'Tricholitna] xxviii. CiiiAMiNEyK. 195 



I.e. ; T. Dreiieana Durand & Schinz, I.e. ; Panicum Braunii Stead. ^ 

 I.e., p. 93. 



llhynchehjtliTum Dregeanutn Nees, /.c, p. 64. 



Loan DA. — A grass apparently lasting several years, laxly caespitose, 

 with stems ascending or suberect, branched, 2 to 3 ft. long. Spikelets 

 clothed with long closely clinging hairs of a very beautiful rose- violet : 

 one of the most elegant of grasses. Rather plentiful in sandy, 

 especially rather damp plains, but also in dry places, where the stems 

 are scarcely a foot long. Represa de Luiz Gomes in the Loanda 

 district : Jan. lH,-,9. No.'"2908. No. 7330 (no information). Cacuaco; 

 May 1854. No. 7472. A ciEspitose grass, with shining violet tiowers, 

 and the habit of Ami. Cacuaco on low hills covered with herbage ; 

 July 1854. Coll. Cari'. 114. 



Zkxza Do Golungo. — In dry rocky places near the river Calucala ; 

 Sept. 1854. No. 7211. 



GoJ.uxGi ) Alto. — A grass 2 to 4 ft. high, remarkable from its shining- 

 .silvery spikelets. In damp meadows on the edges of woods in Sobato 

 da Bumba : May 1855. No. 7243- Flowers a beautiful silvery-violet. 

 In wooded meadows. Sobato da Bumba : Dec. 1855. No. 7241- 

 (■) to K ft. high, culms prostrate-ascending, rooting at the nodes. By 

 the cataracts of the river Cuango near Cacuso : beginning of Augus't 

 1855. No. 3002. No. 7242 (no information). 



PuNGO Andongo. — A grass 3 to 3i ft., apparently annual and also 

 perennial, panicle shiny-violet, conspicuous among all the gras.^^es of the 

 district, and a striking ornament in rather damp meadows and pastures, 

 where it grows in great quantity. Plentiful in rather damp thicket- 

 grown pastures close by the banks of the river Cuanza near Candumba, 

 etc. ; Jan. 1857. No. 2774. Lombe in rather damj:) meadows ; very 

 beautiful ; March 1857. No. 2721. Spikelets becoming violet. In 

 rocky thickets in the prassidium ; May 1857. No. 2828. 



Mossamede.s. — In sandy places covered with short bushes at the 

 banks of the river Bero near Cavalheiros : July 1859. No. 2288. 



HliiLLA. — In wooded meadows of Morro de Monino, now almost 

 entirely fed down ; May 18()0. No. 2664. In abandoned fields and 

 neighbouring thickets, and also among maize plantations throughout 

 the whole country of Lopollo. Affords excellent fodder for cattle. 

 April 1860. No. 2665. A grass 3 to 4 ft. high, laxly cifspitose, 

 narrow-leaved, flowers panicled, shining purple at first, then cinnamon. 

 Plentiful in rather damp meadows near Lopollo ; in fr. April I860. 

 Coll. Carp. 1111. 



The spikelets vary much iu size in diflferent specimens, from 

 1^ to nearly 3|- lines long. The largest occur in the Mossamedes 

 [)laTit. With so com2)lete a gradation in size the establishment 

 of major or minor varieties is meaningless. 



Var. collina Rendle vai-. nov. 



Smaller than the type with slender rigid shoots (14 to 18 in. 

 high) spreading from the base and short rigid genei-ally convolute 

 leaves. Lower internodes I line in diameter ; leaves l.V to 5 in. 

 generally 2 to 4 in. long, and when not convolute about l.\ line 

 broad. Spikelets 1^ to 2 lines long, hairs reddish or almost white. 



Ambriz.— Nov. 1853. No. 2894. 



LoAXDA. — Low hills near Quifandongo : Dec. 1K53. No. 7309. 

 Dry places near Maianga do Povo ; July 1858. No. 'iZQQb. Hills near 

 Cacuaco ; Dec. 1853. No. 7342. 



