Sorghum] XXVIII, GRAMINEA, 151 
glume of sessile spikelet elliptical-ovate to ovate obtuse, about 
3 lines long by 14 line broad, upper } to } chartaceous with 
greenish nerves, flattened, sparsely pilosulose especially in the 
upper half, depressed or not beneath the apex. Glumes almost 
glabrous and polished when mature, gaping widely to expose the 
reddish subglobular caryopsis with flattened hilum. Awn project- 
ing about 2 lines, including knee, from the spikelet. Sheaths and 
leaves tinged with blood-red. 
HviLia.—Sorghum red-seeded variety (Masambala rubro). Culti- 
vated promiscuously with the white-seeded variety and very common 
in all the country of Huilla; Feb. and May 1860. No. 2681. 
Panicle small, lanceolate, rhachis and branches sparsely villous 
to glabrous ; sessile spikelets broadly elliptical to ovate, 2} to 
21 by 14 to 14 lines ; pedicelled spikelet slightly shorter, blunt, 
unawned ; outer glume shining coriaceous, becoming more or less 
chartaceous greenish and nerved in the upper 4, sparsely hairy, 
not depressed below the blunt apex. 
PRINCE'S IsLanpD.—In gravel near Porto de 8. Antonio ; Sept. 1853. 
No. 2932. 
Var. ovuliferum Hack., /.c., p.510; Durand & Schinz, /.c., p. 725. 
Masambala bianco Welw., Zc. 
Huiiia.—Nearly always 5 to 6, sometimes 7 to 9 ft. high, narrowly 
erect, very beautiful and very productive. Very commonly cultivated 
in all the country of Huilla, where it is called Masamballa (bianco) ; 
April 1860. No. 2682. 
Var. obovatum subvar. nigrum Hack, J.c., p. 514. 
Very near var. saccharatum but glumes becoming a deep black 
when ripe, caryopsis reddish-brown. 
Loanpa.—Sorghum succharatum ? Cultivated round Mossamedes, 
where it was introduced in 1856. National garden; Dec. 1859. No. 2882. 
MossamMEDEs.—Sorghum saccharatum cultivated at Lisbon from 
seeds picked at Mossamedes ; taken in young and mature fruit ; July 
1863. No. 2881. . 
Huitia.—Sorghum saccharatum cultivated in Lopollo in this year 
for the first time from seeds from Lisbon, but almost entirely destroyed 
in the Monanensian war. Colonel Kneisman’s garden ; May 1860. 
No. 268205. 
«Var. angolense Rendle var. nov. 
Panicle rather dense, elliptical-oblong or lanceolate, 5 to 63 in 
long by 14 to 21 broad; branches erecto-patent, lowermost | vo 
2 in.; rhachis more or less villous especially at branch-origins ; 
sessile spikelet ovate to elliptical-ovate or elliptical, 13 to 2 lines 
long by 1 or scarcely 1 broad, pedicelled about 3 to 4 length of 
sessile ; sessile generally awned, awn bent horizontally at the point 
of emergence and protruding 12 to 2 lines. Outer glume coriaceous 
smooth and shiny to within } to 1 of the avex where it is greenish, 
chartaceous, inconspicuously nerved and like the edges sparsely 
hairy ; apex blunt ; subapical depression often present. 
Differs from var. saccharatwm in its smaller more shortly awned 
or awnless spikelets, and denser panicle. 
