Eragrostis\ xxviii. oramixe.k. 239 



A delicate graceful plant 2 ft. high, internodes (except the 

 flowering) f to 2^ in. long, less than }. line in diameter ; cauline 

 leaves scarcely reaching 6 in. long, greatest breadth a short 

 distance from the base l.l line. Panicle 10 to 12 in. long, 

 rhachis slender, curving, branches near the base of the largest 

 reaching 4 in. long, becoming gradually shorter upwards, branches 

 and branchlets widely curving, pulvinate; spikelets 2 lines or 

 slightly less in length, reaching barely a line in breadth above 

 the base, pedicels 3 to many times their length. Lower barren 

 glume \ to I line long, upper § line ; fertile glume f line long ; 

 anthers ~ line, grain i line. 



Is near E. jmteiitissima Hack. (<^ descript.), which however 

 has larger spikelets and much larger ovate-lanceolate acuminate 

 flowering glumes. 



HuiLLA. — Rather damp aljandoned fields near Lopollo ; April 1860. 

 No. 2656. 



16. E. platyphylla Rendle sp. nov. 



An elegant sparsely cfespitose annual ; culms tall, erect, com- 

 pressed, nodes brown, glabrous, the lowest geniculate, internodes 

 4, glabrous, with an annular patch of glands below the node, 

 the 2 lower much the shorter ; sheath thinly membranous when 

 dry, glabrous, striate, the lowest exceeding its internode, the 

 upper increasingly shorter than the internode ; ligule a short 

 dense line of hairs ; blade weak, glabrous, elongated, vei"y 

 narrowly linear-lanceolate, or linear tapering gradually to the 

 setiform apex and more abruptly at the base, veins 7 to 9, white, 

 subprominent below ; panicle gracefully curving, pyramidal, 

 branches in a whorl of 4 at the lower node, which alone is 

 sparsely pilose, whorled and alteniate above, gracefully spreading 

 below, ascending to suberect above, bearing short lateral sub- 

 appressed branches except for a short distance at the base; 

 spikelets except the terminal shortly stalked, lanceolate to oblong- 

 lanceolate, 6- to 8-flowered, a dull olive-green ; barren glumes 

 unequal, hyaline, reaching above the middle of the next flowering 

 glumes, lanceolate, blunt or subacute, carinulate and scabridulous 

 above the base; fertile glumes glabrous, ovate, blunt, imperfectly 

 3-nerved, lateral nerves scarcely reaching the middle ; pale about 

 I the length of the glume, curved, apex broadly truncate, 

 broken, keels well-marked, glabrous ; grain red, ellipsoidal, 

 asymmetrical at the hilum, laterally compressed, with a wide 

 mecUan doi-sal groove. 



A graceful plant 3 ft. high ; leaf-sheaths 2 to 5t} in. long ; 

 leaves reaching nearly 1 ft. in length by 2 lines greatest \vidth. 

 Panicle 6 to 10 in. long by 31 to 5 in. across, lowest branches 

 3 in. long, branchlets | in. or less ; spikelets 2 to 2]- lines by 

 § to i line, pedicels I line or less ; barren glumes }r and ^ line 

 respectively ; fertile glume -l line, pale § line ; anthex's pale brown, 

 barely i line ; grain barely .1 line. 



Recalls E. pass(6 in characters of foliage and spikelet, but is 



