190 XXVIII. GRAMiNEyE. [Fennisetum 



Cultivated at Wehvitsch's country house ; in fi. Aug. 1854. No. 7298/'. 

 Native name ]Massango. 



IfoLo E Bexgo. — Common on the king's highway from Prata to 

 Quicanga, etc., often covering very wide areas in thick clumps, some- 

 times 2 to 3, sometimes H to 9 ft. high : Sept. 1864. No. 7267. 



G()LrNG(i ALPO.^Native name Marianga. A perennial grass, with 

 stems becoming woody below, 8, 12 to If) and even •20 ft. high : leaves 

 glaucous ; flowers pale yellowish or yellowish to reddish. Too plentiful 

 everywhere in the primaeval wooded region. Sange : in fl. July 1857. 

 No. 2767- No. 2884: (no notes). A gigantic grass, suffruticose, 

 branches erect often viviparous from the culm, culm 8 to 18 ft., spike 

 narrow, a foot long. Very plentiful and densely ca?spitose in secondary 

 thickets called Oipinar>i ; fl. and fr. July 1856. No. 7215. Rhachis 

 continuous, scarcely flexuose, thickly covered with spreading hairs. 

 Residency garden ; 14 Sept. 1856. No. 7384. Native name Massango. 

 Rhachis densely flexuose towards the top. Awns very long, blood-purple. 

 Banks of river Cuango : 13 and 14 Sept. 1856. No. 7298. (Massango). 



Pennisetiim Benthami Steiid. {P. macrostaduium Benth.) cannot 

 be separated from P. j^urpureum Sclnim. In several of Wel- 

 •witsch's specimens the seti\? are tinged with red or purple, forming 

 ai.. approach to the deep purple setae and glumes of Schumacher's 

 description, and occurring also in a plant from Guinea received 

 from Thonning on which Fliigge based his ms. species, and which 

 came to the British Museum in Herb. Nolte. 



5. P. setosum L. Rich, in Pers. Synops. i. p. 72 (1805); Durand 

 & Schinz, I.e., p. 784. 



P. pohjstachyum Schult. Mant. ii. p. 146 (1824); Benth., I.e. 

 P. purjmrascens H. B. & K. Nov. Gen. and Sp. i. p. 113 (1815). 



GoLUNGi) Alto. — A small erect plant, about 10 in. high, with a 

 delicate thinly flowered spike. In grassy sunny places between Sange 

 and Ponte de Luiz Simoes ; Feb. 1855. No. 7i81. Common in reedy 

 thickets on the left of the river Delamboa. Spikes when in flower a 

 splendid purple, becoming finally more or less dull purplish ; May 1855. 

 No. 7194. A grass 5 to 6 ft. high ; culm erect, branching above, spikes 

 elongated, golden-yellow, very acuminate, gi-aceful and nodding. 

 Rather rare, occurring with Anch-o/joi/un in somewhat dry places near 

 Menha Lula, Sobatode Mossangue : May 1SS5. No. 7274. Nos. 2967, 

 7232, 7262, 7267?^, 7267rf (no information). 



6. P. cenchroides L. Eich., I.e. 



P. eillare Link Hort. Berol. i. p. 213 (1827) ; Durand & Schinz, 

 I.e., p. 778. (Jenehrus ciliaris L. Mant. p. 302 (1771). 



Cape Verde Islands ?— No. 2922 (no information). 



LoANDA. — A grass 2 to 3 ft. high, laxly ciespitose : culms sometimes 

 straight, sometimes arcuate-ascending ; spikes purplish. Among 

 herbage near Quicuxe ; Oct. 1858. No. 7317. A panicoid grass, Avith 

 ca3spitose branched ascending culms, and purplish spikes. Common 

 in thicket-grown pastures between Penedo and Concei^-ao ; Jan. 185'.l. 

 No. 2920. ' No. 7481 (no information). 



3I()sSAMEDi;s. — A ciBspitose grass, with erect or ascending culms a 

 foot high, and purplish-green scabrid stiffish spikes an inch hmg. 

 Sandy places on the banks of the river Bero near the gardens ; 5 Aug. 

 1859. No. 2621. 



