Sporobolus] xxviii. gkamine.k. 207 



Prince's Island. — Thicket- and forest-grown hills by the sea near 

 Porto de San Antonio : Sept. 185;}. No. 2931. 



GoLUNCo Alto. — Poor grassy places near Sange ; Dec. 1855. 

 No. 2977. 



PuNGO Andox(;o. — 2 to 3 ft. high, ctespitose. Marshy places near 

 Lombe ; March 1857. No. 2727- No. 2851 (no information). 



3. S. virginicus Kunth, I.e., p. G7; Benth., I.e., p. 564 ; Duraiul 

 it Schinz, I.e., p. 824. 



Agrostis virginica L. 8p. PL p. 63 (1753). Vilfa virginica 

 Beauv. Agrost. p. 16 (1812); Steud., I.e., p. 157. 



Ambkiz. — Plentiful at the mouth of the river Loje near Ambriz. 

 growing in coarse sandy and Hooded saline places not far from lagoons: 

 Nov. 1853. Nos. 2890, 2888. 



LoANDA. — Growing socially on the margins of mangrove swamps 

 (Rhizophoreta) Cazanga Island in damp saline ground (and everywhere 

 on the shore of the ocean wherever the ground is tolerably damp) ; end 

 of April 1854. No. 7459. Sandy shores of Cazanga Island ; May 1854. 

 Nos. 7302, 7369. 



MossAMKDES. — Places grown with short thickets near the sea and 

 flooded in the rainy season not far from Mossamedes ; July 1851). 

 No. 2611. 



4. S. spicatus Kunth, I.e. : Durand & 8chinz, I.e., p. 823. 

 Agrostis viryiniea Forsk. Fl. ^-Eg.-Anil). Descr. p. 20 (1775). 



A. spicata Vahl Symb. i. p. 9 (1790). Vilfa spicata Beauv., I.e. : 

 Steud., I.e., p. 160. 



Island of St. Vixci.m', Cai-k Vki;de Is.— Coarse sandy places and 

 barren hills ; Sept. 1853. No. 2921. 



5. S. festivus Hochst. ex A. Eich. Tent. Fl. Aby.ss. ii. p. 398 

 (1851) ; Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 820. 



Vilfa /estiva Steud., I.e., p. 158. 



PuNGo AxDoxdo. — A very elegant cfespitose annual(?); culms erect- 

 striate ; panicle a fine violet. Plentiful in damp, sunny, rocky 

 places. Rocks of Cabondo : towards the end of Nov. 1856. No. 275i- 

 Beginning of Nov. No. 2751/'. Agrostoid or simulating ^//v/, casspitose, 

 1 to H ft. high, remarkaMe when alive for its amethyst-purple 

 spikelets. Pastures of short grass between the prsesidium and Luxillo ; 

 May 1857. No. 2804. 



G. S. Welwitschii Kendle sp. nov. 



Perennial by a short rather slender ascending rhizome, which 

 bears very short densely cfespitose leaf-shoots, with small, stiff, 

 involute, acicular, pungent, glabrous, ciowded leaves, sheath.-^ 

 membranous, striate, glabrous, pilose only at the mouth; flowering 

 culms slender, wiry, .slightly geniculate, nodes glabrous, leaf- 

 sheaths much shorter than the internodes, leaves short, distich- 

 ously spreading, similar to those on the leafy shoots, ligule a 

 .short densely hairy ridge ; panicle ellipsoidal, effuse, branches 

 alternate, slender, spreading, branchlets capillary, spreading 

 nearly at a right angle, similarly branched, interlacing, and 

 forming a fine capillary network with thickened nodes, nodes 



