs, 13 lines long; the included narrow hyaline pale is deeply bicarinate 
and slightly shorter. The two upper barren glumes are smaller, thin, hyaline, truncate, 
with an emarginate apex, about 1 line long, the lower oval-oblong, the upper narrower. 
Hab. Milanji, 6000 ft., Oct. 1891 (4. Whyte, no. 64); Nyasa-land, 1891 (Buchanan, 
no. 163); Transvaal, Aug. 1880 (Nelson, no. 14); Natal. 
Easily distinguished from H. capensis, Kunth, the only species of the genus hitherto 
described, by its larger, narrower, and less rigid leaves exceeding the spike, which is also 
narrower and more delicate, the smaller spikelet, the near approach to equality in the 
two outermost glumes, the shape of the upper barren glumes, and the absence of a third 
staminate flower. 
TRICHOLANA ROSEA, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. i. p. 17. 
Hab. Milanji, Oct.; S. Africa. 
'TRICHOLJENA aff. T. LEUCANTHA, Hochst. ex Steud. Gram. p. 92. 
No leaves; specimen insufficient for determination. 
Hab. Milanji, Oct. 
ANDROPOGON HIRTUS, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1046. 
Hab. Milanji, Oct. ; Europe, Asia, and Africa. 
K«ELERIA CRISTATA, Pers. Synops. i. p. 97. 
Hab. Milanji, Oct.; Nyasa-land, 1891 (Buchanan, no. 991); Europe— Caucasus, 
ERAGROSTIS, cf. E. MINOR, Host, Fl. Austr. i. p. 135. 
Material insufficient for determination. 
Hab. Milanji, Oct. 
