Melinis| XXVIII. GRAMINE®. 201 
gl. II., margin as in gl. IJ. minutely ciliate above the middle, 
pale scarcely 1 line ; fertile gl. 1 line. 
Distinguished from A. minutiflora by its larger spikelets, the 
awned second and blunt third barren glume, and the presence of 
a & flower in the axil of the latter. 
Punco Anponco.—Called by the colonists Cupim de Cavalla, Lofty 
Oa at Pedra de Cabondo in the presidium; middle of April 1857. 
0. F 
3. M. Welwitschii Rendle sp. nov. 
Widely cespitose, culms tough, slender, geniculate, decumbent- 
ascending, internodes except the uppermost short, pubescent, 
generally enveloped by the scabridulous-pubescent sheaths ; ligule 
pilose; blades spreading, shortly linear-lanceolate, apex acute, 
subpungent, pilose, margin scabridulous-pilose; panicle small, 
narrow, rhachis, branches and pedicels flexuose, hirsutulous ; spike- 
lets shortly-stalked, 14 line long, outline elliptical before spreading ; 
glume I. reduced to an inconspicuous amplexicaul ridge of hairs ; 
gls. II. and ITI. subequal, convex, coriaceous, 7-nerved, lateral 
nerves parallel and ceasing at the shortly bilobed apex, keel 
minutely scabridulous, margin ciliolate especially in the upper 
portion, gl. II. subovate when flattened, bearing a slender awn 
from the sinus 3 times its length, gl. III. narrower, less tough, 
mucronate, enclosing a slightly shorter broad hyaline pale; 
fertile gl. shorter, thinly coriaceous, elliptical, with truncate 
mucronulate apex, 5-nerved ; pale subequal and narrower. 
Described from a single branched spreading shoot less than 
1} ft. high ; internodes except the flowering ? to 1} in. long, not 
exceeding 2 line in thickness, terete, reddish ; sheaths the same 
length or slightly shorter ; ligule a row of hairs about 1 line long ; 
blades 1 to 2 in. long by 3 to 5 lines broad. Panicles 2} in. long 
by about 3 in. or less in width, branches solitary, short, ascending to 
suberect ; pedicels bearing a ring or tuft of stiff whitish hairs just 
below the joint reaching to about the middle of the light-coloured 
spikelet. Gls. II. and III. the length of the spikelet ; fertile gl. 
smooth, with convolute margins and rounded back, scarcely 
exceeding 1 line in length. 
Is nearest to M. angolensis, but evidently a smaller plant, dis- 
tinguished by its stronger spikelets with the obsolete lowest glume, 
and finely awned second glume. 
Punco ANDONGO.—A widely cespitose grass, rarely flowering. On 
the most lofty rocks of the presidium ; Apr. 1857. No. 7390. 
4, M. tomentosa Rendle sp, nov. 
Culms much branched, spreading, ascending from a creeping 
base ; internodes strong, slender, terete, crimson, short, enveloped 
by the subequal hirsute sheaths; ligule a row of whitish hairs; 
blades flat, linear-lanceolate from a cordate base, acute, margin 
strong, hirsutulous, faces more or less sparsely pubescent, gla- 
brescent in the upper leaves; panicle small, dense, narrowly 
oblong, rhachis and solitary ascending branches pilose; spikelets 
