200 XXVIII. cRAMiNE.f;. [Melini^ 



prominence of the veins, the size of the minute lowest barren 

 glume, and the presence or length of the awn on the thii-d glume. 

 The awn may be present or absent in the same panicle. Gls. II. 

 and III. may be glabrous or slightly hauy. 



Var. inermis Doell in Mart. Flor. Bras. ii. pt. 2. p. 242 (1877). 



GoLUN(K) Ai.To. — Perhaps a variety of the grass called Capim 

 rneJndo. Rather rare in sunny gi'assy places on the Cuango near 

 Sange ; Feb. 1855. No. 2991. 



Var. biaristata Eendle var, nov. 



Spikelets narrow {\\ line long), gl. II. with an awn nearly-^ the 

 length of that of gl. III., which is often 1 in. or more in length. 



PuNCiO Andonco. — Sandy thickets near the edges of woods hard by 

 the Quilanga road : May 1857. No. 2830. 



Var. efiusa Rendle var. nov. 



Panicle effuse, often large, branchlets capillary, flexuose, 

 spikelets small (not exceeding ^^ line in length), long-stalked, more 

 oval than in the type with glumes broader in proportion to their 

 length ; gl. III. oval with a long capillary awn. 



PuNGo ANOONfM). — Common in sandy wooded places near Luxillo 

 and Cazella ; May 1857. No. 2831. 



G()LUN(;() Alto. — A grass conspicuous for its beautiful violet-red 

 spikelets, in poor soil in sunny places uear Cambondo : June 1855. 

 No. 2958. No. 2973 (no information). 



2. M. angolensis Rendle sp. nov. 



Habit of M. mimdiflora, culms stoutish, cylindrical, closely 

 enveloped in the lower half by the hairy sheaths ; leaves lanceo- 

 late, acute, stifi", spreading ; panicle dense, lanceolate ; spikelets 

 glabrous, \]v line long; lowest barren glume very minute; gl. II. 

 ovately-oval, convex, with 7 well-max-ked nerves, midrib carinulate, 

 prolonged into a short weak awn between the shoi-t rounded apical 

 lobes ; gl. III. slightly shorter and narrower than gl. II., 

 7-nerved, apex emarginate, unawned, with a nari'ow hyalme pale 

 and a ^ flower ; fertile gl. slightly shorter, hyaline, ovately oval, 

 very inconspicuously 5-nerved, apex emai-ginate, with a similai- 

 subequal blunt pale. 



Shoots 3 ft. long, unbranclied except at the lower nodes ; inter- 

 nodes with sheath, 1 line in diameter, 1 to 1^. in. long in lower half 

 of shoot, becoming longer (3 to 5 in.) below the inflorescence; 

 nodes where exposed shortly hairy; sheaths with stiffish white 

 hairs from a reddish-brown tubercle ; ligule a dense ridge of 

 whitish hairs about 1 line long ; blade 1^ to 3 in. long, S-^ to 5 

 lines broad, base rounded, tapering above to a long point, flattened, 

 surface glabrous, margin sparsely ciliate. Panicle 5 in. long by 



I in. greatest breadth a little above the base, branches alternate 

 except at the base, the lower 1 1 to 2 in. long, sharply ascending ; 

 spikelets shortly stalked, crowded on the short branchlets ; gl. I. 

 ^ line long, semicircular with a fringe of hairs at its base ; gl. II. 



I I line, apex shortly bifid, membranous between the prominent 

 parallel nerves; gl. III. Ij line, oval, more membranous than 



