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thin soil near Catete at the Washerwomen’s Spring; Feb. 1857. 
No. 2737. On rocky hills ; Jan. 1857. No. 2771. 
_ Mossamepes.—In sandy soil in the bed of the river Bero, which 
is almost entirely dried up in winter; July and August 1859. 
No. 2301 (in part). 
Var. viscosa Rendle var, nov. 
Panicle more rigid and robust, rhachis scabrid and pubescent, 
and like the branches glandular and viscid. 
_ MossaMEDEs.—In sandy soil in the bed of the river Bero, almost dry 
in the winter season ; June and August 1859. No. 2301 (in part). 
Var. speciosa Rendle var. nov. 
A much finer plant than the type, 2 to 3 ft. high, culms 
stronger with 5 to 6 internodes, leaves flat, 2 to 4 in. long by 12 
to 2 lines broad ; panicle obtuse, ellipsoidal, 6 to 10 in. long by 
2 to 3 in, across; spikelets 3 lines long, 8- to 13-flowered 
(generally about 10-flowered). 
io Anponco.—In damp meadows. No. 2772. No. 2969 (no 
notes). 
Huitia.—Heights of Nene ; and everywhere in fields, and rather 
damp and dry meadows, also on the sandy banks of streams round 
Lopollo; April and May 1860. No. 7486. 
18. E. beroensis Rendle sp. nov. 
Apparently annual, culms rather slender, branched, internodes 6, 
terete, glabrous, sometimes with a glandular ring below the sub- 
conspicuous glabrous brown nodes ; leaf-sheaths subcompressed 
and carinate especially in the upper part, sparsely glandular- 
punctate, especially on the midrib, mouth sparsely pilose ; ligule 
a short dense row of hairs; blades flat, linear-tapering, apex seti- 
form; panicle pyramidal lax, branches whorled, becoming scattered 
above, weakly spreading, bare for about } the distance from the 
base, branchlets short, weak, ascending; spikelets glabrous, linear, 
shortly-stalked, greyish-green, 9- to 12-flowered ; barren glumes 
thin, membranous, acute, inconspicuously l-nerved, the lower 
lanceolate, the upper ovate-lanceolate and slightly longer ; fertile 
glumes ovate to ellipsoid-ovate, apex rounded, 3-nerved, lateral 
nerves curved, imperfect, pale subequal, rather narrow, slightly 
curved, keels glabrous; grain ellipsoidal, pale with a dark hilum. 
Culms 13 ft. or more long, sheaths 1 to 2} in. long, in the fully 
developed culm shorter than the internodes ; ligule less than 
i line long; leaves 4 to 5 in. long by 1 line or a little more in 
greatest breadth, scabridulous, veins 4 to 5, prominent on under 
face. Panicle 7 in. long by 5 in. greatest diameter; branches in 
whorls of 3 to 4, or upper ones opposite, or solitary, lower about 
3 in. long, becoming shorter above, nodes sparsely pilose ; 
branchlets about 1 in. or less. Spikelets 23 to 4 lines long, 
lower barren gl. barely 1 line, upper a good line; fertile gl. 
4 line; anthers a little over } line; grain 2 line long. 
Near £. agrostoidea, but distinguished by its laxer habit, larger 
laxer panicle, longer spikelets, and larger longer grain. 
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