iJntoplocamia] xxviii. gramine.e. 229 



Lowest baiTen gl. 3-nerved, 2 lines long, second 5-nerved, 2;^ line ; 

 the next pair intermediate in form between the former and the 

 flowering glumes, 7-nerved, 2^ lines long; fertile gls. 3 to 3^ lines 

 long, pale 2^ to 3 lines ; anthers 2 lines long. 



Near E. aristulata {I'etrachne aristidata Hack. & Kendle, 

 recently separated as a distinct genus by Dr. Stapf), but a far 

 less robust plant with denser many-flowered spikelets and less 

 rigid glumes. 



MosSAMEDHS. — On sandy rocky hills near Quipola in the Mossamedes 

 ■district ; June 1851>. No. 2306. 



Tribe x. PAPPOPHORE.E. 

 G2. ENNEAPOGON Desv. ex Beauv. Agrost. p. 81 (1812). 

 Pappophoruni Sehreb., Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 1174, 

 |)i'o pai'te. 



1. E. abyssinicum. 



Pappophormn abyssinicum Hochst. in Flora xxxviii. p. 202 

 (1855); Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 869. 



Ambriz.— Nov. 1853. No. 2897- 



LoANDA. — A cjBspitose annual with plane flaccid leaves, ascending 

 branched culms H to 2| ft. high, and panicled silky-shining spikes. In 

 sandy plains between Penedo and Concei^ao ; Jan. 1859. No. 2916. 

 Plentiful among stones on the roads right in the city of Loanda, 

 growing with Botrhinrin and Amarantacete : Dec. 1858. No. 7293. 

 Palm groves on Loanda island, near Museque de Luiz Gomes, grow- 

 ing in dense masses and covering wide areas : April 1854. No. 7332. 

 Dry stony heights near Cacuaco ; Dec. 1853. No. 7343 (in part). 

 Among herbage in palm groves by the river and on the banks of the 

 river Bengo near Porto Rei ; Dec. 1853. Nos. 7332?*, 7448. 



MossAMKDKS. — Growing in crevices of rocks on the mountains 

 (apparently gneiss) near the mouth of the river Bero along with P,io 

 d'Oleo {Adina wicrocejihahi Hiern) ; 22 Aug. 1859. No. 2291. In 

 coarse sand near the banks of the Bero from Quipola to Mata de 

 €arpinteiros ; July, Aug. 1859. No. 2304. 



The plants show considerable variation in the actual and 

 relative size of the barren glumes, which have 3 main nerves, the 

 outer being imperfectly 4- to 6-nerved. The colour of the dense 

 panicle varies from a pale lucent straw-colour to cinereous, and the 

 length from 1 to 8 in. The leaves are flat and narrow-linear, to 

 2.V lines broad at the base, tapering to a long acuminate setiform 

 apex, or narrower becoming more or less convolute and setaceous. 



2. E. pusillum Rendle sp. nov. 



A minute acaulescent annual forming small tussocks about 

 1 in. or less aci-oss, and i to J in. high, sparsely pubescent, leaves 

 short, densely crowded, enveloping the small much reduced 

 panicles ; outermost sheaths broad, mai'kedly striate ; ligule a short 

 row of hairs ; blade convolute, setaceous, except in the outer- 

 most leaves exceeding the sheath ; panicle few-flowered, spikelets 

 shortly stalked ; barren glumes membranous iind liyaline except 

 the green nerves, sparsely pilose, subcompressed, the outer 

 •elliptical-lanceolate, obtuse, sometimes minutely apiculate, in com- 



