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membranous line; blade flat, narrowly linear-lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, pilose on both faces, suberect ; panicle small, dense, oblong, 
nodes pilose, branches ascendo-patent, branched from the base 
upwards ; spikelets dark purple, small, 3-flowered, covered with 
white hairs, subcompressed, ovate, pedicels generally longer than 
the spikelet, slender, purplish, glandular a little below the spikelet ; 
rhachis jointed below each flower; barren glumes large, reaching 
above the middle of the spikelet, subequal, lanceolate, acute, 
l1-nerved ; fertile glumes membranous, elliptical, apex truncate, 
broken and ciliate, lateral nerves complete ; pale slightly shorter, 
the inflexed margins and upper portion of back ciliate, keels well- 
marked, minutely scabridulous in the upper half, back elliptical 
when flattened, apex truncate and densely ciliate ; stamens 3. 
The plants, all of which are young, are | ft. or less in height, 
with the internodes (7 in number) covered with the overlapping 
sheaths ; the leaf-blades reach 3 in. in length by barely 2 lines in 
width. Panicle 2 in. long by 2 in. in diameter, branches ? in. or 
less; spikelets scarcely exceeding | line in length, slightly less in 
breadth. Barren glumes about 1 line long, fertile glumes scarcely 
1 line, anthers a good } line. ; 
Near £. hispida K. Schum., which however differs in its longer 
narrower leaves, more diffuse dull green panicle with larger 
spikelets, and the long-ciliate scabrid keels of the pales. 
HvILia.—Wet pastures by the river Monino ; April1860. No. 2698. 
4, E. annulata Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1891, p. 72. 
Var. major Rendle var. nov. 
Differs from the type in its broader oblong-lanceolate to ovate 
spikelets, which are also generally more shortly stalked and only 
occasionally show the characteristic annular gland. Spikelets 
2 to 4 lines long by about 1} line broad. 
MossaMEDEs.—In sandy places on the banks of the river Bero, near 
Cavalheiros ; July and Aug. 1859. No. 2298. 
5. E. tenella Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult. Syst. ii. p. 576 (1817). 
Var. viscosa Stapf in Fl. Brit. Ind. vii. p. 315 (1896). 
E. viscosa Trin. in Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Petersb. Ser. 6. i. p. 397 
(1830) ; Steud., Je. p. 265; Durand & Schinz, lc, p. 891. £. 
retinorrhea Steud., /.c., p. 268. 
Punco ANDonGo.—A beautiful grass, annual, erect, sparsely branched, 
spikelets purplish. Here and there in sandy thickets between Bumba 
and Condo ; March 1857. No. 7415. No. 2877 (no notes). ’ 
Hurira.—In places .once cultivated and in fields behind maize 
plantations near Lopollo ; May 1860. No. 2697. 
Var. compacta Stapf ined. 
Loanpa.—No. 7478. A monstrous form. 
Hvuitia.—Plentiful in fields where Zea Jays is cultivated, near 
Lopollo and Nene ; May 1860. No. 2635. 
6. E, interrupta Beauv. Agrost. p. 162 (1812). 
Var. namaquensis Durand & Schinz, d.c., p. 884. 
E. namaquensis Nees ex Schrad, in Linnea xii. p. 452 (1838), 
