<'i/mbapo(jo/i,] xxviii. gramine.i:. 159 



near edges of woods in Sobato deMussengue ; fl. Xov. I Sao. 1 to Gft. 

 high. By thickets near the Ambaca road ; 21 Nov. 1855. Xo. 7190. 

 Culm 9 ft. high, very hard ; when growing solitary becomes de- 

 cumbent and roots at all the lower nodes, and so a single plant 

 forms in a few months a very dense little wood. In reedy places 

 near Undele and Candombo, forming the so-called Capineta ; be- 

 ginning of June 1856. Xo. 2955. 5 to 8 ft. and higher, leaves 

 usually reddish, culm very hard. Plentiful in Capineta near Sange, 

 Bango ; June 1855. Xo. 2956. 5 to 8 ft., with nodding culms bear- 

 ing long very dense hairy rings at the nodes. (Irows sparsely by the 

 cataracts of the Cuango ; beginning of Aug. 1855. Xo. 3000. By 

 margins of thickets near the base of the Queta Mts., to the left of 

 the Cuango ; end of June 1855. Xo. 7248. 



Var. minor. Apparently a smaller less robust growing plant, 

 reaching about 3 ft. in height, nodes glabrous ; tiltimate spatbes 

 of intiorescence purplish, 2 in. long, the racemes of each j)air 

 often of equal strength, having two ? flowers ; awns strong 

 3 in. long. 



PuNtU) AND()N(i(). — Plentiful in the lofty mountain of Pedra de 

 Cabondo in the pr;«sidium ; middle of April 1857. Xo. 2820. In 

 rich woody places between Pungo Andongo and Catete : May 1857. 

 Xo. 7420. 



10. C. Humboldtii Spr., I.e., p. 15. 



Andropogon bracteatm Wilkl. Sp. PI. iv. p. 9U (1805); Hack., 

 I.e., p. 643. 



PuN(iO ANiJ()N(i().— Candumba : Jan. 1857. Xo. 2758. Attacked 

 by the same fungus as are the specimens from Huilla. 



Huii.L.A. — In grassy wooded places near Lake Ivantilla ; end of 

 Feb. 18G0. Xo. 7513. Sheaths of upper leaves barbato-pilose. In 

 wooded meadows at Monino ; April 1800 Xo. 7514. Very plentiful 

 in rather damp meadows l)etween Monino and Lake Tvantala ; end of 

 March ]8()(). Xo. 7512. In rather damp meadows of tall grass be- 

 tween Lopollo and Monino : Fel). 1860. Xo. 2657. 



In the last two numbers the spikelets have become deformed by 

 smut, which Miss Smith has determined as UstihKjo Ccsulii Fisch. de 

 Waldh., a species which like its host-plant is hitherto unrecorded for 

 the Old World. 



1 1. C. andongensis Rendle sp. nov. 



Perennial by a creeping woody much-branched rhizome, 

 rufescent; culms ascending, much-branched, nodes glabrous, 

 .sheaths loose, exceeding tiie internodes, glabrous or subglabrous 

 below hairy above, hairs long, soft, witli tuberculate base, ligule 

 subscarious, reddish, truncate, lamina narrow-linear tapering to 

 the base and aristiforin :ipex, midrib prominent, upper face 

 •scabridulous sometimes sparsely pilose, lower face minutely 

 scabridulous ; inflorescence laxly branched, linear or oval in 

 outline ; raceme pairs generally shorter than, rarely exceeding 

 the lanceolate acuminate spathe ; common peduncle and pedicels 

 subglabrous, one raceme subsessile, the other shortly stalked, the 

 former with a basal liomogamous ])air, each with 2 or 3 pairs of 

 heterogamous spikelets; a short blunt liguliform process below 



