196 XXVIII, GRAMINEA, [Zricholena 
Var. glabrescens Rendle var. nov. 
Outer surface of the barren glumes almost glabrous, except on 
the keel of the second, which bears a line of hairs in the lower half. 
Huitia.—Spikelets sometimes violet sometimes yellowish. In 
rocky places near the cataract on the river at Fazenda de Ferrdo da 
Sola, in the district of Lopollo ; Feb. 1860. No. 7653. 
MossaMEDES.—In sandy thickets at Quipola, but not plentiful ; 
Aug. 1859. No. 2610. 
3. T. bellespicata Rendle sp. nov. 
Cespitose, shoots ascending, branched, pilose-hirsutulose, be- 
coming glabrous above; nodes densely hairy; leaves linear, 
tapering towards both ends, acute; panicle dense, secund, 
spikelets large, bearing long stiffish red shining hairs; glume I. 
minute; gl. II. separated by a short internode from the first, 
large, coriaceous, folded along the stout hairy midrib, which is 
prolonged into an awn equal to the length of the glume; gl. ITT. 
similar but narrower than the second, and with a longer awn, 
including a shorter narrow membranous pale with a ¢ flower ; 
fertile gl. small, membranaceo-coriaceous convex, subtending a 
similar but shorter pale and a § flower. 
Perennial (?) from a slender rhizome ; shoots 16 to 20 in. long. 
Internodes slender, } line in diameter at the base of the shoot, 
the lower ones short, hairy, the upper elongated and glabrous 
except below the nodes. Sheaths reddish, membranous, striate, 
lower ones exceeding the internodes and bearing numerous whitish 
hairs often from a tubercled base ; upper becoming looser and 
shorter than the internodes, subglabrous or glabrous; ligule 
represented by a line of short dense hairs; blade flattened, 
subrigid, generally 3} to 53 in. long by 11 to 14 lines broad, 
tuberculately pilose especially on the under face. Panicle 33 to 
4 in. long, branches ascending, secund, lowest about 1 in. long, 
spikelets shortly stalked on the branches, or small lateral 
branchlets. Pedicel bearing a small tuft of spreading hairs on 
the swollen end. Spikelets about 23 lines long. Glume I. } line 
long, coriaceous, scaphoid, the end truncate or rounded, enerved, 
bearing a short tuft of hairs at its insertion ; gl. IT. about 22 lines 
long, with a pair of well-marked lateral nerves, each half narrowly 
suboblong, tapering above to a rounded tip which projects slightly 
beyond the insertion of the awn, margin ciliolate, back and sides 
bearing numerous stiffish rosy hairs, often from a tubercled base, 
about equal to the length of the glume; gl. III. with an awn 
twice its length and tubercled hairs chiefly near the margin and 
especially in the upper half, pale 14 line long, glabrous, sharply 
folded between the well-marked nerves; sometimes two of the 
three stamens are minute and apparently barren. Fertile gl. 14 
line long, glabrous, inconspicuously 5-nerved, with narrow oval- 
oblong sides tapering towards the bluntish tip ; pale 12 line long. 
Near the Abyssinian 7’. longiseta Hochst., from which it is dis- 
tinguished by habit, leaves with narrow base, and larger spikelets 
with stronger proportionately narrower second and third barren 
