174 XXVIII. GRAMINES. [Panicum 
Sect. 3.— HYMENACHNE. 
20. P. indicum L, Mant. p. 184 (1771); Steud., Zc. p. 84. 
Punco ANDoNGO.—Wooded marshy meadows near Pedras de 
Guinga ; March 1857. No. 2826. 
Var. elatum Hook. f. Flor. Brit, Ind. vii. p. 42 (1896). 
Pungo Anpongo.—Damp wooded meadows between Condo and 
Quisonde ; March 1857. No. 7411. No. 2844 (no information). 
21. P. interruptum Willd. Sp. Pl. i. p. 341 (1797); Steud., Zc.,. 
p. 66; Durand & Schinz, lc, p. 751. 
GoLuNGo ALTO ?—No. 2963 (no information). 
Punco Anponco.—A grass 3 to 4ft. high, with flaccid leaves. Banks. 
of the Calunda stream ; Jan. 1857. No. 2715. 
The spikelets in both numbers are blunter than usual in the 
species. 
22. P. seslerioides Rendle sp. nov. 
Rhizome tough, rounded, whitish in colour, aerial stems slender, 
erect, leafy to the middle, and ending in a short oblong crowded 
spike; leaves narrow, suberect, subrigid, blade linear-tapering and 
like the sheath plicate at the strong midrib ; ligule white, mem- 
branous, truncate, outer edge ciliate ; upper margins of the sheath 
and upper face of the blade sparsely hairy; spikelets sessile, 
ovate, generally acute, glabrous, purplish ; glume I. ovate, obtuse, 
with a broad amplexicaul base, submembranous, 3-nerved, scarcely 
half the length of gl. TII.; gis. II. and III. subequal, broadly 
ovate, subrigid, with 7 rather prominent nerves, IT. acute, IIT. sub- 
acute and paleate, containing a d¢ flower; fertile gl. small, 
colourless, very broadly ovate and blunt, quite smooth, with 5 
inconspicuous nerves, enclosing a ? flower. 
Rhizome 1 to 13 lines in thickness, bearing whorls of roots at 
its well-marked nodes. Plants 14 to 16 in. high, forming a small 
tuft of shoots, one of which elongates to bear the spike. Leaf- 
sheaths narrow, striate, closely appressed to the stem, 1 to 13 in. 
long in the radical leaves, reaching 23 in. in the cauline; blades. 
from 1} to 6 in. in length, 1} to scarcely 1 line in greatest width. 
Spikes 2 in. long by } broad; spikelets 13 line long. Glume I. 
# line long, gl. IT. scarcely 14 line, gl. III. 13 line, fertile gl., 
which is quite concealed within gl. II, only 1 line, 
Near P. indicum, but distinguished by its striking Sesleria-like 
habit, with its tufts of erect rigid leaves, its long erect scape and 
short oblong crowded inflorescence. 
Huiitia.—Nene heights, on the stream ; April 1860. No. 2636. 
23, P. myosuroides R. Br. Prodr. p. 189 (1810); Steud., Le., 
p. 56; Durand and Schinz, l.c.. p. 755. 
Hviiia.—Woody meadows between Lopollo and Catumba; May 
1860. No. 2700. No. 7502 (no information). 
24. P. huillense Rendle sp. nov. 
Plants annual, glabrous, 3 to 6 in. high; radical leaves narrow 
linear-plicate or with involute margins, sheaths rather broad, and 
