Jfelinis] wviii. cramine.i:. 201 



gl. II., margin as in gl. II. minutely ciliate above the middle, 

 pale scai'cely 1 line ; fertile gl. 1 line. 



Distinguished from jlf. mimdijlora by its larger spikelets, the 

 awned second and blunt third bai-ren glume, and the presence of 

 a (^ flower in the axil of the latter. 



PuxGO Andonoo.— Called l)y the colonists Cap'nit de CaralUi. Lofty 

 mountains at Pedra de Cabondo in the presidium; middle of April 1857. 

 No. 2819. 



3. M. Welwitschii Rendle sp. nov. 



Widely cagspitose, culms tough, slender, geniculate, decumbent- 

 ascending, internodes except the uppermost short, pubescent, 

 generally enveloped by the scabridulous-pubescent sheaths ; ligule 

 pilose ; blades spreading, shoi-tly linear-lanceolate, apex acute, 

 subpungent, pilose, margin scabridulous-pilose ; panicle small, 

 narrow, rhachis, branches and pedicels flexuose, hmsutulous ; spike- 

 lets shortly- stalked, 1^ line long, outline elliptical before spreading ; 

 glume I. reduced to an inconspicuoiis amplexicaul ridge of hairs ; 

 gls. II. and III. subequal, convex, coriaceous, 7-nerved, lateral 

 nerves parallel and ceasing at the shortly bilobed apex, keel 

 minutely scabridulous, margin ciliolate especially in the upper 

 portion, gl. II. subovate when flattened, bearing a slender awn 

 from the sinus 3 times its length, gl. Ill, narrower, less tough, 

 mucronate, enclosing a slightly shorter broad hyaline pale ; 

 fertile gl. shorter, thinly coriaceous, elliptical, with truncate 

 mucronulate apex, 5-nerved ; pale subequal and narrower. 



Described from a single bi'anched spreading shoot less than 

 1-n- ft. high ; internodes except the flowering 'l to \l in. long, not 

 exceeding 'i line in thickness, terete, reddish ; sheaths the same 

 length or slightly shorter ; ligule a row of hairs about 1 line long ; 

 blades 1 to 2 in. long by 3 to 5 lines broad. Panicles 2^ in. long 

 by about ^ in. or less in width, branches solitary, short, ascending to 

 suberect ; pedicels bearing a ring or tuft of stiff whitish hairs just 

 lielow the joint reaching to about the middle of the light-coloured 

 spikelet. Gls. II. and III. the length of the spikelet ; fertile gl. 

 smooth, with convolute margins and rounded back, scarcely 

 exceeding 1 line in length. 



Is nearest to M. angolevsis, but evidently a smaller plant, dis- 

 tinguished by its stronger spikelets with the obsolete lowest glume, 

 and finely awned second glume. 



PuN(;o AxDONKd. — A widely ctespitose grass, rarely flowering. On 

 the most lofty rocks of the prajsidium ; Apr. 1857. No. 7390. 



4. M. tomentosa Rendle sp. nov. 



Culms much branched, spreading, ascending from a creeping- 

 base ; internodes strong, slender, terete, crimson, short, enveloped 

 by the subequal hirsute sheaths ; ligule a row of whitish hairs ; 

 blades flat, linear-lanceolate from a coi-date base, acute, margin 

 strong, hirsutulous, faces more or less sparsely pubescent, gla- 

 brescent in the upper leaves ; panicle small, dense, narrowly 

 oblong, rhachis ;ind solitary ascending branches pilose; spikelets 



