136 XXVIII. GRAMINEE. [Saccharum 
2, SACCHARUM L. ; Benth. ‘& Hook. f, Gen. Pl. iii. p. 1125. 
1. S. officinarum L. Sp. Pl. p. 54 (1753) ; Hack. Mon. Androp. 
p. 111; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 694. 
Go.uNco ALTO.—In sugar plantations on the banks of the Luinha ; 
Dec. 1855. No. 2901. 
MossaMEDES.—Saccharum violaceum ? Culm straw-yellow streaked 
longitudinally with purple-violet. bands. Cultivated commonly for 
sugar and brandy, formerly introduced from Brazil by Portuguese 
colonists. Called by the inhabitants Canna imperialis. Fazenda de 
Purificacad near Cavalheiros ; 27 Aug. 1859. No. 2283. 
2. S.Munroanum Hack., J.c., p. 124; Durand & Schinz, /.c., p. 694. 
Eriochrysis pallida Munro in Harvey Gen. 8. Afr. Pl. ed. ii. 
p. 440 (1868). 
HuitLa.—Two feet high, widely cespitose, with the habit of Holcus, 
spikes a tawny gold colour. Common in peaty places about Humpaia ; 
beginning of Dec. 1859. Common in wooded damp rather peaty 
meadows between Lopollo and the river Monino ; conspicuous from 
its splendid gold colour ; Nov. 1859, Jan. and Feb. 1860. No. 2642. 
3. POLLINIA Spr. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii, p. 1127. 
1. P. villosa Spreng. Syst. Veget. i. p. 288 (1825); Hack. Mon. 
Androp. p. 157. 
Eulalia villosa Nees Fl. Afr. Austr. p. 91 (1841). 
HviILia.—On rocks in the mountainous district of Morro de Monino, 
but seen only in one place; April 1860. No. 7485. 
2. P. (§ Eulalia) huillensis Rendle sp. nov. 
Perennial from a nodose creeping rhizome bearing remains of 
old shoots above and numerous tough wiry roots, with a shorter 
leafy shoot and a long slender terete culm ending in the inflor- 
escence ; lowest sheath glabrous, broad, loose below, becoming 
narrower and convolute in the upper half and passing impercept- 
ibly into the convolute terete setiform blade ; ligule membranous, 
pyramidal with a truncate retuse apex ; sheaths of cauline leaves 
becoming longer and blades shorter ; inflorescence of 3 fasciculate 
spikes, on a very much shortened common axis; spikelets one- 
flowered, more or less tinged with purple and thinly covered with 
white silky hairs; pedicel and rhachis-joint similarly hairy, 
slender, subequal; glume I. oval-oblong tapering above with 
narrowly incurved edges forming submarginal slightly prominent 
keels, and 5 subprominent green nerves on the shallowly rounded 
back, callus clavate with densely hairy edges about one-fifth the 
length of the glume; gl. II. narrower than the outer, 3-nerved 
slightly monocarinate with inrolled shortly hairy margins otherwise 
glabrous ; gl. III. hyaline, oblong-ovate, tapering gradually up- 
ward to a blunt rounded apex, 2-nerved with 2 marginal keels 
which are densely shortly hairy in the upper part ; fertile glume 
narrowly linear-lanceolate, hyaline, 3-nerved, entire, the upper 
third thickened and passing into a flexuose awn more than four 
times the length of the spikelet ; awn yellowish and shortly hairy 
