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than the spikelets, the latter a slatey blue, compressed, lanceolate, 
5- to 6-flowered ; barren glumes long, lanceolate, acute, 1-nerved, 
glabrous, keel minutely scabridulous, the lower a little shorter 
and less acute ; fertile glumes ovate-lanceolate, subobtuse, lateral 
nerves strong, scabridulous-pilose, keel minutely scabridulous ; pale: 
a little shorter, elliptical, blunt, keels scabridulous-pilose. 
An elegant plant with a Poa-like habit. Culms young, with 
the panicle not yet fully expanded, 11 to 12 ft. high, a little over 
a line in thickness at the base, the lowest internode completely 
hidden by several basal sheaths, less than 1 in. long, the second 
3 or more in. long; leaf-blades reaching 51 in. long by 2 lines 
broad at the base. Panicle not fully developed, 7 in. long by 13 
greatest width, lower branches 2 to 3 in. long, the upper becoming 
shorter; spikelets barely 3 lines long by 2 line broad; lower 
barren glume 1 line long, the upper 14 to 12 line, about equal 
in length to the lowest fertile glume; anthers 2 line long; grain 
not yet developed. 
A distinct species characterised by its Poa-like inflorescence, 
hairy rhachis and spikelets, and long acute barren glumes. 
Hv1L_a.—In wooded meadows near Lopollo; Jan. 1860. No. 2631. 
27. E. fascicularis Trin. in Mém, Acad. Imp. Sci. Pétersb. ser. 6. 
i. p. 403 (1830) (e descript.); Steud., 2c, p. 270; Durand & 
Schinz, Z.c., p. 883. 
2. benguelensis Wawr. & Peyr. in Sitzungsber. Math.-Nat. 
Cl. Acad. Wiss. Wien. xxxviii. p. 583 (1859), (Sertum benguelense, 
p. 43 [1860]); Durand & Schinz, 1c, p. 880. Poa fascicularis 
Kunth Enum, i. p. 339 (1833). 
AMBRIZ.—In sunny sandy places, even the most sterile, near Ponta 
d’Ambriz in West Congo, remarkably social; Nov. 1853. No. 2893. 
Native name, Sangalala. 
Barra po DanpE.—A perennial grass 3: to 6 ft. high, culms de- 
cumbent with erect fascicles of branchlets, or densely czspitose and 
erect, 4 to 5 or even 6 ft. high, fasciculately branched at the apex, 
culms and branches polished, very tough. Spikelets greenish, culms 
and sheaths viscous and resinous at the base. Very plentiful all along 
the shore from Loanda to Ambriz, especially in sandy, sparsely herb- 
grown places ; very plentiful in the dry palm-groves of Praia de 
S. Thiago to the south of the river Dande ; Sept. 1858. No. 7312. 
Native name, Sangalala. 
Loanpa.—Culms becoming spirally twisted or bent with age. 
Ubiquitous and very plentiful and remarkably social in poor sandy soil, 
etc., throughout the whole province of Loanda. Alto das Cruzes, 
May 1854. No. 7473. Called by the Portuguese and negroes, 
Sangalals. Exceedingly dangerous to sportsmen on account of its 
twine-like runners. Used in lime-burning, since on account of its 
great elasticity it serves as layers between the Mubanga-layers of 
the kiln. (Mubanga or Mubango is Acacia Welwitschii Oliv. ; see 
ante, vol. i., p. 310.) Seen in January 1858 at the Museque Lopes, 
Tha da Loanda. Nos. 7366, 73668, etc. . 
MossaMEDES.—Sandy maritime places but much rarer than in 
Loanda. Near the gardens, July 1859. No. 2297. Called by the 
inhabitants Sangalala. 
