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plant on Platform Island. And a flat prostrate plant, with short 

 broad leaves and short blunt spikes, which is very plentiful on 

 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 witb 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 ; Steud. 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. viEGATA, Sio. Fl. Ind. Occ. i. p. 203 ; Boem. S,- ScJrnlt. 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 

 and growing with it in Chaloupe Bay. In Sponge Bay there 

 was a smaller prostrate form. 



Distribution. West Indies and Brazil. 



GrTMNOPOGON ETJPESTEE, n. Sp. 



Herba rigidula ad l|-pedalis. Culmi plures graciles ferme ad 

 inflorescentiam foliati. Folia dissita linearia erecto-patula, 4-5 

 uncias longa, ^ unciam lata, acuminata pubescentia. Vaginis 

 Ig-uncialibus, ligula et marginibus vaginae albo ciliatis. Ehachis 

 tenuis breviuscula, spicse dissitse tenues ad basin albo pubescentes, 

 ferme 3-unciales, pallidge. Glumae inferiores angustse lineares 

 acutae, scabridse. Gluma fertilis ad basin pubescens, pilis albidis, 

 anguste lanceolata. Arista longa scabra. Gluma terminaHs 

 angustissime linearis, caryopsis linearis brunnea. Ehachilla 

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



This grass was tolerably abundant in Portuguese Bay, growing 

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

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

 of Tangle Eock. 



Eeageostis ciliaets. Link, Rort. 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 Eat Island. 



Distribution. All warm countries, but especially abundant in 

 Brazil. 



