Eragrostis] xxviii. gramine.e. 233 



membranous line ; blade Hat, narrowly linear-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, pilose on both faces, suberect ; panicle small, dense, oblong, 

 nodes pilose, ])ranches ascendo-patent, branched from the base 

 upwards ; spikelets dark purple, small, 3-flowered, covered with 

 white hairs, subcompressed, ovate, pedicels generally longer than 

 the spikelet, slender, purplish, glandular a little below the spikelet ; 

 rhachis jointed below each flower ; barren glumes large, reaching 

 above the middle of the spikelet, subequal, lanceolate, acute, 

 1 -nerved ; fertile glumes membranous, elliptical, apex truncate, 

 broken and ciliate, lateral nerves complete ; pale slightly shorter, 

 the inflexed margins and upper portion of back ciliate, keels well- 

 marked, minutely scabridulous in the upper half, back elliptical 

 when flattened, apex truncate and densely ciliate ; stamens 3. 



The plants, all of which are young, are 1 ft. or less in height, 

 with the internodes (7 in number) covered with the overlapping 

 sheaths ; the leaf-blades reach 3 in. in length by barely 2 lines in 

 width. Panicle 2 in. long by ^ in. in diameter, branches f in. or 

 less ; spikelets scarcely exceeding 1 line in length, slightly less in 

 l^readth. Barren glumes about 1 line long, fertile glumes scarcely 



1 line, anthers a good i line. 



Near E. hispida K. Schum., which however differs in its longer 

 narrower leaves, more diffiise dull green panicle with larger 

 spikelets, and the long-ciliate scabrid keels of the pales. 



HuiLLA.— Wet pastures by the river Monino ; April 1860. No. 2698. 



4. E. annulata Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1891, p. 72. 

 Var. major Rendle var. nov. 



Differs from the type in its broader oblong-lanceolate to ovate 

 spikelets, which are also generally more shortly stalked and only 

 occasionally show the characteristic annular gland. Spikelets 



2 to 4 lines long by about 1] line broad. 



MossAMEDEs. — In sandy places on the banks of the river Bero, near 

 Cavalheiros ; July and Aug. 1859. No. 2298. 



5. E. tenella Beauv. ex Roem. ct Schult. Syst. ii. p. 576(1817). 

 Var. viscosa Stapf in Fl. Brit. Ind. vii. p. 315 (1896). 



E. viscosa Trin. in Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. Petersb. Ser. 6. i. p. 397 

 (1830); Steud., I.e., p. 265; Durand & Schinz, Z.c, p. 891. E. 

 retinwrhcta Steud., I.e., p. 268. 



PuNCio Andoxco. — A beautiful grass, annual, erect, si^arsely branched, 

 spikelets purplish. Here and there in sandy thickets between Bumba 

 and Condo : March 1857. No. 7415. No. 2877 (no notes). 



HuiLLA. — In places ■once cultivated and in fields behind maize 

 plantations near LopoUo ; May 1860. No. 2697. 



Var. compacta Stapf ined. 



LoANDA. — No. 7478. A monstrous form. 



HuiLLA. — Plentiful in fields where Zea -\fays is cultivated, near 

 JLopollo and Nene ; May 1860. No. 2635. 



6. E. interrupta Beauv. Agrost. p. 162 (1812). 

 Var. namaquensis Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 884. 



E. namaquensis Nees ex Schrad. in Linnsea xii. p. 452 (1838), 



