DAWEANE IN UGANDA LECT. 531 
30-37 cm. longum, 15-17 em. diametro. Drupe numerosissine 
(ultra 1000), 1 (rarius 2)-loculares, anguste pyramidato-cuneate, 
6 cm. longe, 6-8 mm. diametro, apicibus conicis liberis 6-8 mm. 
longis subeompressis interdum breviter rostratis stigmate 1 
(rarius 2) reniformi vel hippocrepiformi 1:5-2 mm. lato patente 
eoronatis; pericarpium laxe fibrosum; putamen osseum sub 
medio obtuse 5-6, angulatum utrinque subito contractum, basi 
breviter eonicum, apiee longe subulato-conieum (ad 1 em. longo), 
totum ad 2 cm. longum. 
Toro, by the Usonei and Durra Rivers, Dawe, 523; also in 
Unyoro, in river near Butiaba (according to Dawe). 
Dawe states that the habitus of this species resembles very 
much that of the Screw-pine figured in Sebimper's ‘ Plant 
Geography, p.389. He counted not less than 1845 drupes in 
one syncarpium. The Waganda name of the plant is “ Kisi- 
kenki." 
GRAMINE X. 
Panicum (8 Brachiaria) bifalcigerum, Stapf, sp. nov. ; affinis 
P. falcifero, Trin., sed racemis eum unoquoque culmo binis, 
spiculis glaberrimis majoribus acutis, valvis spiculas equantibus. 
Gramen perenne; rhizoma premorsum, breve; innovationes 
intravaginales. Culmi glabri, 3-nodi, e summa vagina longius- 
cule exserta. Foliorum vagine basales angustx, molliter 
hirsutæ, imprimis basin versus, demum a culmo solutæ et plicate, 
3-10 em. longs, pauca, extime 2 ad cataphylla brevia elaminata 
redacta; cauline similes sed angustiores, longiores prster 
nodos minus hirsutæ, summa ad 15 cm. longa. Racemi spici- 
formes 2, leviter falcatim curvati, internodio 3-4 cm. longo 
separati, densi, secundi, 2-seriati; rhachis herbacea, concava, 
applanata, 3 mm. lata, glabra, ad margines ciliolata. — Spzeule 
geminate, rarius hincinde solitarie vel ternate secundum 
costam rhachis facialem, brevissime pedicellate, lanceolato- 
ovate, acute, subacuminatæ, circiter 4 mm. longs, glabre. 
Glume quales, 7-nerves superne nervis brevibus nonnullis 
interjectis, nervis imprimis apicem versus admodum prominulis. 
Anthecium inferum d, glumas subequans; valva lanceolato- 
ovata, apice paulo incrassata, 5-nervis; palea valve equilonga, 
acute 2-carinata, acuta.  Anthecium superum  $ oblongo- 
ellipsoideum, obtusum, 3'5 mm. longum, leve; valva 5-nervis. 
