208 XXVIII. GRAMiNE.E. [jSjxyrobolm 



with 1 to 3 long fine hairs; pedicels long, clavately swollen 

 beneath the spikelet ; spikelets fuscous, a little over I line long, 

 lanceolate becoming truncate-elliptical-oblong, barren glumes 

 blunt, enerved, glabrous, membranous, the outer less than half 

 the length of the spikelet, orbicular-ovate, the inner elliptical ; 

 fertile glume broadly ovate, blunt, roundly convex, with a central 

 nerve and two short submarginal lateral nerves, glabrous, pale 

 subequal or slightly longer, broadly elliptical-obovate, very blunt ; 

 anthers 3. 



Plants 9 to 14 in. high, the slender erect culms, with 4 to 5 

 nodes, i-ising from crowded leafy tufts 1 to 1^ in. high; leaves 

 not exceeding 1 in., generally less, sheaths ^r to 1 in., the 

 uppermost 1.} to 2 in. ; ligule less than ]- line. Panicle '2h 

 to 3^ in. long by 1 to 2 in. broad, branches reaching 1|- in. 

 long, becoming shorter above the middle, branched again from 

 the base, pedicels 2 to 4 times as long as the spikelet. Glume I. 

 scarcely ]- line long, gl. II. a good I line, gl. III. a good i line, 

 pale similar in textui-e and fuscous-green colour to the glume, 

 upper margin membranous, very minutely ciliolate ; anthei-s 

 .scarcely ^ line. 



Near S. minutijiorus Link, but distinguished by habit, short 

 pungent leaves, and small capillary reticulate pilose panicle. 



HuiLi.A. — Poor pastures in the Lopollo district ; May 1860. No. 2690. 



7. S. andongensis Rendle sp. nov. 



Perennial, widely and densely cvespitose, leaf-shoots and erect 

 culms springing from the massed withered leaf -sheaths ; leaves 

 suberect or ascending, rigidulous, lineai-, tapering to a pungent 

 apex with strong submarginal nerves, sparsely pilose on the upper 

 face ; nodes glabrous ; sheaths with ciliolate margin and pilose 

 mouth ; ligule short, densely hairy ; panicle more or less ellipsoidal ; 

 branches alternate, subascending, bi-anchlets spreading at about 

 45°, capillary, like the pedicels, nodes swollen and bearing tufts 

 of hairs, pedicels 2 to several times as long as the spikelets, 

 clavate at the tip, spikelets fuscous, lanceolate to oblong, ;^- line 

 long ; barren glumes subequal, blunt, the outer ovate, 1-nerved, 

 the inner elliptical, enerved ; fertile glume ovate, blunt or emar- 

 ginate, 3-nerved, the lateral nerves falling short of the tip ; pale 

 slightly longer, elliptical, glabrous ; anthers 3. 



Plants 7 to 11 in. high; leaves to 3 in. loug, about 1 line or 

 less in breadth at the base ; ligule \ line ; culms with 3 to 4 

 internodes, slender. Panicle diffuse, to 4 in. long by 1^ in. broad, 

 branches i-eaching \}, in. Barren glumes of spikelets between 

 ;■. and i line long, fertile glume a good H line, pale similar in 

 colour and texture, ■{- line ; anthers scarcely ^ line long. 



Near the last species, but distinguished by its larger spikelets, 

 subequal barren glumes, and linear-tapering leaves. 



PuxGo AxDONGO. — Perennial, widely and densely caespitose, leaves 

 and culms erect, panicle diffuse. Wet meadows between Candumba 

 and Lombe, growing with Lythracece, etc. ; March 1857. No. 2812. 



