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narrow, and 2 in, or less in length. Inflorescence 73 in. long, + in. 
or less in length, containing 3 to 5 spikelets 3 to 52 lines long 
by 13 to 12 broad; barren glumes 1 and 11 line respectively ; 
fertile glumes scarcely 13 line long by # line broad, pale 14 line 
by 2 broad when flattened ; anthers barely 3 line. 
Near some of the larger spikeleted forms of 2. elongata Jacq., 
but distinguished by its cuspidate flowering glumes, and especially 
the large broadly elliptical pale with broad keels and broad 
inflexed margins. It also resembles, especially in the habit of the 
inflorescence, the Abyssinian Z. longifolia Hochst., but is a much 
larger plant ; the pale of HZ. longifolia moreover is larger, witl: 
the keels falling conspicuously short of the scarious apex. The 
Brazilian £. rufescens Nees differs in habit and in its much 
smaller pale. 
Hvi1a.—Plentiful on the highest ridges of the loftiest rocks of the 
presidium ; Dec. 1856. No. 2755. 
13. E. major Host Gram. Austr. iv. p. 14, t. 24 (1809). 
E. megastachya Link Hort. Berol. i. p. 187 (1827). #. poceoides 
Trin. in Mém. Acad. Petersb. Ser. 6. i. p. 404 (1830); Steud., Zc., 
p. 263. H. multiflora Asch. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl, Aithiop. 
pp. 299 and 310; Durand & Schinz, Lc., p. 885. 
Loanpa,—An annual with sparsely cespitose ascending culms 1 to 
2 ft. high ; spikelets greenish-white. Plentiful in sandy herb-grown 
places between Maianga do Povo and Imbondeiro dos Lobos, April 
1854 and beginning of June 1858. No. 7316. On small hills above 
Loanda, sporadic on the sandy banks of the river ; very polymorphic ; 
beginning of Dec. 1857. No. 7333. 
GoL.unco ALTo.—A polymorphic species, probably described by 
different authors under different names, In rather dry sunny places 
and among cultivated herbs near Sange and Trombeta ; Dec. 1854. 
No. 7177. In dry poor soil near Camilongo ; July 1855. No. 7272- 
No. 7253 (no notes). 
Punco ANDoNGO.—No. 2875 (no notes). 
Hvitia.—In thicket-grown sandy pastures at Lake Ivantala ; Feb. 
1860. No. 2647. On low hills by streams near Humpata ; May 1860. 
No. 7522. 
MossaMEpDES.—In rather damp sandy places in the almost dry bed 
of the river Bero or Rio das Mortes near Mata do Carpinteiros, but 
only here and there ; 22 Aug. 1859. No. 2299. 
14. E. Hierniana Rendle sp. nov. 
Perennial by a strong slender rhizome, cespitose, culms simple 
or branched, tall, stout, stramineous, with 5 terete glabrous. 
internodes, nodes glabrous; leaf-sheaths, except the lowest and 
highest, about half the length of the internode, loose, glabrous ;. 
ligule a very short row of hairs; blade erect, rigidulous, glabrous, 
linear-tapering froma broader base, more or less convolute, 
acute; panicle large, much branched, diffuse, broadly obovoid, 
glabrous, branches alternate, the lower distant and spreading at 
about 45°, the upper less regular, branchlets filiform ; spikelets 
long- or short-stalked, compressed, large, many-flowered, linear- 
