Andropo(jon] xxviii. ghamine.e. 143 



Var. gracilis Rendle var. nov. 



Spikes very slender, with slender glal)rous rhachis-joint.s. 



An erect plant 4 ft. high, culms densely leaved at the stout 

 base, leaf-blades linear, acute, 8 to 10 in. long, 2 to 3 lines broad ; 

 spikes 3~ to 4^ in. long, rather lax. 



PuNfio ANDoNciO ? (no information). No. 2869. 



The following number, which is inadequately represented in 

 Herb. Mus. Brit., probably belongs to this species : — 



Pux(;o Axu()N(;o.— Thin woods near Calundo: March 1857. No. 7438. 



4. A. lopollensis Rendle sp. nov. 



Appai-ently perennial, casspitose, glabrous excepting the spikes, 

 culms springing from the tufts of leaves, short (9 to 14 in.), 

 fiexuose above, bearing short branches which like the main 

 axis end in a solitary pedunculate spike ; leaf-sheaths short, 

 compressed, subcarinate, much less than the compressed inter- 

 node ; ligule short, membranous, trnncate ; blades rigid, linear, 

 folded along the midrib, blunt, of the radical leaves falcate, of 

 the cauline much shorter, and subpatent ; spikes ultimately 

 exceeding the narrowly lanceolate reddish spathes, peduncles 

 erect, spikes short with 8 to 9 pairs of reddish heterogamous 

 spikelets and a terminal male spikelet ; rhachis-joint shorter than 

 the sessile spikelet, clavate, ending in a short irregular scarious 

 cup, external margin and front bearing long white hau's over- 

 topping the joint ; sessile spikelet oblong-lanceolate, blunt, sparsely 

 hauy in the lower half ; outer glume with carinate scabridulous 

 margins and flat 4-nerved back, nerves becoming very faint 

 below, apex bidenticulate ; gl. II. subequal, linear-oblong, one- 

 nerved, blunt, margin in upper half incurved, hyaline, ciliolate ; 

 gl. III. hyaline, suboblong, apex retuse, enerved ; fertile glume 

 suboblong, apex shortly bifid, awn weak, imperfect, springing 

 from the notch, equal in length to the glume ; pedicelled spikelet 

 (J, compressed, lanceolate and acuminate, slightly smaller than 

 the sessile, pedicel similar to rhachis-joint; gl. I. with keeled 

 ciliolate margins, back 5-nerved, apex 3-nerved; gl. II. slightly 

 .shorter, 3-nerved, lanceolate-oblong, margin as in sessile spikelet ; 

 gl. III. broadly suboval from a truncate base, hyaline, blunt, 

 margin ciliolate, inconspicuously 2-nerved ; gl. IV. oval, subacute, 

 hyaline, inconspicuously 3-nerved. 



Specimen consisting of young shoots springing up after 

 burning. Leaves scabridulous on the exposed lower face, the 

 i-adical reaching 31 to 4 in. in length by 1^ line wide; the 

 cauline about as wide, 2 in. long below diminishing to less than 

 1 in. in the upper part of the culm ; sheaths about 1 in. long. 

 "Ultimate spathe about 13 lines; spikes 1^ in. Ehachis-joints 

 1^ line long ; sessile spikelet 2-i to nearly 3 lines long ; gl. II. 

 subequal to or shghtly shorter than gl. I., 2^ to 2^ lines long, 

 membranovis, transparent, tinged with red ; gl. III. a little 

 over 2 lines long, margins incurved, tinged with red ; fertile 

 glume 2 lines, or 4 lines including the awn. Pedicel and c? 



