164 XXVIII. GRAMINE. [Digitaria 
Sierra Lronr.—Sept. 1853. No. 2943. 
GoLtuxco ALTO.—Frequent in woody meadows near Bumbo and 
Sange. A grass 1 to 4 ft. high like a Digitaria, thickly crowded with 
other grasses, especially species of Panicum on the margins of thickets; 
Dec. 1854. No. 7184. 
Var. interrupta Rendle var. nov. 
Perennial; shoots tall, strict, erect ; spikes (11) ascending with 
a slender trigonous rhachis, spikelets in interrupted pairs, oval, 
narrowing to an obtuse apex, 14 line long; subsidiary glume 
minute, triangular; barren glumes subequal, with well-marked 
nerves and 4 lines of short ascending hairs, oval, the lower slightly 
narrower, 5-nerved, tapering to a blunt fimbriated apex, the upper 
T-nerved and tapering to a blunt point; fertile glume broadly 
oval, obtuse, inconspicuously 3-nerved, the edges incurved and 
becoming very thin, membranous, and enclosing a slightly 
narrower pale. 
Stems 3 to 31 ft. with pubescent nodes. Leaves long, linear- 
tapering, glabrous ; sheaths glabrous, sparsely pilose at the mouth ; 
ligule short, membranous, truncate. Spikelets bluish. , 
Huiiitsa.—Grassy hills near Lopollo towards Catumba; end of 
Feb. 1860. No. 2675. 
8. D. moninensis Rendle sp. nov. 
Perennial with a slender woody rhizome ; stems erect, slender, 
stramineous ; nodes hairy; basal leaves short, linear-lanceolate 
to linear-tapering, cauline with long sheaths and short linear- 
lanceolate acuminate blades much shorter than the internodes; 
spikes dense, binate; rhachis flattened, margined, Hexuose ; spike- 
lets generally in groups of four (sometimes fewer) on flexuose 
pedicels varying in length, ovate, plano-convex, clothed with long 
shining rosy-purplish silky hairs; subsidiary glume minute, 
delicate, transparent, enerved, embracing the base of the spikelet ; 
outer barren glume green, narrow-lanceolate, 3-nerved, densely 
clothed with short stiffish hairs, shorter than the fertile glume ; 
inner barren glume longer than the outer, ovate, shortly acuminate, 
flat with incurved hairy edges, strong midrib, and two pairs of 
weaker lateral nerves, membranous between the nerves, epaleate ; 
fertile glume sharply convex, oval, shortly acuminate, coriaceous, 
yellowish-brown, minutely transversely punctulate ; pale subequal 
flattened. 
Plants 14 to 26 in. high. Leaf-sheaths cylindrical, appressed, 
closely striolate, the lower hairy, 1 to 3 in. long, hairs ascending 
or suberect, the cauline subglabrous, 5 to 7 in.; ligule short, 
membranous, truncate, less than } line long, upper margin bearing 
a row of erect whitish hairs; blades flat, margined, acute, lower 
face hairy like the sheaths, upper striate, glabrous, the lower 
generally 4 to 3 in. long by 1 to 2 lines broad, the cauline 1 in. 
or less. Spikes 3 to 4 in, long, ultimately diverging, rhachis 1 to 
3 line broad. Spikelets (including hairs) 2 lines long, pedicels 
from scarcely 1 to nearly 3 lines; subsidiary glume not exceeding 
x line, truncate or very obtuse, or irregular in shape; outer 
