Paniewn| XXVIII GRAMINEA, 183. 
Aug. 1859. No. 2596. On the sandy banks of the river Bero, now 
almost entirely dried up; July 1859. No. 2614. An annual grass, 
scarcely a span high, erect, branched from the base; culms smooth, 
long-sheathed, branchlets generally secund, spikes contracted ovate- 
lanceolate, greenish red. Rather rare in submaritime sandy places at 
Saco do Giradl ; in fl. 19 July 1859. No. 2616. A widely-spreading 
pleasing grass, glaucous, a span high, with lax spreading panicles. 
Banks of river Bero ; Aug. 1859. Con. Carp. 1114. 
Loanpa.—1853-4. No. 7378. 
The specimens from Loanda resemble those from Madagascar, 
having rather tall elongated shoots, with a large diffuse panicle. 
Those from Mossamedes are, as we might expect from their 
psammophilous habit, low-growing, with a number of shorter 
decumbent shoots spreading from the rooting nodes of the 
rhizome; the panicle is also much smaller and very dense. 
Var. brevispiculum Rendle var. nov. 
Distinguished by its smaller and more delicate inflorescence, 
smaller spikelets, and invariably truncate barren glumes. 
Loanpa.—In sandy places among mandioc plantations and also 
ubiquitous in uncultivated places. Museque do Luiz Gomes ; April 
1854. No. 7290. Habit of dira and Agrostis, Common in gravelly 
laces on Cazanga Island and almost always in flower ; April and May 
1854. No. 7297. A grass with the habit of Agrostis, apparently bi- 
to tri-ennial, root fibrous, multicaulescent, culms 1 to 2 ft., radiately 
decumbent-ascending, very tough. Colour of flowers, violet. Very 
common in gravelly places, in fields and between rows of mandioc 
in the south plain beyond Loanda; in fl. 10 Jan. 1858. No. 72970. 
In gravelly soul, mandioc plantations near Museque do Luiz Gomes ; 
March 1854. No. 7457. Ilha de Cazanga; 30 April 1854. CoLL- 
Carp. 1097 (Masango mendo). 1853-4. Nos. 7379, 7380, 7381, 7383- 
No. 2907 (no information). 
41. P. trichoides Sw. Prodr. p. 24 (1788). 
GoLunGo ALTO ?—No. 2962 (no information). 
Agrees with the type of the species which is Sloan. Jam., p. 115 
t. 72 f. 3; the plant figured by Sloane occurs in his herbarium, at 
the British Museum. 
Sect 5.—Grpsos# (Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vii. p. 28). 
42. P. patens L. Sp. Pl. p. 58 (1753). 
P. radicans Retz. Obs. iv. p. 18 (1786). P. setigerum Beauv. 
Fl. Owar. i. p. 82, t. 49 (1806-7). 
GoLuneo ALTo.—An elegant very graceful grass with czspitose 
growth. In the shade of primitive woods, Monte de Queta. Mata de 
Mangues ; May 1856. No. 7210. In shady woods on mountains of 
Alto Queta ; end of May 1855. No. 7263. Czespitose graceful panicles 
with subverticillate nodding branches. Shady places on Alto Queta ; 
June 1855. Cou. Carp. 1086. 
Differs from the Asiatic form only in its long-haired spikelets. 
