Evagrostis| XXVIII. GRAMINEA, 235 
reaching to within 3 of the top of the lowest fertile glume, Ianceo 
late, acute, keels scabridulous, the lower slightly shorter; fertile 
glume elliptical-ovate, acute, 3-nerved, purplish-green, glabrous; 
pale persistent perceptibly shorter, keels strong, ciliolate; grain 
reddish-brown, globose, smooth, with darker small subbasilar hilum. 
Plants 14 to 15 in. high ; internodes 1 to 3 line thick, 1 to 
2} in. long, not including the elongated flowering one which with 
the panicle may reach 10 in. long. Leaf-sheaths from a little 
over 3 to 1} in.; blade 1 to 14 in. long, barely reaching 1 line in 
width at the base when flattened. Panicle 2} to 4 in. long by 4 
to $ in. in diameter, lower branches 3 to 14 in. long, becoming 
shorter upwards ; spikelets 2 to 23 lines long by 1 line or nearly 
1 line broad ; lower barren gl. to 3 line, upper 2 to 2 line; 
fertile gl. 3 line; anthers withered, 3 (?) line long; grain } line. 
Near #. stenophylla Hochst. but a more delicate plant, dis- 
tinguished by its smaller oblong panicles, more compressed 
spikelets, and acute glumes. 
Pungo ANDONGO ?—No. 2961 (no information). 
10. E. procerior Rendle sp. nov. 
Perennial, sparsely cespitose, culms tall, erect from an oblique 
base, simple or branched, internodes 4, strong, subterete, glabrous, 
the lowest short, and enveloped by the dry sheaths, the upper 
successively longer and exceeding the sheaths; nodes conspicuous, 
glabrous ; sheaths at base of culm and on leaf-shoots scabridu- 
lously pilose, especially at the mouth, cauline sheaths glabrous 
except for a few hairs at the mouth; ligule a very short densely 
hairy ridge ; blade rigidulous, convolute, narrowly linear, tapering 
to a setiform apex, scabridulously pilose, especially when young; 
panicle large, ellipsoidal, diffuse, much branched, branches more 
or less aggregated in the lower part but not verticillate, becoming 
irregularly scattered above, slender, flexuosely spreading, branched 
from the base; spikelets on pedicels which in the terminal may 
exceed, but in the lateral are generally shorter than the spikelet, 
the latter broadly linear to linear-lanceolate, fuscous-green, 6- to 
14-flowered ; barren glumes large, subhyaline, reaching within 
about 4 of the tip of the lowest fertile glume, keels minutely 
scabridulous, the lower smaller by about 4, oblong-lanceolate, 
blunt, the upper ovate, blunt to subacute; fertile glumes broadly 
elliptic-ovate, blunt, pale scarcely shorter, keels not strong, 
minutely scabridulous above the middle, obovate when flat with 
truncate apex; grain smooth, subcompressed, ellipsoidal, shallowly 
excavated at the hilum, with a broad median dorsal furrow, 
brown, hilum dark brown. 
Plants 3 to 6 ft. high ; root-fibres thick, densely hairy ; lowest 
internode of culm 14 to 12 in. long, by about 1 line wide ; leaf- 
blades on the leafy shoots reaching 1 ft. in length, } line or less 
in diameter in their natural convolute state, those of the flowering 
culm shorter. Panicle 1 ft. long by 5 to 7} in. in diameter, 
branches scabridulous, 43 in. long and less; branchlets an 
