'^'porobolus] xxviii. gramine.'E. 209 



8. S. pulchellus R. Br. Pmlr. p. 17U (1810) ; Kunth Rev. (iv.im. 

 p. 419, t. 123. 



Vilfa pulchella Steud., I.e., p. 155. 



PuNGO Anoonco. — Annual, laxly cjBspitose, a span to a foot high, 

 culms erect, slender, branched, spikes whorled, spikelets purplish. 

 Damp sandy soil between the bridge of Luxillo and Cambambe ; Feb. 

 1857. No. 2809. Plentiful in rather damp places by the sandy road- 

 side between Candumba and Lombe ; March 1857. No. 2805- Damp 

 places, Lombe ; March 1857. No. 2720. 



9. S. Molleri Hack, in Bol. See. Brot. v.p. 213 (1887)] Durand 

 «fc Schinz, I.e., p. 822. 



GoLUXGo Alto. — Growing in dense masses, but not CEespitose ; 

 pleasing to cattle. Plentiful in sparsely grassed sunny places in poor 

 soil near Sange (Caminho, near Bango) ; Dec. 1854. No. 2984. 



PuN(.'() An'1)oX(;().— No. 2843 (no notes). 



10. S. sanguineus Rendle sp. nov. 



Apparently annual, cjespitose, culms tall, erect, unbranched, 

 •distichously sheathed at the base ; nodes purplish, glabrous ; 

 cauline internodes 4, subcompressed, glabrous, long and, including 

 the lowest, exceeding the long appressed membranous sheaths, 

 mouth pilose, margins pilosulose in the upper part of their length ; 

 ligule short, hairy ; blade long, linear, tapering above to a 

 setiform apex, glabroiTS, plicate to convolute, ascendo-patent to 

 suberect ; panicle immature, long, strict, dense, glabrous, rhachis 

 slender, branches filifoi-m in whorls of 7 or fewer, at present 

 ascending, bearing in the upper part short 2- to 3-flowered 

 branchlets ; spikelets dark crimson, lanceolate and acute before 

 opening, shortly stalked ; barren glumes glabrous, lanceolate, 

 acute, very unequal, the lower small, narrow, enerved, barely 

 }, the length of the spikelet, the upper the length of the spikelet, 

 1-nerved ; fertile glumes similar to, but slightly shorter and less 

 sharply pointed than the large barren glumes, pale subequal and 

 similar but elliptical with truncate apex ; lodicules cuneate with 

 i-etuse apex ; anthers 3, yellowi.sh, linear ; styles bifid, glabrous, 

 l)earing a pair of large plumose stigmas. 



Culms over 3 ft. in lieight, the three lower intei'nodes of the 

 longest measuring 5, 5, and 9^ in. respectivel y, the lowest 1 line 

 across. Ligule less than 1 line long ; blades reaching 1 foot 

 in length, and 2 lines greatest width, those on the young leaf- 

 shoots narrower. Panicle 9 in. long, .^ to f in. in diameter ; 

 branches 2 in. or less ; spikelets 1|- to barely 2 lines long ; anthers 

 lA line. 



Closely i-esembles the North-American *S'. jnneeus Kunth in 

 habit and characters of the spikelet; but is evidently a larger 

 plant with stricter panicle. From the description apparently 

 near S. Rehvianni Hack. (Transvaal), which resembles it in the 

 characters of the spikelet but has lanceolate -linear leaves with a 

 rounded base. 



HuiLLA. — In poor thicket-grown meadows in the Lopollo territory : 

 May 1860. No 2660. 



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