230 XXVIII, GRAMINEA, [Enneapogon 
pletely 5-nerved to about the middle, l-nerved to the tip, the 
inner slightly longer, lanceolate, 3-nerved nearly to the tip, with 
two intermediate nerves to about the middle, apex irregularly 
obtuse ; fertile glume cuneate-orbicular, densely ciliate on the back, 
sete slender, plumose to below the middle, longer than the glume 
proper ; pale bicarinate, keels and margin hairy in the upper two- 
thirds; gl. IV. short, truncate, with sete longer in proportion, 
pale very short ; gl. V. rudimentary. 
Sheaths about 4+ in. long, blades } in. Panicle } in. or less, 
with 6 or fewer fertile spikelets. GJ. I. 1} to 2 lines long, gl. IT. 
14 to 2% line, gl. IIT. 23 to 23 lines, scarcely 1 line without the 
sete, pale 1 line, gl. IV. 2 lines, less than 4 line without the sete. 
A very distinct little plant, recalling in habit #. brachystachyum 
(Jaub. & Spach), but differing in the much reduced hidden 
panicle, lanceolate barren glumes, etc. 
MossamMEpDEs.—A dwarf grass growing in cushions, fixed by its 
capillary roots in the hardened sand (trap), subglaucous. Dry sand- 
hills by the Atlantic near Giratl ; July 1859. Nos. 2281, 2883. 
3. E. benguellense Rendle sp. nov. 
A small apparently annual tufted minutely pubescent plant, 
culms geniculate, much branched, spreading and ascending; 
lower leaf-sheaths short, broad, loose, the uppermost narrower, 
lowermost leaf-blades obsolete, upper narrowly linear, tapering, 
acute; ligule reduced to a short row of hairs; panicle small, 
very dense, ellipsoidal to ovoid, spikelets shortly stalked, greenish ; 
barren glumes subequal, covering the fertile, membranous with 
conspicuous green nerves, compressed, elliptical when flattened, 
subobtuse, sparsely pilose, the lower 7- the upper 5-nerved ; fertile 
gl. densely covered with short white hairs, shortly obcuneate 
from a truncate base when opened, teeth subulate, glabrous, 
rather longer than the blade ; pale oblong, nerves ciliate; gl. IV. 
smaller, teeth more than twice the length of the glume, enclosing 
a ¢ flower, third floret represented by a small trifurcate rudiment. 
Plants 3 to 8 in. high; leaf-sheaths conspicuously striate, 
especially the lower, $ to 1 in. long; leaves to 12 in. long by 1 
line broad. Panicle $ to 1 in. long by 3 to 2 in, in diameter, 
spikelets 12 line long. Barren glumes 5- or 7-nerved to within a 
short distance of the 3-nerved apex, the lower 13 line long, the 
upper slightly shorter ; gl. III. including the teeth barely 14 line 
long, gl. IV. 1 line. 
A very distinct species, 
MossamEDEs.—Sandy places on the river Bero near Mata dos Car- 
pinteiros ; Aug. 1859. No. 2303. Sandy places on the banks of the 
eae even in the river, near Quipola ; past flowering. June 1860. 
0. : 
Z i ANTOSCHMIDTIA Steud. Syn. Pl. Gram. p. 199 (in note} 
(1854). 
Schmidtia Steud. in Schmidt Fl. Cap. Verd. Ins. p. 144 (1852) ; 
Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii, p. 1175. 
