150 x.wiii. (jRA.MrxE.'E. [Andro2)ogo7i 



Subgenus VI. JHcantJduvi. 



17. A. annulatus Forsk. var. papillosus Hook. f. Kl. Brit. Ind. 

 vii. p. 197 (1896). 



A. 2)apiUosi(s Hochst. ex A. Kich., I.e., p. 157 ; Hack.. I.e., 

 p. 573 ; Dvu-aiid & Schinz, I.e., p. 719. 



Loan DA. — A tall erect grass H to 4i ft., with branched culms and 

 Andropogon-\ike habit. Very common on sandy rather damp plains and 

 stretches of Fiinhvixtyliii between Os dois Imbondeiros and Quicuxe ; 

 ('. and 7 Feb. 1859. No. 2912. A grass 3 ft. high with European 

 habit, growing in rather damj) places from Quicuxe towards Cacuaco. 

 but not common ; June 1858. No. 7315. No. 7323 (no notes). 



Mos.SAMEDES. — 3 to nearly 4 ft., branched from the base, culms 

 erect- ascending branched, spikes dull purple. In thickets on gneiss 

 cHffs on the banks of the Bero ; July 1859. No. 2609. 



18. A. piptatherus Hack, in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. 3. p. 293 (1883). 

 Vai\ genuinus Hack. Men. Androp. p, 580 ; Durand & Schinz. 



I.e., p. 720. 

 GoLUNGO Ai.To? No. 7244 (no information). 



11. SORGHUM Pers. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 1135. 

 1. S. halepense Pars. Sjaiop. i. p. 101 (1805). 

 A ndropogonSorgh^mn subsp. /i«/e;)e?ms Hack. Mon. Androp. p. 50 1 . 

 Var. halepense subvar. muticum Hack., I.e., p. 502. 

 Madeira. — Funchal on the road towards Camera dos Lobos : Aug. 

 1853. No. 2917. 



Var. effiisum subvar. aristatum Hack., I.e., p. 503. 



Ambkiz.— Nov. 1853. No. 2898. 



Cazengo. — A grass 4 to 7 ft., with the habit of llolrux or Afena, 

 and a huge nodding panicle. Common in once cultivated places almost 

 everywhere in the districts of Cazengo and Golungo Alto. Caculo : 

 June 1855. No. 2994. 



IcoLo E BENCio. — In rather damp places inundated in summer on the 

 left of the river Bengo ; Sept. 185G. No. 7197. Banks of river Bengo 

 between Quifandongoand Funda ; Sept. 1854. Coll. Caki'. 1108. 



LoANDA. — A grass 4 to 12 ft. high, annual or more rarely in damp 

 places biennial, culm erect, branched from the middle, and like the 

 leaves spotted with a deep blood-red colour. Found growing sporadically 

 in damp places once cultivated near Imbondeiro dos Lobos ; June 18r)8. 

 No. 7277. Called Massambala by the blacks. No. 7331 (no notes). 



Subvar. submuticuin Hack., I.e., p. 503. 

 Ambhiz. — Nov 1853. No. 



2. S. vulgare Pars., I.e. 



AndropogonSwghum Bvot. Fl. Lusit. i. p. 88 (1804); A. Soryhuiu 

 subsp. sativus Hack., I.e., p. 505. 



Var. saccharatuin Koern. in Koern. tfe Warn. Handb. Getreid. i. 

 p. 310 pro parte vel aff. ; Hack., I.e., p. 509; Duraud & Schiii/-, 

 I.e., p. 725; Masambala vubro Walw. Syn. Explic. p. 35 (1862). 



Young panicle narrowly elliptical and dense, 5 by \h in., the 

 lowest branches about 1 in. long ; base of the main rhachis and 

 insertion of its branches villous, edges of branches scabrid. Outer 



