232 XXVIII. GRAMINEE. [| Homalocenchrus 
A lax but very widely cxspitose grass common in marshy wooded 
places between Condo and Quisonde ; March 1857. No. 2834. A grass 
3 ft. and higher, with graceful creeping culms, the flowering ones 
ascending. Grows sparingly in grassy swamps between Condo and 
Quisonde ; middle of March 1857. No. 7394. 
Trise xu. HLRAGROSTE LZ. 
66. POGONARTHRIA Stapf in Fl. Capens. vii. p. 316 (1898). 
1. P. falcata. 
Leptochloa falcata Hack. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iii. p. 386 (1895). 
Loanpa.—Generally an annual, densely cxspitose, culms erect 14 or 
2 ft. high, spikes and spikelets remarkably stiff. Plentiful in sandy 
plains throughout the whole district. Museque de Luiz Gomes ; May 
1858. No. 7287. 1853-4. No. 7367. 
Barra Do BENGo.—An annual erect widely cespitose rigid grass. 
In thicket-grown sandy somewhat wooded places between Quicuxe and 
Cacuaco ; end of May 1858. No. 7287). 
Pungo ANDoNGO.—Plentiful in sandy soil on the road-sides between 
Lombe and Quibinda, in dry and rather damp places ; March 1857. 
No. 7408. 
Hvitia.—In sandy thickets on the edges of woods between Lopollo 
and Monino ; end of March 1860. No. 7487. 
67. ERAGROSTIS Beauv.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 
p. 1186. 
Sect. 1.—Carac.astos. 
1, E. aspera Nees Fl. Afr. Austr. p. 408 (1841) ; Steud. Syn. Pl. 
Gram. p. 272 (1854); Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 879. 
GoLuNGo ALTO.—A very elegant erect grass, 1 to 23 ft. high, with 
tremulous spikelets sometimes green sometimes a beautiful violet 
colour. In rich soil interspersed with sand in places once cultivated 
by the banks of the river Cuango near Sange ; June and beginning of 
July 1855. No. 7245. 
Punco ANDONGO ?—Nos. 28575, 2862 (no information). 
HuiLia.—Plentiful in fields after cultivation of maize and Sorghum, 
in the Lopollo district ; April 1860. No. '7494. 
2, E. ciliaris Link Hort. Berol. i. p. 192 (1827); Benth. in 
Hook. Niger Fl. p. 567 (1849); Steud., 2c, p. 265; Durand & 
Schinz, ic., p. 881. 
Loanpa.—Quinta de Luiz Gomes ; May 1854. No. 7460 (in part). 
Nos. 7461-3, 7465 (no notes). Near S. Pedro and on the way thence 
to Maianga do Povo ; beginning and middle of Jan. 1858. No. 7466. 
1853-4. Nos. 7373 (in part), 7374. 
Go.Lunco ALTO.—No. 7260 (no notes), 
Puneo ANDoNGO.—Candumba ; Jan. 1857. No. 2703. 
3. E. caniflora Rendle sp. nov. 
Annual, cxspitose, culms and leaf-shoots surrounded at the base 
by membranous withering leaf-sheaths, culms a foot or less in 
height enveloped to within a short distance of the panicle by the 
sheaths which are subcompressed, stramineous, glabrous ; ligule a 
