172 XXVIII. GRAMINES, [Panicum 
base often much drawn out to an acute or acuminate apex, 
2 to 4 in. long by 3 to 4 lines broad or in the thick-stemmed 
plant 7 to 8 in. by often nearly 1 in. broad just above the base; 
midrib conspicuous in the under surface only. Stems leafy right 
up to the inflorescence, which in the smaller plants (No. 2625) is 
21 to 31 in. long, in No. 2626 forms a very dense narrow panicle 
9 in. long with greatest width of 14 in. about the middle. 
Spikelets covered with long ascending hairs. Glume I. 1} to 13 
line long, thinly membranous, 3-nerved, lateral nerves often short 
or even absent; gl. IT. broadly oval, narrowing slightly to the blunt 
tip, 5- or 7-nerved, with incurving edges 14 to nearly 2 lines long, 
edges incurved ; gl. III. ovate-obtuse, 13 to 2 lines long, 5-nerved, 
edges thin and incurved, enclosing an oval subequal pale and a 
& flower ; fertile gl. 14 line long, oval, sometimes tapering at 
the top, coriaceous, blunt or subacute, inconspicuously 5-nerved, 
glabrous, very minutely transversely rugulose on back, convex 
with the edges shortly inflexed and embracing the closely-fitting 
coriaceous pale. 
A very well-marked species, recalling in the shape of the 
spikelet, P. bolbodes Schweinf. and P. trichopus Hochst. 
MossaMEDES.—Panicum psammophilum Welw. Habit somewhat 
that of Tricholena, but scarcely a true Tricholena, as there is no in- 
volucre. Common and widely cespitose in rather damp sandy spots 
in the littoral valley between Cabo Negro and Mossamedes, at a place 
called ‘‘a Cazemba,” near Rio Oarvea; 3 Sept. 1859. No. 2624. 
Plentiful in sandy gravelly places near the sea, and with Aristida 
prodigiosa almost the only grass of this desert—yet scarcely liked by 
cattle, July to Sept. 1859. Common on sand-covered rocks near the 
sea at Port Alexander, and, except for a species of Lycium and some 
Borraginee the only vegetation in the place. About 150 ft. above 
Tiger Bay; end of Aug. 1859. No. 2626. Plentiful in dry sandy 
places by the sea near the town of Mossamedes (Aguada) ; end of 
June 1859. No. 2625. 
There are also specimens in the British Museum, collected at Fish 
Bay by Anthony Hove. 
13. P. numidianum Lam. Ill. i. p. 172 (1791); Benth., Le. ; 
Steud., Zc, p. 61; Durand & Schinz, l.c., p. 757. 
GoLuNnco ALTO ?—No. 2960 (no information). 
14, P. oryzoides Sw., Uc, p. 23; Steud. Uc, p. 80; non. 
P. latifolium L. Sp. Pl. p. 58 (1753). 
Puneo AnponGo,—A grass 6 to 8 ft. high-climbing, with aérial 
roots and bearded at the joints; rarely flowering. In thick rather: 
damp woods on the island of Calemba between Condo and Quisonde, 
river Cuanza ; March 1857. No. 7429. 
15. P. gahunense Hack. in Verh. Bot. Ver. Prov. Brandenb.. 
xxxi. p. 70 (1890) ; Durand & Schinz, J.c., p. 750. 
GoLungo ALro.—In the densest primitive forest. Cungulungulo ; 
Feb. 1855. No. 7174. A somewhat rigid, hard grass, dull green in 
colour, eminently social, thriving in the shade of primitive woods, soon 
disappearing never to return after the first cultivation of a place. 
Plentiful in dense very shady rather damp woods at Cungulungulo- 
