250 XXVIII. GRAMINEZ. [ELragrostis 
1 line, upper 2 to 3 line; fertile gl. 3 line long by a good 3 line 
broad ; anthers a warm reddish-brown, } line long. 
Near the Sierra Leone £. Scotelliana Rendle, which closely 
resembles it in panicle and spikelet. The Huilla plant is however 
easily distinguished by its broader shorter flattened scabridu- 
lous hairy leaves, smaller, greenish-brown spikelets and markedly 
unequal barren glumes. 
Huritta.—In fields and among plantations of Zea Mays near 
Lopollo ; Jan. 1860; No. 2646. In short thicket-grown sandy 
pastures in the Humpata district ; April 1860. No. 7504. 
31. E. rejuvenescens Rendle sp. nov. 
A small plant; culms very slender, wiry, glabrous, springing 
from a dense bulbiform tuft formed by broad strongly membranous. 
striate persistent sheaths enveloping the new shoots, outer face of 
sheaths densely woolly ; ligule a short very dense row of hairs; 
blades of new leaves short, narrowly convolute, more or less 
faleate, rigid, pungent, glabrous; panicle, small, subeffuse, ovoid, 
or ellipsoid, rhachis, branches and pedicels glabrous, glandular ; 
branches short rigidulous, ascendo-patent bearing slender small 
branchlets or spikelets on subequal or slightly shorter pedicels ; 
spikelets 6- to 8-flowered, bluntly ovate; barren glumes large, 
subequal, reaching almost to the tip of the lower fertile glumes, 
lanceolate, blunt, l-nerved, subhyaline, glabrous ; fertile glumes. 
glabrous, ovate, blunt, concave, lateral nerves marginal; pale 
slightly shorter, back elliptical-oblong when flattened, truncate, 
keels glabrous, inflexed margins externally ciliate in the upper 
two-thirds; grain ellipsoidal, smooth, pale brown, hilum basilar. 
Plants 5 to 6} in. high ; root-fibres numerous, strong, } to 2 
line thick ; outer sheaths bearing the charred remains of leaves, 
about 1 in. long, } in, broad, the inner becoming shorter ; leaves 
7 to 14 lines long, barely } line in diameter. Flowering internode 
with panicle-3 to 5 in. long, panicle 12 to 14 lines long by 8 to 
11 lines across; branches } in. or less; spikelet 13 line long by 
a little over 1 line broad ; barren and flowering glumes barely 1 
line long; grain barely 3 line. 
Recalls the last species in the form of its spikelets, which how- 
ever differ in the glabrous glumes and ciliate pale. Its habit. 
is very distinct. 
Huiitua.—In short thicket-grown pastures, recently burnt, near: 
Mumpulla ; Oct, 1859. No. 2661. 
32. E, Chapellieri Nees Fl. Afr. Austr. p, 392 (1841); Steud.,. 
“e., p. 271; Durand & Schinz, J.c., p. 881. 
eal Nos. 7363, 73630, 7363c, 7863d. No. 7334 (no 
notes). 
PunGo ANDONGO,—In sandy wooded places near Sansamanda on the: 
banks of the Cuanza ; 1 May 1857. No. 7404. Calunda; Jan. 1857. 
No. 2750. No. 2904 (no notes). 
Hvitia.—Edges of fields near Humpata ; April 1860. No. 2695. 
