22l' XXVIII. CRAMiNE.E. \Chloris^ 



50. CHLORIS Sw. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 1165. 



1. C. breviseta Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 566 (1849); 

 Stead. Syn. PI. Gram. p. 207 (1854); Durand & Schinz, Consp. 

 Fl. Afr. V. p. 860. 



GoLUXGO Alto. — Spikelets with a more or less golden-yellow sheen 

 when ahve. Plentiful in rather dry sunny places throughout the 

 whole district. Sandy places near Cacarambola ; Feb. 1855. No. 2983, 

 No. 2975 (no notes). 



Pdx(K) Andongo. — Sunny places at Sansamanda on the right of the 

 river Cuanza ; April 1857. No. 7386. 



2. C. barbata Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. i. p. 200 (1797); Steud., I.e., 

 p. 204 ; Durand k Schinz, I.e., p. 860. 



LoANDA. — Ponds near Boa Vista : March 18.o4. No. 7451- Samba 

 Grande; Feb. 1854. No. 7452. 185:^.-4. No. 7377. No. 7348?* (nonotes). 



MossAMEDES.— Sandy places on the thicket-grown banks of the 

 river Bero. A single specimen almost past flowering. Aug. 185'J. 

 No. 2608. 



3. C. radiata Sw. Prodr. p. 26 (1788); Steud., I.e., p. 205; 

 Durand & Scliinz, I c, p. 862. 



C. leptostachya llochst. ex A. EicL. Tent. Fl. Abys.s. ii. p. 407 

 (1851) ; Steud., I.e., p. 206 ; Durand k Schinz, I.e., p. 861. 



GoLUXGo Alto. — A very elegant grass, with elongated linear spikes 

 spreading stellately at the top of the culm, reddish or violet when 

 alive. In lean grassy places near Sange ; Dec. 1854. Nos. 2985, 2985 /'. 

 No. 7209 (no information), 



PrxGo Andoxgo. — An annual densely cajspitose grass, prostrate- 

 ascending, glaucous-green, barbs of the spike bright violet. Plentiful 

 in sunny places in the pnesidium ; end of Feb. 1857. No. 2801. 

 No. 2770 (no information). 



4. C. pubescens Wawi-. k Peyr. in Sitz. Ak. Wiss. Wien xxxviii 

 p. 585 (1860), (Sert. Benguel. p. 45) non Lag. 



Barra do Bengo. — Apparently perennial, widely ciespitose, primary 

 culms erect, lateral decumbent, rooting, 2 to t) ft. and longer, very 

 viscid. Spikes yellow, anthers black. Plentiful on the sea-shore near 

 Cacuaco and Barra do Bengo. (also in Praia de Zamba grande) : June 

 1858. No. 7304. 



Loanda.— Plentiful on sandy hills near the Ocean between Cacuaco 

 and Morro das Lagostas ; Dec. 1853. No. 7454. Boa Vista, Con- 

 cei9ao; 10 Aug. 18r)4. No. 7455. 1853-4. No. 7376. 



Mossamedeh. — Rocky places by the sea and clayey thickets between 

 Boa Vista and Giraul : July 1859. No. 2902. 



5. C. myriostachya Ilochst. in Flora xxxviii. p. 204 (1855); 

 Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 862. 



Loanda.— 1853-4. Nos. 7337, 7364. 



0. C. subsequigluma Rendle sp. nov. 



Apparently perennial, spreading by slender woody runners ; 

 glabrous ; culms erect from an ascending base, geniculate, simple 

 or once branched ; radical leaves distichously crowded, the outer 

 becoming dry and membranous, sheaths compres.sed, membranous a 

 little shorter than the short linear plicate rigidulous margined 

 glaucous obliquely emarginate blades ; ligule short, membranous ; 



