Setaria] XXVIII, GRAMINEA, 187 
lets, ovately-oval, subpungent, oblique, scarcely 1 line long ; 
glume I. short, subgibbous, 3-nerved, a little more than } the 
length of the spikelet; gls. II. and III. broadly ovate, 5-nerved, 
shortly acute, the latter larger and subtending an equal pale with: 
a & flower; fertile gl. slightly shorter than gl. ITI., coriaceous, 
transversely rugulose, strongly convex, light brown. 
Shoots 2 to 2% ft. long, geniculate at lower nodes ; internodes 
long, stiff, slender, terete, polished; nodes well-marked, brown. 
Sheaths stiff, loose, often longer than the lower internodes, but 
shorter, often much shorter than the upper, striate, glabrous, 
ciliate at the mouth, with minutely ciliate margins when young ; 
ligule a dense row of short hairs; lamina thin with subpromi- 
nent light-coloured midrib and 3 lateral veins on each side, upper 
face and margins minutely scabridulous, veins pilosulose on the 
lower face, apex drawn out to a fine point, 5 to 10 in. long, 2 to 
34, lines greatest width. -Panicles 4 to 6 in. long, generally 2 to 
1} in. broad; branches generally about 1 in, long (rarely 2 in.) 
below, becoming shorter as we ascend ; the longer ones bearing 
short branchlets below. Spikelets reddish-green on very short 
pedicels, which bear a single hair-like seta slightly exceeding or 
2 to 3 times the length of the spikelet. Glumes shortly and 
abruptly acute, except the fertile membranous; gl. I. ovate- 
orbicular, 2 line long; gl. II. very broadly shortly ovate, } line 
long; gl. III. broadly convex below, converging above to the 
short acumen, pale large, flat, suboblong. Fertile gl. 3 to 4 line 
long, oval or ovately oval in outline when in natural position, 
faintly 5-nerved. 
Distinguished from the narrow-leaved varieties of S. mauritiana 
by its smaller, more ovate spikelets, and non-plicate leaves. 
Puneo ANDONGO.—Woody thickets between the presidium and 
Luxillo ; middle of Dec. 1856. No. 2753. Dec. 1856. Nos. 2764 
and 2764) ; No. 2858 (no information). 
Prince’s Istanp.—A cwspitose grass, polymorphous according to 
the stage of development and condition of soil. In gravelly places 
near the stream, growing with ferns not far from the sea. Evidently 
an emaciated form of the same species as the Pungo Andongo plants. 
A very similar plant was collected by Don in St. Thomas’ Island. 
5. S. mauritiana Spreng. Syst. i. p. 305 (1825). 
Panicum palmeefolium Koen, in Naturforsch. xxiii. p. 208 (1788). 
P. plicatum Lam. Il. p. 171 (1791); Benth. in Hook. Niger 
FI. p. 561 (1849) ; Durand & Schinz, L¢., p. 759. P. mauritianwm 
Willd. ex Spreng., Jc. 
Prince’s Istanp.—A very fine grass, cespitose, with stems 
frequently 5, or even 6 ft., generally 4 ft. high. Common in dense 
primitive woods near streams at the foot of Pico de Papagaio ; Sept. 
1853. No. 2933. 
GoLtunco ALTO.—A gigantic grass, 6 to 9 ft. very beautiful on 
account of its very broad longitudinally plicate leaves, worthy to be 
classed among the ornamental plants of tropical Africa, extremely 
varied in breadth and hairiness of leaf. Plentiful in shady rather 
damp places, especially near streams, in the whole district of Golungo. 
