Eragrostis] xxviii. c;uamine,k. 241 



thin soil near Catete at the Washerwomen's Spring : Feb. 1857. 

 No. 2737. On rocky hills ; Jan. 1857. No. 2771. 



Moss.VMEDEs. — In sandy soil in the bed of the river Bero, which 

 is almost entirely dried up in winter ; July and August 1859. 

 No. 2301 (in part). 



Var. viscosa Rendle var. nov. 



Panicle more rigid and robust, rhacliis scabrid and pubescent, 

 and like tlie branches glandular and viscid. 



M<)SS.a.m?:dks. — In sandy soil in the bed of the river Bero, almost dry 

 in the winter season ; June and August 1859. No. 2301 (in part). 



Yar. speciosa Ilendle var. nov. 



A much finer plant than the type, 2 to 3 ft. high, culms 

 stronger with 5 to G internodes, leav^es flat, 2 to 4 in. long by li 

 to 2 lines broad; panicle obtuse, ellipsoidal, 6 to 10 in. long by 



2 to 3 in. across; spikelets 3 lines long, 8- to 13-llowered 

 (generally about 10-flowered). 



PuNGO Andoncio. — In damp meadows. No. 2772. No. 2969 (no 

 notes). 



HuiLL.\. — Heights of Nene ; and everywhere in fields, and rather 

 damp and dry meadows, also on the sandy banks of streams round 

 Lopollo ; April and May 18G(). No. 7486. 



18. E. beroensis Rendle sp. nov. 



Apparently annual, culms rather slender, branched, internodes 6, 

 terete, glabrous, sometimes with a glandular ring below the sub- 

 conspicuous glabrous brown nodes ; leaf-sheaths subcompressed 

 and carinate especially in the upper part, sparsely glandular- 

 punctate, especially' on the midrib, mouth sparsely pilose ; ligule 

 a short dense row of hairs; blades flat, linear-tapering, apex seti- 

 form; panicle pyramidal lax, branches whorled, becoming .scattered 

 above, weakly spreading, bare for about ?. the distance from the 

 base, branchlets short, weak, ascending ; spikelets glabrous, linear, 

 shortly-stalked, greyish-green, 9- to 12-flowered; barren glumes 

 thin, membranous, acute, inconspicuously 1 -nerved, the lowei- 

 lanceolate, the upper ovate-lanceolate and slightly longer ; fertile 

 glumes ovate to ellipsoid-ovate, apex rounded, 3-nerved, lateral 

 nerves curved, imperfect, pale subequal, rather nai^row, slightly 

 curved, keels glabrous ; grain ellipsoidal, pale with a dark hilum. 



Culms \}r ft. or more long, sheaths 1 to 2| in. long, in the fully 

 developed culm sl\orter than the internodes ; ligule less than 

 ^ line long ; leaves 4 to 5 in. long by 1 line or a little more in 

 greatest breadth, scabridulous, veins 4 to 5, prominent on under 

 face. Panicle 7 in. long by 5 in. greatest diameter ; branches in 

 whorls of 3 to 4, or upper ones opposite, or solitary, lower about 



3 in. long, becoming shorter above, nodes sparsely pilose ; 

 branchlets about 1 in. or les.s. Spikelets 2^^ to 4 lines long, 

 lower barren gl. barely 1 line, upper a good line ; fertile gl. 

 i line ; anthers a little over .} line ; grain j line long. 



Near E. agrostoidea, but distinguished by its laxer habit, larger 

 laxer panicle, longer spikelets, and lai-ger longer grain. 



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