Trichokena'] xxviii. (UIAmine-e. 199 



becoming membranous in the upper third, obovate wlien flattened, 

 with 2 parallel nerves on each side the midrib anastomosing below 

 the apex, apex bilobed, margin ciliate in the upper two-thirds, 

 midrib bearing a median dorsal tuft of hairs, awn fine, about 

 2i times the length of the glume; gl. Til. similar but narrowei-, 

 slightly shorter, and membranous, with a marginal tuft of hairs 

 on each side ; pale narrow, hyaline, slightly shorter ; fertile gl. '.; 

 the length of the spikelet, glabrous, thinly coriaceous, transparent, 

 <dliptical with shortly bilobed apex, inconspicuously 3-nerved, 

 enclosing a slightly shorter pale. 



Plants 3 ft. high ; internode below the flowering one 6 to 7 lines 

 long, the lower H to 2 in. long, 1 line or less in width, clothed 

 with the numerous reddish sheaths ; ligule about \ line long ; 

 leaves from 1 to 3] in. long by \l to 3.^ lines broad. Panicle 

 about 4 in. long, generally less than 1 in. in width, previous 

 internode 9 to 10 in., branches solitary, ascending to suberect, 

 bearing numerous short slender flexuose branches. 8pikelets 

 truncate-elliptical, 1| line long; gl. I. hyaline, oblong, truncate, 

 i line long ; callus below gl. II. bearing a lateral tuft of hairs ; 

 gl. II. a Httle over 1 line long, awn 2f lines; gl. III. 1 line long; 

 fertile gl. ^ ^ne long. 



RecalUng T. scahrida K. Schum. in habit, but a very distinct 

 species characterised by its small laterally much-compressed 

 spikelets, and tufted-hairy subcoriaceous awned glumes. 



PuNGO Andongo.— A cfespitose grass, ?> ft. high, with habit of 

 Holcus. Plentiful, but in one place only, in the dry rocky woods near 

 Sansamanda on the river Cuanza, and on the rocks near Sepulchra 

 Mopopo ; 30 Apr. 1857. No. 2731. 



The following may belong to the genus, l)ut in absence of 

 flowers determination is impossible : — 



PuN(;o Andon(;().— Dec. 18.06. No. 2762. 



31. MELINIS Beauv.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 1119. 



1. M. minutiflora Beauv. Agi-ost. p. 54 (1812); Durand &, 

 Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 735. 



Panicum Melinis Tr'm. in Mem. Acad. Sci. Petei-sb. ser. 16. 

 iii. pt. 2. p. 291 (1834) ; Steud. Syn. PL Gram. p. 84 (1854). 



G()LUN(;(> Alto.— Panicles broadly pyramidal and a deep purple 

 wine-colour, an ornament of the pastures but from the viscosity of 

 stem and leaves a great nuisance and disliked by cattle. Grows in 

 dense masses in damp meadows, and also, but more rarely, in dry 

 thickets near Sange and in the whole province of Golungo. Called 

 Caplm inelado by the Portuguese colonists from the stickiness of stem 

 and leaves ; Dec. 1854. No. 2992. Common in damp wooded places 

 at Cungulungulo ; Apr. 185G. No. 7198. 



Pun(;<)Am)0\(;<).— Thickets between Cateteand Luxillo : May 1H57. 

 No. 7392. A cfespitose grass, 3 to 4 ft high, with ascending culms. 

 In lofty rocky places at Pedra Caboudo ; Apr. 1857. No. 2729. 



The spikelets vary in length from 2 to nearly \] lino, in the 

 width of the glumes, especially of gl. III., the greater or U'ss 



