E^'agrostis] xxviii. gramixe.e. 251 



33. E. patens Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. p. 175, t. 113 

 (1875); Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 887. 



GdLUNGO Alto. — Found occasionally at the edges of Gramineta 

 (Capim) between Sange and Menha-lula ; May 1855. No. 7268. 



HuiLLA. — Very plentiful in abandoned fields, especially in rich soil ; 

 end of April 1860. No. 7498. 



34. E. plana Nees Fl. Afr. Austr. ix 390 (1841); Steud., 

 /.c, p. 270; Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 888. 



PuNGO AxDONGO. — Bather dry meadows near Sansamanda : Feb. 

 1857. No. 2776. 



35. E. brizoides Nees in Linniea vii. p. 328 (1832), Fl. Afr. 

 Austr. p. 384 (1841) ; Steud., I.e. ; Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 880. 



PuNGO Andongo. — 2 ft. high, widely cajspitose, with erect culms 

 and somewhat fleshy broadly ovate yellowish-red spikelets. In spongy 

 boggy places on the higher rocks of the south side of the prEesidium ; 

 18 Dec. 1856. No. 2757. Calunda ; Jan. 1857. No. 2748. 



HuiLLA.— Leaves smooth. Thicket-grown pastures near Nene ; 

 Oct. 1859. No. 7518. Leaves markedly pilose. Rather dry pastures 

 near Humpata ; April 1860. No. 7519. A form with hairy leaves. 



Sect. 3. — Platystachya. 



36. E. superba Wawr. & Peyr. in Sitz. Akad. Wiss. Wien 

 xxxviii. p. 584 (1860), (Sertum Benguelense p. 44); Durand & 

 Schinz, I.e., p. 890. 



E. elata Munro ex Hiern & Ficalho in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 2. 

 ii. p. 32. 



Ambriz.— Nov. 1853. No. 2896. 



Loan DA. — A very elegant caespitose grass, sometimes annual, some- 

 times when the rains are favourable biennial or even perennial ; 

 representing Briza maxima in the equatorial zone ; culms ascending, 

 branched, 1 to 3 ft. ; spikelets compressed, many-flowered, very large, 

 compact, generally variegated with green, purple and crimson. Plen- 

 tiful in sandy cultivated places, and in wild uncultivated places 

 throughout the whole district of Loanda, in herb-grown and grassy 

 places both in sandy and rich soil, flowering almost the whole year ; 

 June 1858. No. 7311. Maianga do Povo ; July 1858. No.7311/j. Alto 

 das Cruzes, Dec. 1858. No. 7311'^. 1853-4. Nos. 7365, 73656, 7365'% 

 7365'^. Represa do Maghella6 ConceiyaO : 10 Aug. 1854. No. 7447- 



37. E. variegata Wehv. ms. in herb. 



A small very elegant annual, culms slender, spreading-ascend- 

 ing, geniculate, branched, internodes 4, like the nodes sparsely 

 .scabridulous and pilose ; sheaths except the lowest about half the 

 length of the internodes, broader and looser below, becoming cylin- 

 drical above, more or less pilose : ligule a Hne of hairs ; blades 

 short, flat, narrowly linear-lanceolate, acute, margin scabrid, upper 

 face scabridulous, lower pubescent, panicle oblong to pyramidal ; 

 branches few short, triquetrous and hirsutulous bearing a con- 

 gested cluster of 2 to G large, flattened, sessile, ovate-lanceolate 

 to oblong many-flowered spikelets ; barren glumes similar to but 

 shorter and narrower than the fertile, ovate-acuminate, 1 -nerved, 



