208 XXVIII. GRAMINES. [Sporobolus 
with 1 to 3 long fine hairs; pedicels long, clavately swollen 
beneath the spikelet ; spikelets fuscous, a little over } line long, 
lanceolate becoming truncate-elliptical-oblong, barren glumes 
blunt, enerved, glabrous, membranous, the outer less than half 
the length of the spikelet, orbicular-ovate, the inner elliptical ; 
fertile glume broadly ovate, blunt, roundly convex, with a central 
nerve and two short submarginal lateral nerves, glabrous, pale 
subequal or slightly longer, broadly elliptical-obovate, very blunt ; 
anthers 3. 
Plants 9 to 14 in. high, the slender erect culms, with 4 to 5 
nodes, rising from crowded leafy tufts 1 to 12 in. high; leaves 
not exceeding 1 in., generally less, sheaths } to 1 in, the 
uppermost 14 to 2 in.; ligule less than } line. Panicle 24 
to 32 in. long by 1 to 2 in. broad, branches reaching 14 in. 
long, becoming shorter above the middle, branched again from 
the base, pedicels 2 to 4 times as long as the spikelet. Glume I. 
searcely } line long, gl. IT. a good } line, gl. IIT. a good + line, 
pale similar in texture and fuscous-green colour to the glume, 
upper margin membranous, very minutely ciliolate; anthers 
scarcely 3 line. 
Near S. minutiflorus Link, but distinguished by habit, short 
pungent leaves, and small capillary reticulate pilose panicle. 
Hv1L__a.—Poor pastures in the Lopollo district ; May 1860. No. 2690. 
7. §. andongensis Rendle sp. nov. 
Perennial, widely and densely ceespitose, leaf-shoots and erect 
culms springing from the massed withered leaf-sheaths; leaves 
suberect or ascending, rigidulous, linear, tapering to a pungent 
apex with strong submarginal nerves, sparsely pilose on the upper 
face; nodes glabrous; sheaths with ciliolate margin and pilose 
mouth ; ligule short, densely hairy ; panicle more or less ellipsoidal ; 
branches alternate, subascending, branchlets spreading at about 
45°, capillary, like the pedicels, nodes swollen and bearing tufts 
of hairs, pedicels 2 to several times as long as the spikelets, 
clavate at the tip, spikelets fuscous, lanceolate to oblong, 3 line 
long; barren glumes subequal, blunt, the outer ovate, 1-nerved, 
the inner elliptical, enerved ; fertile glume ovate, blunt or emar- 
ginate, 3-nerved, the lateral nerves falling short of the tip; pale 
slightly longer, elliptical, glabrous ; anthers 3. 
Plants 7 to 11 in. high; leaves to 3 in. long, about 1 line or 
less in breadth at the base; ligule 1 line; culms with 3 to 4 
internodes, slender. Panicle diffuse, to 4 in. long by 12 in. broad, 
branches reaching 1} in. Barren glumes of spikelets between 
x and } line long, fertile glume a good 2 line, pale similar in 
colour and texture, } line; anthers scarcely 3 line long. 
Near the last species, but distinguished by its larger spikelets, 
subequal barren glumes, and linear-tapering leaves. 
Punco AnponGo.—Perennial, widely and densely cxspitose, leaves 
and culms erect, panicle diffuse. Wet meadows between Candumba 
and Lombe, growing with Lythracec, etc. ; March 1857. No. 2812. 
