232 XXVIII, GRAMixE^. [llomalocenchrus 



A lax but very widely csespitose grass common in marshy wooded 

 places between Condo and Quisonde ; March 1857. No. 2834. A grass 

 3 ft. and higher, with graceful creeping culms, the flowering ones 

 ascending. Grows sparingly in grassy swamps between Condo and 

 Quisonde ; middle of March 1857. No. 7394. 



Tribe xii. ERAGROSTEyE. 



66. POGONARTHRIA Stapf in Fl. Capens. vii. p. 316 (1898). 

 1. P. falcata. 



Leptochloa falcata Hack, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iii. p. 386 (1895). 



LoANDA. — Generally an annual, densely casspitose, culms erect \h or 

 2 ft. high, spikes and spikelets remarkably stiff. Plentiful in sandy 

 plains throughout the whole district. Museque de Luiz Gomes ; May 

 1858. No. 7287. 1853-4. No. 7367- 



Barra no BENGO.^An annual erect widely csespitose rigid grass. 

 In thicket-grown sandy somewhat wooded places between Quicuxe and 

 Cacuaco ; end of May 1858. No. 7287^. 



PuNGO Andongo. — Plentiful in sandy soil on the road-sides between 

 Lombe and Quibinda, in dry and rather damp places ; March 1857. 

 No. 7408. 



Huii.i.A. — In sandy thickets on the edges of woods between Lopollo 

 and Monino ; end of March 1860. No. 7487. 



67. ERAGROSTIS Beauv.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 

 p. 1186. 



Sect. 1. — Cataclastos. 



1. E. aspera Nees Fl. Afr. Austr. p. 408 (1841) ; Steud. Syn. PI. 

 Gram. p. 272 (1854) ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 879. 



GOLUNGO Alto. — A very elegant erect grass, 1 to 2J ft. high, with 

 tremulous spikelets sometimes green sometimes a beautiful violet 

 colour. In rich soil interspersed with sand in places once cultivated 

 by the banks of the river Cuango near Sange ; June and beginning of 

 July 1855. No. 7245. 



PuNGO Andongo ?—Nos. 2857/a 2862 (no information). 



HuiLLA. — Plentiful in fields after cultivation of -msAZQuni. Sorghum, 

 in the Lopollo district ; April 1860. No. 7494. 



2. E. ciliaris Link Hort. Berol. i. p. 192 (1827); Benth. in 

 Hook. Niger Fl. p. 567 (1849); Steud., I.e., p. 265; Durand ^'. 

 Schinz, I.e., p. 881. 



LoANDA.— Quinta de Luiz Gomes ; May 1854. No. 7460 (in part). 

 Nos. 7461-3, 7465 (no notes). Near S. Pedro and on the way thence 

 to Maianga do Povo ; beginning and middle of Jan. 1858. No. 7466. 

 1853-4. Nos. 7373 (in part), 7374. 



GoLUNGo Alto. — No. 7260 (no notes). 



PuNGO Andongo.— Candumba ; Jan. 1857. No. 2703. 



3. E. caniflora Rendle sp. nov. 



Annual, csespitose, culms and leaf -shoots surrounded at the base 

 by membranous withering leaf-sheaths, culms a foot or less in 

 height enveloped to within a short distance of the panicle by the 

 .sheaths which are subcompressed, .stramineous, glabrous ; ligule a 



