234 XXVIII. GRAMINEAE. [Eragrostis 
Fl. Afr. Austr. p. 408 (1841); Steud., Zc. p. 272. Catabrosa 
micrantha Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. p. 426 (1851). 
Poa sporoboloides A. Rich., Le. 
Ampaca.—In damp sandy places between Ambaca and Zamba; 
17 Oct. 1856. No. 2745. 
Loanpa.—Very plentiful by dried-up ponds near Quiciixe (Represas. 
pequenas do Sr. Ricardo) and hitherto only found in that place ; July 
1854. No. 7291. 
GoLuNGo ALTO ?—No. 2970 (no information). 
HviLia.—By the stream (now almost dried up) of Mumpulla, but. 
growing very sparsely ; Oct. 1859. No. 2658. 
MosgsaMEDES.—In sandy places on the river Maiombo, growing with 
a species of Arundo, culm erect, 3 to 5 ft. high ; Oct. 1859. No. 2305. 
A rigidulous grass with chestnut-coloured spikes and culms somewhat. 
branched at the base. Rather rare in damp sandy places on the river 
Bero (named Bocca [mouth] or Garganta do Rio Bero), July 1859 ; 
and in swampy places on the river Caroca, Sept. 1859. No. 2599. An 
annual Aira-like grass rather rare about the lakes near 8. Joie de 
Caroca, Cabo Negro ; Sept. 1859. Cott. Carp. 1105. 
Sect. 2.—PTEROEssA. 
7. E. amabilis Wight & Arn. ex Nees in Hook. & Arn. Bot. 
Beech. Voy. p. 251 (1841); Steud, Zc, p. 265. 
E. unioloides Nees ex Steud., lc, p. 264; Durand & Schinz, 
lc, p. 891. 
Pungo ANDONGO.—An annual about a span high, laxly czspitose,. 
slender, elegant; culms filiform, ascending, spikelets somewhat 
flattened ; whitish, Briza-like. On the rocky sandy-clayey slopes of 
Pedras de Guinga, with species of Gladiolus ; March 1857. No. 2936. 
By sides of streams between Candumba and Muta Lucala but rare ; 
March 1857. No. 29360. ; 
8. E. stenophylla Hochst. ex Mig. Analect. Bot. Ind. ii. p. 27 
(1851); Steud., Zc, p. 266 (1854). 
Sierra LEONE.—Sept. 1853. No. 2945. 
Pungo AnponGo.—Plentiful in marshy sandy meadows between Can- 
dumba and Lombe ; March 1857. No. 2814. Nos. 2861, 2873 (no notes). 
9. E, Welwitschii Rendle sp. nov. 
A delicate cespitose annual; culms filiform, erect, branched, 
internodes 4 to 5, polished, glabrous, the lower short ; nodes slender, 
brown, glabrous ; leaves small, lower sheaths papery, compressed, 
carinulate exceeding the internode, the upper becoming cylindrical 
and increasingly shorter than the internode, glabrous except for a 
few hairs at the constricted mouth ; ligule a dense row of minute 
hairs ; blade narrow, tapering gradually from the base to the 
sharply acute apex, convolute, upper face sparsely pilose, lower 
and outer glabrous, striate, with prominent midrib; panicle ob- 
long, glabrous, branches solitary, short, capilliform, ascendo-patent, 
bearing from the base upward similar branchlets or stalked sub- 
patent spikelets, pedicels about as long as, or of the terminal, 
longer than the spikelets, the latter oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 
compressed, compact, purplish, 10- to 14-flowered; barren glumes 
