Eragrostis] xxviii. (jramine.-e. 235 



reaching to within }r of the top of the lowest fertile glume, lanceo 

 late, acute, keels scabridulous, the lower slightly shorter ; fertile 

 glume elhptical-ovate, acute, 3-nervecl, purplish-green, glabrous; 

 pale persistent perceptibly shorter, keels strong, ciliolate; grain 

 reddish-brown, globose, smooth, \\-ith darker small subbasilar hilum. 



Plants 14 to 15 in. high ; internodes {- to 75- line thick, ,} to 

 2i in. long, not including the elongated flowering one which with 

 the panicle may reach 10 in. long. Leaf -sheaths from a little 

 over i to li in. ; blade 1 to l-^^ in. long, barely reaching 1 line in 

 width at the base when flattened. Panicle 2^ to 4 in. long by ,V 

 to f in. in diameter, lower branches f to Ij in, long, becoming 

 shorter upwards ; spikelets 2 to 21 lines long by 1 line or nearly 

 1 line broad ; lower barren gl. ^ to § line, upper f to f line ; 

 fertile gl. § line ; anthers withered, | (?) line long ; grain I line. 



Near U. stenophylla Hochst. but a more delicate plant, dis- 

 tinguished by its smaller oblong panicles, moi'e compressed 

 spikelets, and acute glumes. 



PuxGo Andoxgo ? — No. 2961 (no information). 



10. E. procerior Rendle sp. nov. 



Perennial, sparsely caaspitose, culms tall, erect from an oblique 

 base, simple or branched, internodes 4, strong, subterete, glabrous, 

 the lowest short, and enveloped by the dry sheaths, the upper 

 successively longer and exceeding the sheaths ; nodes conspicuous, 

 glabrous ; sheaths at base of culm and on leaf-shoots scabridu- 

 lously pilose, especially at the mouth, cauline sheaths glabrous 

 except for a few hairs at the mouth ; ligule a veiy short densely 

 hairy ridge ; blade rigidulous, convolute, narrowly linear, tapering 

 to a setiform apex, scabridulously pilose, especially when young; 

 panicle large, ellipsoidal, diff"use, much branched, branches more 

 or less aggregated in the lower part but not verticillate, becoming 

 irregularly scattered above, slender, flexuosely spreading, branched 

 from the base ; spikelets on pedicels which in the terminal may 

 exceed, but in the lateral are generally shorter than the spikelet, 

 the latter broadly linear to linear-lanceolate, fuscous-green, 6- to 

 14 flowered ; barren glumes large, subhyaline, reaching within 

 about ^ of the tip of the lowest fertile glume, keels minutely 

 scabridulous, the lower smaller by about \, oblong-lanceolate, 

 blunt, the upper ovate, blunt to subacute ; fertile glumes broadly 

 elliptic-ovate, blunt, pale scarcely shorter, keels not strong, 

 minutely scabridulous above the middle, obovate when flat with 

 truncate apex ; grain smooth, subcompressed, ellipsoidal, shallowly 

 excavated at the hilum, with a broad median dorsal furrow, 

 brown, hilum dark brown. 



Plants 3 to 6 ft. high ; root-fibres thick, densely hairy ; lowest 

 internode of culm li to 1^- in. long, by about 1 line wide ; leaf- 

 blades on the leafy shoots reaching 1 ft. in length, h line or less 

 in diameter in their natural convolute state, those of the flowering 

 culm shorter. Panicle 1 ft, long by 5 to 7|- in, in diameter, 

 branches scabridulous, 4?, in, long and less; branchlets an 



