200 XXVIII, GRAMINEA, [Melinis 
prominence of the veins, the size of the minute lowest barren 
glume, and the presence or length of the awn on the third glume. 
The awn may be present or absent in the same panicle. Gls. IT. 
and III. may be glabrous or slightly hairy. 
Var. inermis Doell in Mart. Flor. Bras. ii, pt. 2. p. 242 (1877). 
GoLunco A.tTo.—Perhaps a variety of the grass called Capim 
melado. Rather rare in sunny grassy places on the Cuango near 
Sange ; Feb. 1855. No. 2991. 
Var. biaristata Rendle var. nov. 
Spikelets narrow (1+ line long), gl. IT. with an awn nearly 4 the 
length of that of gl. ITI., which is often 1 in. or more in length. 
Punco ANDoNGO.—Sandy thickets near the edges of woods hard by 
the Quilanga road ; May 1857. No. 2830. 
Var. effusa Rendle var. nov. 
Panicle effuse, often large, branchlets capillary, flexuose, 
spikelets small (not exceeding # line in length), long-stalked, more 
oval than in the type with glumes broader in proportion to their 
length ; gl. IIT. oval with a long capillary awn. 
Puxnco ANpoNGO.—Common in sandy wooded places near Luxillo 
and Cazella ; May 1857. No. 2831. 
GoLuNGo ALTO.—A grass conspicuous for*its beautiful violet-red 
spikelets, in poor soil in sunny places near Cambondo; June 1855. 
No. 2958. No. 2973 (no information). 
2. M. angolensis Rendle sp. nov. 
Habit of MW. minutiflora, culms stoutish, cylindrical, closely 
enveloped in the lower half by the hairy sheaths ; leaves lanceo- 
late, acute, stiff, spreading; panicle dense, lanceolate; spikelets 
glabrous, 13 line long; lowest barren glume very minute; gl. II. 
ovately-oval, convex, with 7 well-marked nerves, midrib carinulate, 
prolonged into a short weak awn between the short rounded apical 
lobes; gl. ILI. slightly shorter and narrower than gl. II, 
7-nerved, apex emarginate, unawned, with a narrow hyaline pale 
anda ¢ flower ; fertile gl. slightly shorter, hyaline, ovately oval, 
very inconspicuously 5-nerved, apex emarginate, with a similar 
subequal blunt pale. 
Shoots 3 ft. long, unbranched except at the lower nodes ; inter- 
nodes with sheath, 1 line in diameter, 1 to 11 in. long in lower half 
of shoot, becoming longer (3 to 5 in.) below the inflorescence ; 
nodes where exposed shortly hairy; sheaths with stiffish white 
hairs from a reddish-brown tubercle; ligule a dense ridge of 
whitish hairs about 1 line long; blade 12 to 3 in. long, 32 to 5 
lines broad, base rounded, tapering above toa long point, flattened, 
surface glabrous, margin sparsely ciliate. Panicle 5 in. long by 
1 in. greatest breadth a little above the base, branches alternate 
except at the base, the lower 1} to 2 in. long, sharply ascending ; 
spikelets shortly stalked, crowded on the short branchlets; gl. I. 
rz line long, semicircular with a fringe of hairs at its base ; gl. IT. 
1i line, apex shortly bifid, membranous between the prominent 
parallel nerves; gl. ITI. 14 line, oval, more membranous than 
