256 XXVIII. GRAMINEA, [Olyra 
Benth., lc. O. paniculata Sw. Observ. p. 347 (1791); Steud. Syn. 
Pl. Gram. p. 35 (1854). 
Prince’s IsLanp.—Pico de Papagaio at about 1200 ft. ; Sept. 1853. 
No. 29320. 
SrerrA LEonE.—Sept. 1853. No. 2938. ; 
Go.tunco ALTo.—A high climbing grass, 12-15 spans and more, with 
a hollow culm, marked in its lower part with dark purple transverse 
rings. Everywhere by streams in dense thickets on the slopes of the 
mountains of Alta Queta; in fr. 31 Dec. 1854. No. 2998. A fine 
grass, climbing widely among thickets ; anthers purple very caducous. 
In thick damp woods, by streams, Queta mountains; in fl. March 
1856. No. 7236. No. 7175 (no information). 
73, LEPTASPIS R. Br.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. p. 1110. 
1. L. cochleata Thw. Enum. Pl. Zeyl. p. 357 (1864). 
L. conchifera Hack. in Bolet. Soc. Broter. v. p. 211. t. e. fig. A. 
(1887); Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 788, 
Is.anp or Sr. THomas.—In very shady places with Marattia on 
Mt. Caffé ; Dec. 1860. No. 2887. 
Prince's IsLanp.—In the dried up bed of streams on the higher 
parts of Pico de Papagaio, but rather rare ; Sept. 1853. No. 2925. 
GoLunco ALtTo.—A grass 3 to 4 ft. high, almost a shrub, with bug- 
like violet-purple spikelets. Leaves papery, dry, hard. In very thick 
and primeval forest by streamlets dried up in summer on the 
mountains of Alto Queta; Dec. 1854. No. 2997. No. 7218 (no in- 
formation ). 
74, PHYLLORACHIS Trimen ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 
p. 1108. 
1. P. sagittata Trimen in Journ. Bot. xvii. p. 353, ¢. 205 (1879) ; 
Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 787. 
Punco ANnpDOoNGO.—Sandy woods on the larger island of Calemba, 
river Cuanza; March 1857. No. 7399. 
TripE xvi. BAMBUSE.L. 
75. OXYTENANTHERA Munro; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. 
Pl, iii, p. 1211. 
1, 0. abyssinica Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. p. 127 
(1868); Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 945. 
Bambusa abyssinica A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. p. 439 (1851) ; 
Steud. Syn. Pl. Gram. p. 330 (1854). 
Punco ANDONGO.—Culms unarmed, 25 to 30, more rarely 40 or 
50 ft. high, gregarious, glaucous-pruinose, 1} to 3 in. in diameter at 
the base. Rather plentiful near rivers in the primitive woods 
between Pungo Andongo and Candumba, near Mangue, Mutollo, 
Candumba, etc. In immature fr. end of Mar. 1857. No. 1134. The 
tops of a flowering culm 22 ft. high, leafless, and clothed only with 
very large coriaceous broadly mucronate sheaths. In dense woods on 
the river Quiambungo; end of March 1857. No. 2803. In woods 
near Candumba ; March 1857. Cony. Carp. 1109. See also Welw. 
Synops. Explic. p. 38 (1862). 
