154 XXVIII. GRAMINEAE. [ Heteropogon 
The following supplements Hackel’s description :—Ligule mem- 
branous, truncate, entire, glabrous, reaching 1 line in length on 
the lower leaves; leaf-blades narrowly convolute tapering to a 
pungent apex, glabrous, under exposed face conspicuously veined, 
reaching 81 in. in length, becoming shorter upwards. 
Punco AnponGco.—Sandy places on the banks of the river Cuanza ; 
Feb. 1857. No. 2777. 
14. CYMBOPOGON Spr. Pl. Min. Cogn. Pug. ii. p. 14 (1815). 
Andropogon L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iti. p. 1133 pro parte. 
1. C. schenanthus Spr., /.c., p. 15. 
Andropogon schenanthus L. Sp. Pl. p. 1046 (1753) ; Hack. Mon, 
Androp. p. 609 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 722. 
Var. densiflorus. 
Subsp. densiflorus Hack., i.c., p. 611, extended, the specimens 
having larger racemes and spikelets, ultimate spathes 7 to 8 lines 
long, racemes 51 to 7 lines long, spikelets 2 lines, but otherwise 
conforming to the description. 
GoLunco ALTO.—A fine grass, the whole tinged with a very glaucous 
red colour, a very celebrated remedy among the Golungo physicians. 
Root pleasantly aromatic. Rather rare near Sange; not yet in full 
flower, June 1855. Differs abundantly from all the rest of the genus 
seen in tropical Africa by the glaucous colour of the stem and leaves. 
Native name Saca. On right of river Cuango ; Aug. 1855. No. 3006. 
Nos. 7238, 2952. Saco, species of Andropogon used by the natives as 
a tonic for headache (see Welw. Apont., p. 541), and also a favourite 
antidote against Stramony poisoning ; June 1856. Cou. Carp. 1092. 
Punco Anponco.—A perennial grass 5 to 8 ft. high, with erect 
branched culm, and raceme-like nodding-patulous panicles. Leaves and 
root pleasantly aromatic smelling almost like citron. On rather high 
hills on the banks of the river Cuanza; 4 March 1857. No. 2725. 
5 to 7 ft. high, erect, rather fine-looking, with a creeping rhizome. 
In grassy thickets between Candumba and Mangue; March 1857. 
No. 7428. 
Var. stypticus var. nov. 
A. stypticus Welw. Syn. Explic. p. 27 (1862). 
Leaf-blades linear-tapering with setaceous apex, 10 to 12 in. 
long, } to little over 4 in. broad, glabrous, glaucous, base cordate ; 
ligule broadly ovate trom a truncate base, membranous, 2 to 3 
lines long ; inflorescence elongated 15 in. long, nodding, consisting 
of several dense suboval axillary panicles passing above into a 
dense subsecund falcate terminal panicle; ultimate spathes } to 
2 in. long, racemes 5 to 7 lines; sessile spikelets oblong-lanceo- 
late 1% to 2 lines long, outer glume enerved, median furrow 
extending from the base to about the middle; gl. IV. narrowly 
linear, 1 line long, shortly bifid with a weak imperfect awn 2 to 
24 lines long springing from the incision ; pedicelled spikelet 14 
to 13 lines long (2 lines with pedicel), neuter, outer glume oblong- 
lanceolate, 3-nerved, inner glume small, hyaline, other glumes 
unrepresented. 
Hvi.ia.—Very common in meadows and thickets throughout the 
whole country of Huilla, especially between Lopollo and Nene and 
