Son/Imm] xxvin. cramine.e. 151 



glume of sessile spikelet elliptical -ovate to ov.ate obtuse, about 

 -■) lilies lon<^ by 1| line broad, upper ] to }, chartaceous with 

 greenish nerves, flattened, sparsely pilosulose especially in the 

 upper half, depressed or not beneath the apex. Glumes almost 

 glabrous and polished when mature, gaping widely to expose the 

 reddish subglobular caryopsis with flattened hilum. Awn project- 

 ing about 2 lines, including knee, from the spikelet. Hheaths a ud 

 leaves tinged with blood-red. 



Hrii.LA. — SargJiinn red-seeded variety (Masambala rubro). Culti- 

 vated promiscuously with the white-seeded variety and very common 

 in all the country of Huilla ; Feb. and May 1860. No. 2681- 



Panicle small, lanceolate, rhachis and branches sparsely villous 

 to glabrous ; sessile spikelets broadly elliptical to ovate, 2|^ to 

 'Jw by I] to 11 lines; pedicelled spikelet slightly shorter, blunt, 

 unawned ; outer glume shining coriaceous, becoming more or less 

 chartaceous greenish and nerved in the upper I, sparsely hairy, 

 not depressed below the blunt apex. 



Princf/s Island. — In gravel near Porto de S. Antonio ; Sept. 1853. 

 Xo. 2932. 



Var. ovuliferum Hack., I.e., p. 510 ; Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 725. 

 Masambala bianco Welvv., I.e. 



Huilla. — Nearly always 5 to i), sometimes 7 to '.< ft. high, narrowly 

 erect, very beautiful and very productive. Very commonly cultivated 

 in all the country of Huilla, where it is called Masamballa (bianco) ; 

 April 18(50. No. 2682. 



Var. obovatum sul)var. nigrum Hack, I.e., p. 514. 



Very near var. saccharaturn but glumes becoming a deep black 

 when ripe, caiyopsis reddish-brown. 



LOANDA. — Sorghmn sarcharatum 'i Cultivated round Mossamedes, 

 where it was introduced in 18.')(;. National garden : Dec. 1 8.5'.'. No. 2882. 



MosSAMKDES. — Snrfjhum sacc/unvtuiii. cultivated at Lisbon from 

 seeds picked at Mossamedes ; taken in young and mature fruit ; July 

 1863. No. 2881. 



Huilla. — Sorghum mcchuratum cultivated in Lopollo in this year 

 for the first time from seeds from Lisbon, but almost entirely destroyed 

 in the Monanensian war. Colonel Kneisman's garden ; May 1860. 

 No. 2682i. 

 * Var. angolense Eendle var. nov. 



Panicle rather dense, elliptical-oblong or lanceolate, 5 to Q>\ in 

 long by 1-^ to 21 broad ; branches erecto-patent, lowermost 1 lo 

 2 in. ; rhachis more or less villous especially at branch-origins ; 

 sessile spikelet ovate to elliptical-ovate or elliptical, 1-;- to 2 lines 

 long by 1 or scarcely 1 broiid, pedicelled about .' to '; length of 

 sessile ; sessile generally awned, awn bent horizontally at tlie point 

 of emergence and proti'uding 1 .^ to 2 lines. Outer glume coriaceous 

 smooth and shiny to within ?. to | of the apex where it is greenish, 

 chartaceous, inconspicuously nerved and like the edges sparsely 

 hairy ; apex blunt ; subapical depres.sion often present. 



Ditters from var. saccharatuni in its smaller more shortly awned 

 or awnless spikelets, and denser panicle. 



