226 A.wni. GRAWiNE/E. [Leptocarydion 



yellow, leaves glaucous. Sandy thickets between Luxillo and Cazella ; 

 middle of April 1857. No. 2825- No. 2860 (no information). 

 GoLUNGo Alt( ) ?— Nos. 7265, 7269 (no information). 



57. CROSSOTROPIS Stapf in Fl. Capens. vii. p. 317 (1898). 

 Lejitochloa Beauv., Bei th. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 1172, pro 

 parte. 



1. C. g^andiglumis. 



Leptochloa grandiglumis Nees Fl. Afr. Austr. p. 252 (1841) ; 

 Steud. Syn. PI. Gram. p. 2 1 ( 1854). Dijilachne grandighimis Hack, 

 in Engl. Jahrb. xi. p. 404 (1890); Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. 

 Afr. V. p. 878. 



Var. minor Ptendle var. nov. 



Spikelets smaller and more delicate than in the type, 2^ to 3 

 lines long ; flowering glumes subhyaline, more prominently awned 

 than in the type, pale hyaline. 



PuNGO Andongo. — Quisonde, Condo ; March 1857. No. 2709. 



HuiLLA. — A widely cjespitose grass. In thicket-grown pastures 

 from Catumba towards O'Hay, in sandy sparsely herb-grown places ; 

 middle of May 1860. No. 7492. 



2. C. eleusinoides Rendle sp. nov. 



Perennial (?), culms erect from a decumbent or ascending 

 geniculate base ; nodes glabrous, reddish-brown ; internodes terete, 

 I'igid, glabrous, except the two upper shox't and covered by the 

 loose dry .submembranous striate tuberculately hairy sheaths ; 

 ligule colourless, subhyaline, subtruncate ; blades rigid, shortly 

 linear-tapering, apex pungent, becoming convolute, scabridulous 

 on both faces, sparsely tuberculate-pilose on the lower ; inflorescence 

 a compound spike, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, sj)ikelets sessile, 

 closely ai-ranged in 2 rows on one side of the subflattened scabrid 

 rhachis, forming ascending sessile spikes scattered on the scabrid- 

 angled main axis ; barren glumes subequal, 1 -nerved, narrowly 

 linear-lanceolate, acuminate, keel scabridulous, equal to or slightly 

 exceeding the 4 to 5 flowers, the uppermost small and barreii ; 

 fertile glumes ovate-oblong when flattened, hyaline, with a short 

 weak awn about half the length from between the irregularly 

 bilobed apex, margins pilose, incurved on the short lateral 

 marginal nerves, back of glume sparsely pilosulose, pale slightly 

 shorter, elliptical-oblong ; fruit of the genus. 



Culms to 15 in. high, lower internodes (2 to 4) ^ to 1 in. long ; 

 leaves l},- in. long or less by 11 line broad. Panicle 4 or 5 in. 

 long by Y in. across, becoming wider in the fruit from the greater 

 spreading of the branches ; branches shortening upwards, the 

 lowermost ly to If in. long. Spikelets 2 lines long, barren gl. 

 greenish, with paler membranous margins, the lowest fertile gl. 

 1 line long excluding the awn, the upper becoming smaller ; 

 stamens 3, ~ line long. Fruit compressed, rather deep brown, 

 scarcely f line long. 



Near 6'. arenaria (Leptochloa arenaria Hochst.) but distinguished 



