Andropogon] XXVIII, GRAMINES. 143 
Var. gracilis Rendle var. nov. 
Spikes very slender, with slender glabrous rhachis-joints, 
An erect plant 4 ft. high, culms densely leaved at the stout 
base, leaf-blades linear, acute, 8 to 10 in. long, 2 to 3 lines broad ; 
spikes 33 to 43 in. long, rather lax. 
PunGo ANDONGO ? (no information). No. 2869. 
The following number, which is inadequately represented in 
Herb. Mus. Brit., probably belongs to this species :— 
Punco ANDONGO.—Thin woods near Calundo; March 1857. No. 7438. 
4, A. lopollensis Rendle sp. nov. 
Apparently perennial, ceespitose, glabrous excepting the spikes, 
culms springing from the tufts of leaves, short (9 to 14 in.), 
flexuose above, bearing short branches which like the main 
axis end in a solitary pedunculate spike; leaf-sheaths short, 
compressed, subcarinate, much less than the compressed inter- 
node ; ligule short, membranous, truncate; blades rigid, linear, 
folded along the midrib, blunt, of the radical leaves falcate, of 
the cauline much shorter, and subpatent; spikes ultimately 
exceeding the narrowly lanceolate reddish spathes, peduncles 
erect, spikes short with 8 to 9 pairs of reddish heterogamous 
spikelets and a terminal male spikelet ; rhachis-joint shorter than 
the sessile spikelet, clavate, ending in a short irregular scarious 
cup, external margin and front bearing long white hairs over- 
topping the joint ; sessile spikelet oblong-lanceolate, blunt, sparsely 
hairy in the lower half; outer glume with carinate scabridulous 
margins and flat 4-nerved back, nerves becoming very faint 
below, apex bidenticulate; gl. II. subequal, linear-oblong, one- 
nerved, blunt, margin in upper half incurved, hyaline, ciliolate ; 
gl. III. hyaline, suboblong, apex retuse, enerved ; fertile glume 
suboblong, apex shortly bifid, awn weak, imperfect, springing 
from the notch, equal in length to the glume ; pedicelled spikelet 
&, compressed, lanceolate and acuminate, slightly smaller than 
the sessile, pedicel similar to rhachis-joint; gl. I. with keeled 
ciliolate margins, back 5-nerved, apex 3-nerved; gl. IT. slightly 
shorter, 3-nerved, lanceolate-oblong, margin as in sessile spikelet ; 
gl. III. broadly suboval from a truncate base, hyaline, blunt, 
margin ciliolate, inconspicuously 2-nerved ; gl. IV. oval, subacute, 
hyaline, inconspicuously 3-nerved. 
Specimen consisting of young shoots springing up after 
burning. Leaves scabridulous on the exposed lower face, the 
radical reaching 34 to 4 in. in length by 14 line wide; the 
cauline about as wide, 2 in. long below diminishing to less than 
34 in, in the upper part of the culm; sheaths about 1 in. long. 
Ultimate spathe about 13 lines; spikes 1} in. Rhachis-joints 
12 line long; sessile spikelet 23 to nearly 3 lines long; gl. II. 
subequal to or slightly shorter than gl. I., 25 to 23 lines long, 
membranous, transparent, tinged with red; gl. III. a little 
over 2 lines long, margins incurved, tinged with red; fertile 
glume 2 lines, or 4 lines including the awn. Pedicel and ¢ 
