Eragrostis] XXVIIL GRAMINE.E. 239 
A delicate graceful plant 2 ft. high, internodes (except the 
flowering) 2 to 23 in, long, less than } line in diameter; cauline 
leaves scarcely reaching 6 in. long, greatest breadth a short 
distance from the base 14 line. Panicle 10 to 12 in. long, 
rhachis slender, curving, branches near the base of the largest 
reaching 4 in. long, becoming gradually shorter upwards, branches 
and branchlets widely curving, pulvinate; spikelets 2 lines or 
slightly less in length, reaching barely a line in breadth above 
the base, pedicels 3 to many times their length. Lower barren 
glume } to 3 line long, upper $ line ; fertile glume # line long ; 
anthers } line, grain } line. 
Is near H. patentissima Hack. (e descript.), which however 
has larger spikelets and much larger ovate-lanceolate acuminate 
flowering glumes. 
Hovu1_ita.—Rather damp abandoned fields near Lopollo ; April 1860. 
No. 2656. 
16. E. platyphylla Rendle sp. nov. 
An elegant sparsely cespitose annual; culms tall, erect, com- 
pressed, nodes brown, glabrous, the lowest geniculate, internodes 
4, glabrous, with an annular patch of glands below the node, 
the 2 lower much the shorter; sheath thinly membranous when 
dry, glabrous, striate, the lowest exceeding its internode, the 
upper increasingly shorter than the internode; ligule a short 
dense line of hairs; blade weak, glabrous, elongated, very 
narrowly linear-lanceolate, or linear tapering gradually to the 
setiform apex and more abruptly at the base, veins 7 to 9, white, 
subprominent below; panicle gracefully curving, pyramidal, 
branches in a whorl of 4 at the lower node, which alone is 
sparsely pilose, whorled and alternate above, gracefully spreading 
below, ascending to suberect above, bearing short lateral sub- 
appressed branches except for a short distance at the base; 
spikelets except the terminal shortly stalked, lanceolate to oblong- 
lanceolate, 6- to 8-flowered, a dull olive-green; barren glumes 
unequal, hyaline, reaching above the middle of the next flowering 
glumes, lanceolate, blunt or subacute, carinulate and scabridulous 
above the base; fertile glumes glabrous, ovate, blunt, imperfectly 
3-nerved, lateral nerves scarcely reaching the middle ; pale about 
8 the length of the glume, curved, apex broadly truncate, 
broken, keels well-marked, glabrous; grain red, ellipsoidal, 
asymmetrical at the hilum, laterally compressed, with a wide 
median dorsal groove. 
A graceful plant 3 ft. high; leaf-sheaths 2 to 5} in. long; 
leaves reaching nearly 1 ft. in length by 2 lines greatest width. 
Panicle 6 to 10 in. long by 32 to 5 in. across, lowest branches 
3 in. long, branchlets 3 in. or less; spikelets 2 to 2} lines by 
2 to 4 line, pedicels 1 line or less; barren glumes } and ¢ line 
respectively ; fertile glume ? line, pale % line ; anthers pale brown, 
barely 2 line; grain barely } line. 
Recalls Z. passa in characters of foliage and spikelet, but is 
