■Oplismenus\ xxviii. gramine.e. 185 



0. Burmannii, Beauv. Agrost., I.e. ; Durand & Schinz, I.e. <). 

 broraoides Beauv., I.e. 0. multisetus A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyt^s. ii. 

 p. 377 (1851). Panicum Burmanni Retz. Obs. iii. p. 10 (17.S.3). 

 P. bromoides Lam. 111. p. 170 (1791), Encycl. iv. 732 (1795-G). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — In grassy wooded places at Cungulungulo ; April 

 185C). Xo. 7203. A caespitose grass, with procumbent rooting stem ; 

 culms flaccid, somewhat nodding when mature ; leaves more or less 

 undulate. In rather damp palm country, near the base of Monte 

 Queta, to the left of the river Cuango ; not plentiful ; July 1855. 

 Xo. 7252. In maize-fields near Sange (Arimo do Mariano) ; end of 

 August 1855. Xo. 3003. 



HriLLA. — Culms very laxly caespitose, decumbent. In shady 

 wooded places on the river Monino, but not at all plentiful ; April 1860. 

 Xo. 2696. 



25. SETARIA Beauv. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 1105. 



1. S. glauca Beauv. Agrost. p. 51 (1812); Durand & Schinz, 

 Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 773. 



Panieum glaitcavi var. y. L. Sp. PI. p. 56 (1753). P. glaueum L. 

 Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 870 (1759) ; Stend, Syn. PI. Gram. p. 50 (1854). 



GoLUNGo Alto. — Panicoid, very like the European species of 

 Settiria, crespitose, annual, very quickly disappearing. In places which 

 have been cultivated and abandoned, and in sunny sandy-clayey places 

 near Sange ; Jan. 1855. Xo. 2980. Caespitose in sunny sparsely 

 grassy places near Canaulo (Caminho dAmbaca) ; April 1855. Xo. 

 7204. Xot plentiful in sunny, sparsely grassy places and in abandoned 

 fields round Canaulo and Camilungo ; very quickly disappears ; 

 Jan. 1855. Xo. 7233. 



Pux(io ANDO\(io.— Luxillo ; end of April 1857. Xo. 2736. Plenti- 

 ful in sandy places with short grass, near Ponte de Luxillo ; Jan. 1857. 

 Xo. 2738. In wooded meadows in the prsesidium ; Feb. and March 

 1857. Xo. 2788. 



HuiLLA. — Plentiful in pastures grown with short thicket in the 

 Lopollo district ; Feb. 1860. Xo. 2683. Edges of maize fields near 

 Xene ; April 1860. Xo. 2684. 



2. S. verticillata Beauv., I.e. ; Durand it Schinz, I.e., p. 774. 

 Panieum verticillatum Ii. Sp. PI. ed ii. p. 82 (1762); Steud., ^.c, 



p. 52. 



GoLrN(io Alio. — Among reeds and in places once cultivated, now 

 covered with tall grasses, but not plentiful, near Arimo do Isidro ; 

 Feb. 1855. Xo. 2979- An annual grass, ascending or erect, a great 

 imisance to farmers. In places no longer cultivated between Sange 

 and Ambaca : very plentiful in certain spots : May 1856. Xo. 7212. 

 An annual gi-ass, widely creeping, almost climbing, sticking closely to 

 surrounding objects by means of the reversed barbs on the set;e of 

 the spikelets. In places no longer cultivated among mandioc planta- 

 tions, etc., around Sange and Bango : July 1855. Xo. 7266. Xo. 7231 

 (no information). 



MossAMEDES. — In sandy thickets near the river Bero, or Rio dos 

 mortes ; Aug. 1859. Xo. 2293. In sandy thickets on the river Bero, 

 Mata dos Carpinteiros ; Aug. 1869. Xo. 2293/a 



3. S. "Welwitschii Rendle .sp. nov. 



Erect apparently widely branching strong-growing culm.s 



