136 xxviii. GRAMiXE.E. [S'acc/ucriciii 



2. SACCHARUM L. ; Benth. ct Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 1125. 



1. S. officinarum L. Sp. PI. p. 54 (1753) ; Hack. Mon. Androp. 

 p. Ill; Duraud & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 094. 



Goi.u\(;() Alto. — In sugar plantations on the banks of the Luinha : 

 Dec. 1855. No. 2901. 



MosSAMEDES. — Saccharura violaceum? Culm straw-yellow streaked 

 longitudinally with purple-violet bands. Cultivated commonly for 

 sugar and brandy, formerly introduced from Brazil by Portuguese 

 colonists. Called by the inhabitants Canna imperialis. Fazenda de 

 Purifica^ao near Cavalheiros ; 27 Aug. 1859. No. 2283. 



2. S. MuiiroanumHack.,Z.c.,p. 124; Durand&Schinz, ?.c.,p.694. 

 Eriochrijsis jxdlida Munro in Harvey Gen. S. Afr. PI. ed. ii. 



p. 440 (1868). 



HuiLLA. — Two feet high, widely cfespitose. with the habit of Ifolcus, 

 spikes a tawny gold colour. Common in peaty places about Humpata ; 

 beginning of Dec. 1859. Common in wooded damp rather peaty 

 meadows between LopoUo and the river Moniuo : conspicuous from 

 its splendid gold colour ; Nov. 1859, Jan. and Feb. 1860. No. 2642. 



3. POLLINIA Spr. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 1127. 



1. P. villosa 8preng. Syst. Veget. i. p. 288 (1825) ; Hack. Mon. 

 Androp. p. 157. 



Eulalia villosa Nee.s Fl. Afr. Austr. p. 91 (1841). 



HuiLLA. — On rocks in the mountainous district of Morro de Monino, 

 but seen only in one place ; April 1860. No. 7485. 



2. P. (§ Eulalia) huillensis Rendle sp. nov. 



Perennial from a nodose creeping rhizome beaiing remains of 

 old shoots above and numerous tough wiry roots, with a shorter 

 leafy shoot and a long slender terete culm ending in the inflor- 

 e.scence ; lowest sheath glabrous, broad, loose below, becoming 

 narrower and convolute in the upper half and passing impercept- 

 ibly into the convolute terete setiform blade ; ligule membranous, 

 pyramidal with a truncate retuse apex ; sheaths of cauline leaves 

 becoming longer and blades shorter ; inflorescence of 3 fasciculate 

 spikes, on a very much shortened common axis ; spikelets one- 

 flowered, more or less tinged with purple and thinly covei-ed with 

 white silky hairs ; pedicel and rhachis-joint similarly hairy, 

 slender, subequal ; glume I. o\'al-oblong tapering above with 

 narrowly incurved edges forming submarginal slightly pz'ominent 

 keels, and 5 subprominent green nerves on the shallowly rounded 

 back, callus clavate with densely hairy edges about one-fifth the 

 length of the glume ; gl. II. narrower than the outer, 3-nerved 

 .slightly monocarinate with inrolled shortly hairy margins otherwise 

 glabrous ; gl. III. hyaline, oblong-ovate, tapering gradually up- 

 ward to a blunt rounded apex, 2-nerved with 2 marginal keels 

 which are densely shortly hairy in the upper part ; fertile glume 

 narrowly lineai'-lanceolate, hyaline, 3-nerved, entire, the upper 

 third thickened and passing into a flexuo.se awn more than four 

 times the length of the spikelet ; awn yellowish and shortly hairy 



