Cymhoirjgott'] xxvni. tiUAMiXE.E. 157 



tion oblique ; $ spikelet 3^- to 3.! lines long, including the callu.- 

 (scarcely j line) ; gl. I. 2.V line, the truncate apex crimson and 

 scarious, and the upper half more or less tinged with red, sparsely 

 puberulous on the back ; gl. II. ovate and truncate when flattened, 

 membranous, ti-ansparent. tinged with red in the upper half ; 

 gl. III. 21 line ; gl. IV. IH line ; pedicel of stalked spikelet IJ to 

 1 2 line, gl. I. 3| to nearly 4 lines long, back glabrous, slightly 

 scaberulous upwards, margin inflexed, carinate and scabrid in 

 the upper third, embracing the flattened hyaline inflexed gl. II. 

 (21 lines long). 



Near C. diplaudrus, but distinguished by its longer, darkei- 

 coloured, purplish racemes, the long-acute, barren, pedicelled 

 spikelets, and the longer-awned ^ spikelets. 



Goi,ux(;(> Ai.To. — Native name Mosoque, i.e. Mosake. Sparsely 

 thicket-grown slopes, in sandy-clayey soil in the mountains of Sobatn 

 de Bumba ; Oct. 18r>;j. No. 7193- Perhaps the stems are so low from 

 being new shoots after the forest fires. Growing in broad tufts in 

 sunny places near Fonte Capopa: end of Sept. 1865. No. 7226. 



6. C. elegans Spr., I.e. 



Androjxxjon cjjmbarnis L. Mant. p. 303 (1771) ; non Hack., /.c, 

 p. 629. 



Goi.rNCJo Alto. — .5 to 8 ft. and higher, culm ascending at the base^ 

 bearing aerial I'oots at the nodes, branched above, panicle huge, nodding 

 at the top. Habit of an Andni/inj/o,/, In marshes dried up in winter 

 in the woods of Monte de Queta, Ijut in few places ; in fl. June and 

 July 18.56. No. 7300. Thickets and highways near N-dele and 

 Cacarambola ; begining to wither ; Sept. 1854. No. 2974 



7. C. filipendulus. 



AiidropCKjoji JiUpendidus Hochst. in Flora xxxi. p. 115 (1846) ; 

 Hack., I.e., p. 034 ; Durand & 8chinz, I.e., p. 712. 



Var. angolensis Rendle var. nov. 



Ultimate s}»athes excei'ding the common peduncle of the pair 

 oP racemes ; spikelets, excepting the margins, glabrous. 



Hrn.LA.— Lofty thickets of Morro de Monino : May 180* ». No. 7524. 

 No. 2948/' (no notes). 



The following may belong to this species. 



Pi'Nco AM)(>N(i(). — In marshy meadows near Sansamanda ; end of 

 Feb. 1857. No. 2783/^. Forest meadows near Sansamanda ; May 1857. 

 No. 2773. Both specimens have been disfigured by a fungus Ustdago- 

 Cesatii Fisch. de Waldh. (determined by Miss Smith). 



8. C. finitimus, 



Andro2Jogon Jinitimus Hochst. ex A. Rich., I.e., p. 4G5 ; Hack.,. 

 I.e., p. 637 ; Durand & Schinz, I.e. 



PrNco AxDDNci). — A grass of gregarious growth. 4 to (3 ft. high. 

 with branched culms. Plentiful in secondary thickets at the base of 

 huge rocks near Caghuy ; 28 March 1857. No. 2838- 



9. C. Welwitschii Rendle sp. nov. 

 Andropogon Ghrysopogon Welw. ms. in herb. 



Tall, 2 to 9 ft. high, with strong generally erect culms un- 

 branched in the lower part, or decumbent at the base and rooting 



