Entoplocanvia] XXVIII, GRAMINEAE, 229 
Lowest barren gl. 3-nerved, 2 lines long, second 5-nerved, 2? line ; 
the next pair intermediate in form between the former and the 
flowering glumes, 7-nerved, 23 lines long; fertile gls, 3 to 3} lines 
long, pale 2 to 3 lines ; anthers 2 lines long, : 
Near #. aristulata (Tetrachne aristulata Hack. & Rendle, 
recently separated as a distinct genus by Dr. Stapf), but a far 
less robust plant with denser many-flowered spikelets and less 
rigid glumes, 
MossaMEpES.—On sandy rocky hills near Quipola in the Mossamedes 
district ; June 1859. No. 2306. : 
Tring x. PAPPOPHOREZ. 
62, ENNEAPOGON Desv. ex Beauv. Agrost. p. 81 (1812). 
Pappophorwm Schreb., Benth, & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ili. p. 1174, 
pro parte. 
1, E. abyssinicum. 
Pappophorum abyssinicum Hochst. in Flora xxxviii. p. 202 
(1855); Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 869. 
AmMBRIz.—Nov. 1853. No. 2897. 
Loanpa.—A ceespitose annual with plane flaccid leaves, ascending 
branched culms 14 to 23 ft. high, and panicled silky-shining spikes. In 
sandy plains between Penedo and Conceicad ; Jan. 1859. No. 2916. 
Plentiful among stones on the roads right in the city of Loanda, 
growing with Boerhaavia and Amarantacez ; Dec. 1858. No. 7293. 
Palm groves on Loanda island, near Museque de Luiz Gomes, grow- 
ing in dense masses and covering wide areas ; April 1854. No. 7332. 
Dry stony heights near Cacuaco; Dec. 1853. No. 7343 (in part). 
Among herbage in palm groves by the river and on the banks of the 
river Bengo near Porto Rei ; Dec. 1853. Nos. 7332, 7448. 
. MossaMEDES.—Growing in crevices of rocks on the mountains 
le ame gneiss) near the mouth of the river Bero along with Pio 
’Oleo (Adina microcephala Hiern) ; 22 Aug. 1859. No. 2291. In 
coarse sand near the banks of the Bero from Quipola to Mata de 
Carpinteiros ; July, Aug. 1859. No. 2304. 
The plants show considerable variation in the actual and 
relative size of the barren glumes, which have 3 main nerves, the 
outer being imperfectly 4- to 6-nerved. The colour of the dense 
panicle varies from a pale lucent straw-colour to cinereous, and the 
length from 1 to 8 in. The leaves are flat and narrow-lnear, to 
22 lines broad at the base, tapering to a long acuminate setiform 
apex, or narrower becoming more or less convolute and setaceous, 
2. E. pusillum Rendle sp. nov. 
A minute acaulescent annual forming small tussocks about 
‘1 in. or less across, and 2 to 3 in. high, sparsely pubescent, leaves 
short, densely crowded, enveloping the small much reduced 
panicles ; outermost sheaths broad, markedly striate ; ligule a short 
row of hairs; blade convolute, setaceous, except in the outer- 
most leaves exceeding the sheath; panicle few-flowered, spikelets 
shortly stalked ; barren glumes membranous and hyaline except 
the green nerves, sparsely pilose, subcompressed, the outer 
elliptical-lanceolate, obtuse, sometimes minutely apiculate, incom- 
