198 XXVIII, GRAMINE, [ Lricholena 
decumbent base, nodes shortly hairy, lower internodes short, 
covered by the compressed leaf-sheaths, subterete with a deep 
longitudinal groove ; ligule represented by a row of white hairs 
less than 1 line long; blade linear-tapering, acute, like the sheaths 
sparsely scabridulously hairy when young ; panicle elegant, secund, 
carried far above the foliage on the elongated slender ultimate 
internode ; spikelets elongated, sessile or subsessile on the short 
flexuose branches of the stoutish, scabridulous, deeply striate, 
angular rhachis, with an involucre of stiffish white-red transparent 
hairs about half its length ; glume I. minute, hairy; gl. II. sub- 
chartaceous, convex, oblong when flattened and tapering towards 
the bifid apex, seabridulous, especially on the 5 conspicuous straight 
nerves, awn many times exceeding the spikelet ; gl. III. resembling 
gl. II. but slightly shorter and narrower with a fine awn one to 
several times its length or awnless and mucronate, slightly 
exceeding the pale with its ¢ flower; fertile gl. subcoriaceous, 
ovate-lanceolate, with minutely emarginate apex, 5-nerved, pale 
subequal similar but narrower. 
Plants reaching 2 ft. in height, lower internodes + to | in. long, 
the slenderer penultimate one exceeding its sheath, 3 to 4 in. 
long, the ultimate 10 to 12 in.; leaves 1 to 7 in. long, by 14 to 
22 lines broad, more or less ascending. Panicle 5 to 6 in. long, 
lateral branches about 1 in. below, becoming shorter upwards, 
with 1 to 2 in. interval between ; spikelets 24 to 3 lines long ; 
glume I. including the hairs less than + line; gl. IT. the length of 
the spikelet, minutely ciliolate on the edges and sometimes 
sparsely shortly pilose on the back, awn 2 to 4 in. long, purplish, 
minutely upwardly barbed ; gls. II. and III. pale stramineous or 
pale greenish, sometimes tipped with purple ; fertile glume about 3 
length of gl. II., greenish with margins minutely ciliolate above ; 
lodicules truncately obcuneate, anthers brownish, 1 line long. 
A very interesting species approaching the genus Melinis in 
the conspicuous straight nerves of its glabrescent barren glumes. 
It is nearest to 7. wniglumis Durand & Schinz, but distinguished 
by its narrower, less robust, long-awned spikelets, minute outer 
glume, etc. 
Pungo ANponGo.—An annual czspitose grass, 2 ft. high, panicles 
secund, very long-awned, purplish. Sandy wooded meadows between 
Caghuy and Sansamanda ; April 1857. No.'7413, Damp meadow near 
Sansamanda ; Feb. 1857. No. 2781. No. 2852 (no information). 
6. T. minutiflora Rendle sp. nov. 
Tall, ceespitose, culms decumbent-ascending, branched, internodes 
strong, terete, pubescent, except the upper enveloped for the whole 
or greater part of their length by the sheaths; nodes densely 
pubescent; ligule a line of short hairs; leaves spreading, flat, 
rigidulous, narrowly linear-lanceolate, acute, reddish, margin 
scabridulous-pilose, faces sparsely pilose ; panicle much branched, 
dense, narrow-lanceolate; spikelets shortly stalked, scarcely 
exceeding 1 line long, truncate; gl. I. about 1 the length of the 
spikelet, hairy at the base only; gl. II. thinly coriaceous below, 
