Volume 5

Catalogue of the African plants collected by Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch in 1853-61.

  • British Museum (Natural History) Department of Botany
Date:
1896-1901
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Catalogue of the African plants collected by Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch in 1853-61. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    -^4 XXVIII. GEAMiNEiE. [Daetyloctenium 53. DACTYLOCTENIUM Willd. Euum. PI Horfc Berol p 1029 (1809). ‘ ' 1 Eleusine Gaertn., Benth. & Hook. f. Gen P] iii p 1172 pro parte. ’ 1. D. segyptiacum Willd., l.c.; Steud. Syn. PI. Gram. p. 212 (1854); Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. p. 868 (cegyptivm). Sierra Leone.—Sept. 1853. No. 2939. Ambriz.—Nov. 1853. Nos. 2899, 28995. Luanda.—An annual casspitose remarkably social grass, forming very elegant meadows everywhere in rather damp places ; culms some- times prostrate but generally erect or oblique, branched, spikes 1- to 7- digitate, greenish-yellow. Plentiful on grassy thicket-grown slopes between Conceicao and Boa Vista ; Jan. 1859. No. 2911. Here and there in the Represa de Luiz Gomes ; March 1854. No. 7308. Nos 7329, 7476 (no notes). Pungo Andongo.—In meadows of the presidium ; Jan. 1857. No. 2705- In meadows near Quilanga; May 1857. No. 2837. No. 2846 (no notes). MoSSAMEDES.—1859. A fragment found with Eragrostis varieqatu. Welw. (No. 2300). 54. ELEUSINE Gaertn. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 1172, pro parte. 1. E. indica Gaertn. Fruct. p. 8 (1788); Steud. Syn. PI. Gram, p. 211 (1854); Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. p. 866. E. textilis Welw. in Murr. Journ. Trav. & Nat. Hist. i. p. 31 (1868), see also Apont. p. 541 (1859). Madeira.—Thinly grassed places in the island and even in the public squares in Funchal; Aug. 1853. No. 2919. Sierra Leone.—Sept. 1853. No. 2940. Ambriz.—Nov. 1853. No. 2892- Icolo e Bengo.—Short-grassed pastures between Quifandongo and Funda, in clayey-sandy places flooded in summer ; Dec. 1853. No. 7303. Loan da.—May and June 1858. No. 73395. No. 7340 (no notes). Golungo Alto.—The most plentiful grass in the district, known to the inhabitants as “ pe de galinha,” the most liked by cattle Qf all the grasses of the district; forms very green meadows everywhere in the rainy season. Rather damp pastures near Sange, Bango, etc. ; Dec. 1854. No. 2988. Plentiful in sunny grassy places through the whole district and very polymorphic. Between N-dele and Cacarambola ; Feb. 1855. No. 2989. No. 7221 (no notes). Pungo Andongo.—Plentiful in mountain meadows near Caghuy. No. 2769. Nos. 2841, 2856 (no notes). An annual (?) grass 2 to 4 ft. high, culms green when alive, a very shining golden-straw colour when dried. Local name, Balayas. Code. Carp. 1104. Cultivated form. E. coracana Gaertn., l.c.; Steud., l.c.; Durand & Schinz, l.c. E. coracana var. Welw. in Murr., l.c., p. 30. E. Luco Welw. Apont. p. 591. Golungo Alto.—Native name Lucu or Luco. An annual culti- vated everywhere for making an African beer (Garapa) from the seeds. Grown at the river Luinha by Sr. Pereira ; Sange, Jun. 1855. No. 2949. Pungo Andongo.—Indigenous in mountain meadows near Caghuy