230 xxviii. (JRAMiNE.t. [Enneapogon 



pletely 5 -nerved to about the middle, 1 -nerved to the tip, the 

 inner slightly longer, lanceolate, 3-nerved nearly to the tip, with 

 two intermediate nerves to about the middle, apex irregularly 

 obtuse ; fertile glume cuneate-orbicular, densely cilia te on the back, 

 setse slender, plumose to below the middle, longer than the glume 

 proper ; pale bicarinate, keels and mai'gin haiiy in the upper two- 

 thirds; gl. IV. short, truncate, with setaj longer in proportion,^ 

 pale very short ; gl. V. rudimentaiy. 



Sheaths about \ in. long, blades h in. Panicle i in. or less, 

 with 6 or fewer fertile spikelets. Gl. I. 1^ to 2 lines long, gl. II. 

 14 to 2i line, gl. III. 21 to 2^ lines, scarcely 1 line without the 

 setie, pale 1 line, gl. IV. 2 lines, less than \ line without the setse. 



A very distinct little plant, recalling in habit E. hrachystachyum 

 (Jaub. & Spach), but differing in the much reduced hidden 

 panicle, lanceolate barren glumes, etc. 



MossAMEDES. — A dwarf grass growing in cushions, fixed by its 

 capillary roots in the hardened sand (trap), subglaucous. Dry sand- 

 hills by the Atlantic near Giravil ; July 1859. Nos. 2281, 2883. 



3. E. benguellense Rendle sp. nov. 



A small apparently annual tufted minutely pubescent plants 

 culms geniculate, much branched, spreading and ascending ;. 

 lower leaf -sheaths short, broad, loose, the uppermost narrower, 

 lowermost leaf-blades obsolete, upper narrowly linear, tapering, 

 acute ; ligule reduced to a short row of hairs ; panicle small, 

 veiy dense, ellipsoidal to ovoid, spikelets shortly stalked, greenish ; 

 barren glumes subequal, covering the fertile, membranous with 

 conspicuous green nerves, compressed, elliptical when flattened, 

 subobtuse, sparsely pilose, the lower 7- the upper 5-nei'ved ; fertile 

 gl. densely covered with short white haix's, shortly obcuneate 

 from a truncate base when opened, teeth subulate, glabrous, 

 rather longer than the blade ; pale oblong, nerves ciliate ; gl. IV. 

 smaller, teeth more than twice the length of the glume, enclosing 

 a (J flower, third floret represented by a small trifui-cate rudiment. 



Plants 3 to 8 in. high ; leaf -sheaths conspicuously striate, 

 especially the lower, ^ to 1 in. long ; leaves to If in. long by 1 

 line broad. Panicle ^ to 1 in. long by i to ^ in. in diameter, 

 spikelets 1| line long. Barren glumes 5- or 7-nerved to within a 

 short distance of the 3-nerved apex, the lower 1 j line long, the 

 upper slightly shorter ; gl. III. including the teeth barely 1 ^ line 

 long, gl. IV. 1 line. 



A very distinct species. 



MossAMEDES. — Sandy places on the river Bero near Mata dos Car- 

 pinteiros ; Aug. 185'J. No. 2303. Sandy places on the banks of the 

 Bero and even in the river, near Quipola ; past flowering. June 18G0. 

 No. 2304. 



63. ANTOSCHMIDTIA Steud. Syn. PI. Gram. p. 199 (in note) 

 (1854). 



Schmidtia Steud. in Schmidt Fl. Cap. Verd. Ins. p. 144 (1852); 

 Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 1175. 



