254 XXVIII. GRAMINE. [Hragrostis 
Near £. cylindrispica, which it closely resembles in habit, but 
is a less robust plant with smaller less coriaceous spikelets and 
pales with much more narrowly winged keels. 
Punco ANDoNnGo.—In sparse-grassed rocky thickets between Catete 
and Luxillo; 28 April 1857. No. 2735. In rather damp sandy 
thickets near Luxillo ; April 1857. No. 2734. In sandy thickets near 
Cazella and on the banks of the river Lutete ; April 1857. No. 2818. 
40, E. guingensis Rendle sp. nov. 
Cespitose apparently perennial with a strong slender woody 
rhizome; culms tall slender, erect, terete, glabrous, springing 
from a tuft of slender erect convolute almost acicular sparsely 
scabridulous-hairy leaves, surrounded at the base by the withered 
sheaths; panicle elongated, strict, branches subdistantly alternate, 
erect, bearing the flattened ovate to elliptic-ovate purplish-green 
subsessile 8- to 11-flowered spikelets or reduced branchlets from a 
short distance from the base upwards, rhachis articulate between 
each flower; glumes spreading, the barren generally slightly 
shorter than the fertile, subequal, ovate-lanceolate, acute, keels 
scabridulous with strong apex, imperfectly 3-nerved, lateral 
nerves weak ; fertile glumes subcoriaceous, ovate-acute, lateral 
nerves well-marked in the lower half; pale slightly shorter, keels 
prominent, shortly scabridulous, back narrowly elliptical when 
flattened, apex truncate. 
Plants reaching about 2 ft. high; culms with 3 internodes, the 
lowest very short (3 in.), the median 2 in. or less, the uppermost 
very much elongated and bearing the inflorescence, the 2 lower 
enveloped by the narrow cylindrical sheaths, pilose at the mouth 
only ; ligule a very short hairy ridge, blades reaching 6 in. in 
length rarely exceeding } line in diameter. Panicles reaching 
15 in. long, by } to 1 in. broad ; lower branches 2} to 32 in. long ; 
spikelets } to 4 in. long by 2 to 2} lines broad; barren glumes 1} 
line long, fertile glumes 13 line; anthers purplish-brown 2 line. 
Near E. flavicans Welw. but distinguished by its narrow 
acicular leaves and longer strictly branched panicle. 
Puneo ANDONGO.—A strictly erect grass with the habit of Poa, 
2 ft. high, growing sparsely in rock-crannies at Pedras de Guinga ; 
Jan, and March 1857. Nos. 7407, 7414. No. 2865 (no notes). 
Var. egregia Rendle var. nov. 
Plants 3 to 4 ft. high, with flattened linear or convolute leaves 
over a foot in Jength and reaching 2 lines in breadth ; panicle 
immature, over 1} ft. long, resembling that of the type but on a 
larger scale. 
Perhaps a distinct species but the spikelets are insufficiently 
developed for description. 
Puneo ANDONGO.—A grass 3 to 4 ft. high, growing czespitosely in 
the rocks of Pedras de Guinga and near Calundo, which consist of 
sandy black very hot schist ; Jan. and March 1857. No. 2759. 
Specific determination is impossible in the case of the following 
numbers, as the inflorescence is immature. 
