Eragrostis] xxviii. (;ramixe.k. 237" 



narrow, and 2 in. or less in length. Inflorescence 7] in. long, .V in. 

 or less in length, containing 3 to 5 spikelets 3 to 5] lines long 

 by 1^ to li broad; barren glumes 1 and 1] line respectively; 

 fertile glumes scarcely 1^^ line long by '} line broad, pale II line 

 by i broad when flattened ; anthers barely i} line. 



Near "some of the larger spikeleted forms of E. elongata Jacq., 

 but distinguished by its cuspidate flowering glumes, and especially 

 the large broadly elliptical pale with broad keels and broad 

 inflexed margins. It also resembles, especially in the habit of the 

 inflorescence, the Abyssinian E. longifoUa Hochst., but is a much 

 larger plant ; the pale of E. longifoUa moreover is larger, with 

 the keels falling conspicuously short of the scarious apex. The 

 Brazilian E. rufescens Nees differs in habit and in its much 

 smaller pale. 



Htjilla. — Plentiful on the highest ridges of the loftiest rocks of the 

 praesidium ; Dec. 1856. No. 2755. 



13. E. major Host Gram. Austr. iv. p. 14, t. 24 (1809). 



E. megastachya Link Hort. Berol. i. p. 187 (1827). E. poceoides 

 Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. 6. i. p. 404 (1830); Steud., I.e., 

 p. 263. E. multijiora Asch. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. ^thiop. 

 pp. 299 and 310 ; Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 885. 



LoAXDA. — An annual with sparsely cfespitose ascending culms 1 to- 

 2 ft. high ; spikelets greenish-white. Plentiful in sandy herb-grown 

 [ilaces between Maianga do Povo and Imbondeiro dos Lobos, April 

 1854 and beginning of June 1858. No. 7316. On small hills above 

 Loanda, sporadic on the sandy banks of the river ; very polymorphic ; 

 beginning of Dec. 1857. No. 7333. 



GoiA'Nco Alto. — A polymorphic species, probably described by 

 different authors under different names. In rather dry sunny places 

 and among cultivated herbs near Sange and Trombeta ; Dec. 1854. 

 No. 7177. In dry poor soil near Camilongo ; July 1855. No. 7272. 

 No. 7253 (no notes). 



PuxGO AxDoNcio. — No. 2875 (no notes). 



HuiLLA. — In thicket-grown sandy pastures at Lake Ivantrda ; Feb. 

 1860. No. 2647. On low hills by streams near Humpata ; May 1860. 

 No. 7522. 



MossAMEDES.— In rather damp sandy places in the almost dry bed 

 of the river Bero or Rio das Mortes near Mata do Carpinteiros, but 

 only here and there ; 22 Aug. 1859. No. 2299. 



14. E. Hierniana Rendle sp. nov. 



Perennial by a strong slender rhizome, cfespitose, culms simple 

 or branched, tall, stout, stramineous, with 5 terete glabrous 

 internodes, nodes glabrous; leaf-sheaths, except the lowest and 

 highest, about half the length of the internode, loose, glabrous ; 

 ligule a very short row of hairs ; blade erect, rigidulous, glabrous, 

 linear-tapering from a broader base, more or less convolute, 

 acute ; panicle large, much branched, difluse, broadly obovoid, 

 glabrous, branches alternate, the lower distant and spreading at 

 about 45°, the upper less regular, branchlets filiform ; spikelets 

 long- or short-stalked, compressed, large, many-flowered, linear- 



