Tricholena| XXVIII. GRAMINEA, 195 
lc. ; T. Dregeana Durand & Schinz, Lc. ; Panicum Braunii Steud., 
Le, p. 93. 
Bhynchelythrum Dregeanwm Nees, l.c., p. 64. 
Loanpa.—A grass apparently lasting several years, laxly caspitose, 
with stems ascending or suberect, branched, 2 to 3ft. long. Spikelets. 
clothed with long closely clinging hairs of a very beautiful rose-violet ; 
one of the most elegant of grasses. Rather plentiful in sandy, 
especially rather damp plains, but also in dry places, where the stems 
are scarcely a foot Jong. Represa de Luiz Gomes in the Loanda 
district ; Jan. 1859. No. 2908. No. 7330 (no information). Cacuaco; 
May 1854. No. 7472. A caspitose grass, with shining violet flowers, 
and the habit of A‘. Cacuaco on low hills covered with herbage ; 
July 1854. Corin. Carr. 114. 
ZENZA DO GoLUNGO.—In dry rocky places near the river Calucala ; 
Sept. 1854. No. 7211. ; 
GoLuNGOo ALT0.-—A grass 2 to 4 ft. high, remarkable from its shining- 
silvery spikelets. In damp meadows on the edges of woods in Sobato 
da Bumba : May 1855. No. 7243. Flowers a beautiful silvery-violet. 
In wooded meadows. Sobato da Bumba; Dec. 1855. No. 7241. 
6 to 8 ft. high, culms prostrate-ascending, rooting at the nodes. By 
the cataracts of the river Cuango near Cacuso ; beginniug of August 
1855. No. 3002. No. 7242 (no information). 
Punco AnpoNGO.—A grass 3 to 33 ft., apparently annual and also 
perennial, panicle shiny-violet, conspicuous among all the grasses of the 
district, and a striking ornament in rather damp meadows and pastures, 
where it grows in great quantity. Plentiful in rather damp thicket- 
grown pastures close by the banks of the river Cuanza near Candumba, 
etc.; Jan. 1857, No. 2774. Lombe in rather damp meadows ; very 
beautiful; March 1857. No. 2721. Spikelets becoming violet. In 
rocky thickets in the presidium ; May 1857. No. 2828. 
MossaMEDES.—In sandy places covered with short bushes at the 
banks of the river Bero near Cavalheiros ; July 1859. No. 2288. 
Huitia.—In wooded meadows of Morro de Monino, now almost 
entirely fed down; May 1860. No. 2664. In abandoned fields and 
neighbouring thickets, and also among maize plantations throughout 
the whole country of Lopollo. Affords excellent fodder for cattle. 
April 1860. No. 2665. A grass 3 to 4 ft. high, laxly ceespitose, 
narrow-leaved, flowers panicled, shining purple at first, then cinnamon. 
Plentiful in rather damp meadows near Lopollo ; in fr. April 1860. 
Cott. Carp. 1111. 
The spikelets vary much in size in different specimens, from 
13 to nearly 32 lines long. The largest occur in the Mossamedes 
plant. With so complete a gradation in size the establishment 
of major or minor varieties is meaningless. 
Var. collina Rendle var. nov. 
Smaller than the type with slender rigid shoots (14 to 18 in. 
high) spreading from the base and short rigid generally convolute 
leaves. Lower internodes 3 line in diameter ; leaves 1} to 5 in. 
generally 2 to 4 in. long, and when not convolute about 1} line 
broad. Spikelets 14 to 2 lines long, hairs reddish or almost white. 
AmBrIz.—Nov. 1853. No. 28094. 
Loanpa.—Low hills near Quifandongo; Dec. 1853. No. 7309. 
Dry places near Maianga do Povo ; July 1858. No. 7309). Hillsnear 
Cacuaco ; Dec. 1853. No. 7342. 
