Sporobolus | XXVIII, GRAMINEA, 209 
8, S. pulchellus R. By. Prodr. p. 170 (1810) ; Kunth Rev. Gram. 
p. £19, t. 123. 
Vilfa pulchella Steud., l.c., p. 155. 
Punuo AxDoxGo.—Annual, laxly ceespitose, a span to a foot high, 
culms erect, slender, branched, spikes whorled, spikelets purplish. 
Damp sandy soil between the bridge of Luxillo and Cambambe ; Feb. 
1857. No. 2809. Plentiful in rather damp places by the sandy road- 
side between Candumba and Lombe ; March 1857. No. 2805. Damp 
places, Lombe ; March 1857. No. 2720. 
9. S. Molleri Hack. in Bol. Soc. Brot. v.p. 213 (1887); Durand 
«& Schinz, dc. p. 822. 
GoLuNGo ALTO.—Growing in dense masses, but not caspitose ; 
pleasing to cattle. Plentiful in sparsely grassed sunny places in poor 
soil near Sange (Caminho, near Bango) ; Dec. 1854. No. 2984. 
Punco ANDONGO.—No. 2843 (no notes). 
10. S. sanguineus Rendle sp. nov. 
Apparently annual, cespitose, culms tall, erect, unbranched, 
distichously sheathed at the hase; nodes purplish, glabrous; 
cauline internodes 4, subcompressed, glabrous, long and, including 
the lowest, exceeding the long appressed membranous sheaths, 
mouth pilose, margins pilosulose in the upper part of their length ; 
ligule short, hairy; blade long, linear, tapering above to a 
setiform apex, glabrous, plicate to convolute, ascendo-patent to 
suberect ; panicle immature, long, strict, dense, glabrous, rhachis 
slender, branches filiform in whorls of 7 or fewer, at present 
ascending, bearing in the upper part short 2- to 3-flowered 
branchlets; spikelets dark crimson, lanceolate and acute before 
opening, shortly stalked; barren glumes glabrous, lanceolate, 
acute, very unequal, the lower small, narrow, enerved, barely 
4 the length of the spikelet, the upper the length of the spikelet, 
l-nerved ; fertile glumes similar to, but slightly shorter and less 
sharply pointed than the large barren glumes, pale subequal and 
similar but elliptical with truncate apex ; lodicules cuneate with 
retuse apex ; anthers 3, yellowish, linear; styles bifid, glabrous, 
bearing a pair of large plumose stigmas. 
Culms over 3 ft. in height, the three lower internodes of the 
longest measuring 5, 5, and 9} in. respectively, the lowest 1 line 
across. Ligule less than 4 line long; blades reaching 1 foot 
in length, and 2 lines greatest width, those on the young leaf- 
shoots narrower. Panicle 9 in. long, } to } in. in diameter ; 
branches 2 in. or less; spikelets 14 to barely 2 lines long ; anthers 
1+ line, 
“Closely resembles the North-American S$. junceus Kunth in 
habit and characters of the spikelet; but is evidently a larger 
plant with stricter panicle. From the description apparently 
near §. Rehmanni Hack. (Transvaal), which resembles it in the 
characters of the spikelet but has lanceolate-linear leaves with a 
rounded base. 
Huriia.—In poor thicket-grown meadows in the Lopollo territory ; 
May 1860. No 2660. 
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