256 XXVIII. GRAMINE.E. [Oli/rcc 



Benth., ^.c. 0. pawicztZato Sw. Observ. p. 347 (1791) ; Steud Syn 

 PI. Gram. p. 35 (1854). 



Prince's Island.— Pico de Papagaio at about 1200 ft. ; Sept. 1853. 

 No. 29326. 



Sierra Leone.— Sept. 1853. No. 2938. 



GoLUNGo Ai.TO. — A high climbing grass, 12-15 spans and more, with 

 a hollow culm, marked in its lower part with dark purple transverse 

 rings. Everywhere by streams in dense thickets on the slopes of the 

 mountains of Alta Queta ; in fr. 31 Dec. 1854. No. 2998. A fine 

 grass, climbing widely among thickets ; anthers purple very caducous. 

 In thick damp woods, by streams, Queta mountains : in fl. March 

 185G. No. 7236. No. 7175 (no information). 



73. LEPTASPIS R. Br. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 1 1 1 0. 

 1. L. cochleata Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. p. 357 (1864). 



L. conchifera Hack, in Bolet. Soc. Broter. v. p. 211. t. G. fig. A. 

 (1887) ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 788. 



Island of St. Thomas. — In very shady places with Marattia on 

 Mt. Caff^ ; Dec. 1860. No. 2887. 



Prince's Island — In the dried up bed of streams on the higher 

 parts of Pico de Papagaio, but rather rare ; Sept. 1853. No. 2925. 



Golungo Alto. — A grass 3 to 4 ft. high, almost a shrub, with bug- 

 like violet-purple spikelets. Leaves papery, dry, hard. In very thick 

 and primaeval forest by streamlets dried up in summer on the 

 mountains of Alto Queta ; Dec. 1854. No. 2997. No. 7218 (no in- 

 formation ). 



74. PHYLLORACHIS Tiimen : Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 

 p. 1108. 



1. P. sagittata Trimen in Jouz-n. Bot. xvii. p. 353, t. 205 (1879) ; 

 Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 787. 



PuNGO Andongo. — Sandy woods on the larger island of Calemba, 

 river Cuanza ; March 1857. No. 7399. 



Tribe xvi. B A MB USE. E. 



75. OXYTENANTHERA Munro ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. 

 PI. iii. p. 1211. 



1. 0. abyssinica Munro in Tran.s. Linn. Soc, xxvi. p. 127 

 (1868); Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 945. 



Bambitsa ahyssinica A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. p. 439 (1851) ; 

 Steud. Syn. PI. Gram. p. 330 (1854). 



PuNGO Ani)oN(;o. — Culms unarmed, 25 to 30, more rarely 40 or 

 50 ft. high, gregarious, glaucous-pruinose, lA to 3 in. in diameter at 

 the base. Rather plentiful near rivers in the primitive woods 

 between Pungo Andongo and Candumba, near Mangue, Mutollo, 

 Candnmba, etc. In immature fr. end of Mar. 1857. No. 1134. The 

 tops of a flowering culm 22 ft. high, leafless, and clothed only with 

 very large coriaceous broadly mucronate sheaths. In dense woods on 

 the river Quiambungo ; end of March 1857. No. 2803. In woods 

 near Candumba ; March 1857. Coll. Carp. 1109. See also Welw. 

 Synops. Explic. p. 38 (1862). 



