Tricholena] XXVIII. GRAMINEA, 199 
becoming membranous in the upper third, obovate when flattened, 
with 2 parallel nerves on each side the midrib anastomosing below 
the apex, apex bilobed, margin ciliate in the upper two-thirds, 
midrib bearing a median dorsal tuft of hairs, awn fine, about 
23 times the length of the glume; gl. III. similar but narrower, 
slightly shorter, and membranous, with a marginal tuft of hairs 
on each side; pale narrow, hyaline, slightly shorter; fertile gl. 2 
the length of the spikelet, glabrous, thinly coriaceous, transparent, 
elliptical with shortly bilobed apex, inconspicuously 3-nerved, 
enclosing a slightly shorter pale. 
Plants 3 ft. high ; internode below the flowering one 6 to 7 lines 
long, the lower 13 to 2 in. long, 1 line or less in width, clothed 
with the numerous reddish sheaths; ligule about } line long ; 
leaves from 1 to 3} in. long by 14 to 31 lines broad. Panicle 
about 4 in. long, generally less than 1 in. in width, previous 
internode 9 to 10 in., branches solitary, ascending to suberect, 
bearing numerous short slender flexuose branches, Spikelets 
truncate-elliptical, 14 line long; gl. I. hyaline, oblong, truncate, 
$ line long; callus below gl. II. bearing a lateral tuft of hairs ; 
gl. IT. a little over 1 line long, awn 23 lines; gl. III. 1 line long; 
fertile gl. 3 line long. 
Recalling 7. scabrida K. Schum. in habit, but a very distinct 
species characterised by its small laterally much-compressed 
spikelets, and tufted-hairy subcoriaceous awned glumes. 
Pungo ANDONGO.—A cespitose grass, 3 ft. high, with habit of 
Holcus. Plentiful, but in one place only, in the dry rocky woods near 
Sansamanda on the river Cuanza, and on the rocks near Sepulchra 
Mopopo ; 30 Apr. 1857. No. 2731. 
The following may belong to the genus, but in absence of 
flowers determination is impossible :— 
Punco ANDONGO.—Dec. 1856. No. 2762. 
31. MELINIS Beauv.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. p. 1119. 
1. M. minutiflora Beauv. Agrost. p. 54 (1812); Durand & 
Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 735. 
Panicum Melinis Trin. in Mém. Acad. Sci. Petersb. ser. 16. 
iii, pt. 2. p. 291 (1834); Steud. Syn. Pl. Gram. p. 84 (1854). 
GoLunco ALTO.—Panicles broadly pyramidal and a deep purple 
wine-colour, an ornament of the pastures but from the viscosity of. 
stem and leaves a great nuisance and disliked by cattle. Grows in 
dense masses in damp meadows, and also, but more rarely, in dry 
thickets near Sange and in the whole province of Golungo. Called 
Capim melado by the Portuguese colonists from the stickiness of stem 
and leaves ; Dec. 1854. No. 2992. Common in damp wooded places 
at Cungulungulo; Apr. 1856. No. 7198. 
Puneo ANDOoNGO.—Thickets between Catete and Luxillo ; May 1857. 
No. 7392. A czespitose grass, 3 to 4 ft. high, with ascending culms, 
In lofty rocky places at Pedra Cabondo; Apr. 1857. No. 2729. 
The spikelets vary in length from 3 to nearly 1} line, in the 
width of the glumes, especially of gl. III., the greater or less 
