liottbadlia] XXVIII. gkamine^e. 141 



spicuously 3-nerved back and incurved bluntly keeled edges, apex 

 bluntly emarginate, surface minutely scabridulous as is also the 

 exposed surface of the rhachis-joint and j)edicel ; inner barren 

 glume subequal, chartaceous, bluntly scaphoid with scabiidulous 

 keel and incurved edges embracing the third, which is slightly- 

 shorter, elliptical, with 2 converging nerves, epaleate, and like 

 the fertile glume hyaline ; fertile glume enclosed in the second 

 barren glume, 3-nerved and similar in shape subtending a 

 slightly shorter 2-nerved jjale with a ^ flower ; pedicel free, 

 broadly clavate, spikelet narrower and slightly shortei', other- 

 wise similar. 



Described from a single specimen : culm to base of inflorescence 

 14 in., subcompressed, the single exjiosed node shortly haix-y ; the 

 sheaths among which it springs show ti'aces of burning. First 

 sheath above the base 3 in. long, slightly shorter than the inter- 

 node, 1^ lines wide ; upper sheath narrower a little over 5 in. 

 long. Leaf-blades stiffish, subflattened with crLsped margin, sub- 

 conspicuously multinerved, with a few hairs at the rounded base, 

 otherwise glabrous, 1 'l in. long by scarcely i in. wide, or less. 

 Inflorescence 51 in. long, of 4 curving subcompressed racemes, 

 3 to 4 in. long, subdigitately arranged on a common axis 2 in. 

 long ; rhachis-joints, pedicel, and spikelets glabrous ; sessile spikelet 

 2 lines long, callus very short, scarcely |- line long ; outer glume 

 coriaceous; inner barren glume 1^^ line; fertile glume 1-2^ line, 

 pale 1 ] line. Pedicel little over 1 line long, spikelet 1^ line, 

 including like the sessile one $ flowei". 



A veiy distinct sjiecies, perhaps nearest to the Indian E. sjjeciosa 

 Hackel, but a smaller plant, distinguished by its smaller blunt 

 1 -flowered spikelets. 



HuiLi,.\. — In thinly grassed thickets near MumpuUa, rare; Oct. 1859. 

 Xo. 2648. 



8. MANISURIS Sw. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii.p. 1130. 

 1. M. granulans Linn. f. Nov. Gram. Gen. p. 37, figs. 4-7 (1779); 



Hack. Mon. Androp. p. 314 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afi-. v. 

 p. 700. 



M. polystachja Beauv. Fl. Owar. p. 24. t. xiv. (1805); Cenchnis 

 granularis L. Mant. p. 575 (1771). 



Gor.uxcio Alto. — Remarkable for its spikes almost entirely enclosed 

 in the sheaths. Sunny places Banza do Sova and Montalegre; Feb. 1855. 

 No. 7259. 



9. ISCH^MUM L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 1132. 

 1. I. fasciculatum Brongn. Yoy. Coqu. Bot. Pt. ii. p. 73 (1829) ; 



Hack. Mon. Androp. \k 235 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 

 p. 697. 



Hlm.i.a. — In damp rockv mountain places near the cataract of 

 Lopollo ; 31 Oct. 1859. No". 7484. 



