Panicum| XXVIII. GRAMINEA, 179 
Huitia.—In bush-grown wooded places at Monino ; April 1860. 
No. 2686. 
32. P. gracilicaule Rendle sp. nov. 
Annual, ceespitose, glabrescent, shoots slender, branching, ascend- 
ing to erect, sometimes geniculately decumbent below ; leaves 
short, linear-tapering, acute, spreading to suberect; panicle as 
in last species but smaller; spikelets glabrous, oval to ovate, 
lline long ; glume I. reaching about 2 length of spikelet, broadly 
ovate, blunt, incompletely 3-nerved ; gl. IT. slightly longer than 
gl. TII., broadly ovate, blunt, 5-nerved, very convex; gl. ITI. 
somewhat similar but broader than gl. II. with broad translucent 
margins, sheltering an ovate pale with a ¢ flower; fertile gl. 
small, thinly coriaceous, suborbicular with a blunt apex, bearing 
on the outside numerous white warts; pale subequal similarly 
warted. 
A graceful plant ; shoots subglabrous, 9 to 16 in. long, crowded 
at the base. Internodes very slender, terete, 1} to 2} in. long ; 
nodes glabrous. Sheaths narrow, subcompressed, striate with 
minutely ciliate edges, about half the length of the internodes ; 
ligule forming a row of stiff erect white hairs 4 line long; 
blade 11 to 23 in. long by nearly 2 lines broad, thin, veining in- 
conspicuous, surface glabrous or minutely and sparsely hairy. 
Inflorescence resembling that of the last species but the panicle 
only from 2} to 3 in. long; spikelets glabrous. Glume I. } line 
long, edges broad and translucent; gl. II. 1 line; gl. ITTg 
scarcely 1 line, thinly membranous, suborbicular when flattened, 
pale 4 line, anthers light brown, 3 line long. Fertile gl. } to 3 
line, 5-nerved, pale subequal, broadly oval, enfolding a 3 flower. * 
Near P. subrepandum, but a smaller more delicate plant, with 
smaller spikelets, which are also distinguished by the ovate lowest 
glume and the very small fertile flower. 
Punco ANDONGO.—Nos. 2857, 2862¢ (no information), 
Hvu1Lia.—Wooded meadows near Humpata, found in many places 
but almost destroyed by the fires of the Monanensian war: April 
1860. No. 2687. 
Also collected in Gambia by Mungo Park. 
33. P. Beccabunga Rendle sp. nov. 
A small glabrous herb with stems creeping and rooting at the 
nodes, ultimately decumbent; internodes short, leaf-sheaths 4 
to 1 their length, ligule reduced to a very narrow membranous 
ridge, blades short, narrowly ovate to lanceolate, with a rounded 
amplexicaul base and acute apex; panicle very small, ovate to 
oval, branches few, ascending-rigidulous, pedicels short, spikelets 
ellipsoid ; barren glumes submembranous, blunt, the outermost 
subovately oval, 3-nerved, blunt, ? the length of the spikelet, 
gl. II. oval, 5-nerved, slightly exceeding gl. III., which is oblong- 
oval, with membranous incurving edges, and subtends a narrower 
oblong pale ; fertile gl. coriaceous, broadly oval, polished, whitish. 
Shoots a foot, or generally more, in length, internodes terete, 
about 2 in. long, becoming a little shorter above, less than } line in 
