246 XXVIII. cramine.t:. [Eragrostis 



much larger plant with broader leaves, longer and stronger panicle 

 with pubescent rhachis, etc. 



HuiLLA. — Somewhat plentiful in abandoned fields after Sorghum 

 cultivation near Erne, and at Ivantala ; May 1860. No. 7489. 



25. E. habrantha Reudle sp. nov. 



Apparently annual, csespitose ; culms unbranched, erect, with a 

 distichous tuft of basal leaves, internodes except the flowering 

 reduced, sheaths chartaceous, the outer subcompressed, stiff, 

 polished, hairy at the mouth, persistent, the upper becoming 

 nai-rowei" and cylindancal ; ligule a very short dense row of 

 hairs ; blade suberect to ascending, jointed to the sheath, stifi", 

 narrow-linear and convolute, tapering to the setaceous apex, 

 obscurely striate, glabrous ; panicle narrowly oblong, purple, 

 nodes bearing a tuft of white hairs, branches solitary or in 

 fascicles (often in opposite paii's) at the nodes, filiform, ascending, 

 bearing from the base upward capillary branchlets, which may 

 again branch, spikelets long-stalked, minute, olwvate, compressed,. 

 2- sometimes 3-flowered ; barren glumes subequal, reaching almost 

 to the top of the flowering glumes, elliptical, blunt, 1 -nerved, vein 

 sparsely scabridulous below the apex only, purplish with pale apex 

 and margin ; flowering glume broadly elliptical, with rounded 

 apex, 1 -nerved, with marginal nerves very imperfect or obsolete, 

 ecarinate, glabrous, pui-plish and green ; pale equal, truncate, keels 

 well marked, scabridulous only in upper third ; anthers purple. 



Plants less than 2 ft. high ; leaf -bearing stem less than 1 in. 

 long; sheaths li to 7 in. long enveloping the flowering internode 

 almost to the base of the panicle ; leaves reaching 1 ft. in length, 

 h to scarcely 1 line broad in their natural convolute state. In- 

 florescence 1 ft. long by 1^ in. broad, lowest branches reaching 

 4 in. long, forming an elegant capillary panicle ; spikelets \ to t 

 line long, on pedicels 3 to many times their length ; barren glumes 

 ^ to f line long, the lower sometimes slightly the smaller ; fertile 

 glumes \ line or a little more ; anthers ~ to ^ line. 



Eecalls E. hijfora Hack. (Transvaal) in its minute few-flowered 

 spikelets, but is a statelier plant distinguished at once by its long 

 rigidulous leaves and erect narrowly oblong purple nebulous panicle, 

 and still smaller spikelets. 



HriLLA. — In thicket-grown fields, no longer cultivated, near LopoUo ; 

 Aprill860. No. 7493. 



26. E. Frederici Rendle sp. nov. 



Perennial (?), csespitose, culms subrobust, erect, unbranched, 

 densely sheathed at the base, cauline internodes 4 (the lowest 

 short), terete, glabrous, internodes glabrous, purplish ; sheaths 

 loose, pilose at the mouth, shorter than the 3 upper internodes ; 

 ligule a short line of hairs ; blades ascending to erect, rigidulous, 

 convolute, tapering from a broader base to a setaceous apex,, 

 sparsely scabridulous-pilose ; panicle oblong, subeffuse, rhachis 

 and branches scabridulous-pilose, the latter alternate, slendei-, 

 bearing filiform bi-anchlets from the base upwards ; pedicels shorter 



