250 xxviii. GRAMINE.E. [Erogrostis 



i line, upper | to ^- line ; fertile gl. ■; line long by a good | line 

 broad ; anthers a warm reddish-brown, i line long. 



Near the Sierra Leone E. Scotelliana Rendle, which closely 

 resembles it in panicle and spikelet. The Hull la plant is however 

 easily distinguished by its broader shorter flattened scabridu- 

 lous hairy leaves, smaller, gi-eenish- brown spikelets and markedly 

 unequal barren glumes, 



HuiLLA. — In fields and among plantations of Zea Mays near 

 Lopollo ; Jan. 1860 ; No. 2646. In short thicket-grown sandy 

 pastures in the Humpata district ; April 1860. No. 7504. 



31. E. rejuvenescens Rendle sp. nov. 



A small plant ; culms very slender, wiry, glabrous, springing 

 from a dense bulbif orm tuft formed by broad strongly membranous 

 striate persistent sheaths enveloping the new shoots, outer face of 

 sheaths densely woolly ; ligule a short very dense row of hairs ; 

 blades of new leaves short, narrowly convolute, more or less 

 falcate, rigid, pungent, glabrous ; panicle small, subeffuse, ovoid, 

 or ellipsoid, rhachis, branches and pedicels glabrous, glandular ; 

 branches short rigidulous, ascendo-patent bearing slender small 

 branchlets or spikelets on subequal or sUghtly shorter pedicels ; 

 spikelets 6- to 8-flowered, bluntly ovate ; barren glumes large, 

 subequal, reaching almost to the tip of the lower fertile glumes, 

 lanceolate, blunt, 1 -nerved, subhyaline, glabrous ; fertile glumes 

 glabrous, ovate, blunt, concave, lateral nerves marginal ; pale 

 slightly shorter, back elliptical-oblong when flattened, truncate, 

 keels glabrous, inflexed mai-gins externally ciliate in the upper 

 two-thirds ; grain ellipsoidal, smooth, pale brown, hilum basilar. 



Plants 5 to 6^ in. high ; root-fibres numerous, strong, ^ to § 

 line thick ; outer sheaths bearing the charred remains of leaves, 

 about 1 in. long, i in. broad, the inner becoming shorter ; leaves 

 7 to 14 lines long, barely i line in diameter. Flowering internode 

 with panicle 3 to 5 in. long, panicle 12 to 14 lines long by 8 to- 

 ll lines across; branches \ in. or less; spikelet 11 line long by 

 a little over 1 line broad ; barren and flowering glumes barely 1 

 line long ; grain barely \ line. 



Recalls the last species in the form of its spikelets, which how- 

 ever differ in the glabrous glumes and ciliate pale. Its habit 

 is very distinct. 



HuiLLA. — In short thicket-grown pastures, recently burnt, near 

 Mumpulla ; Oct. 1859. No. 2661. 



32. E. ChapeUieri Nees Fl. Afr. Austr. p. 392 (1841) ; Steud., 

 I.e., p. 271 ; Durand k Schinz, I.e., p. 881. 



Luanda.— 1853-4. Nos. 7363, 7363i, 7363c, 7363^/. No. 7334 (no 



notes). 



PuNGO Andongo. — In sandy wooded places near Sansamanda on the 

 banks of the Cuanza ; 1 May 1857. No. 7404. Calunda ; Jan. 1857. 

 No. 2750. No. 2904 (no notes). 



HuiLLA.— Edges of fields near Humpata : April 1860. No. 2695. 



