OF THE SIERRA LEONE BOUNDARY COMMISSION, 99 
This is not very near any African Species; it is near the 
Indian C. Hasskarlii, C. B. Clarke, which has less acuminate 
spathes and much larger seeds. 
Between Kahreni and Port Lokko in Limba Country, April, 
no. 5749. 
GRAMINER. 
(By A. B. Rewpte, F.L.S.) 
PANICUM, sp. nov. 
Material insufficient for description, no. 5097. 
ARISTIDA DELICATULA, Hochst. No. 5332. 
AnpDRopogon (§ ScHIZACHYRIUM) MINIMUS, C. B. Clarke et 
Rendle, sp. nov. 
Herbula culmo tenui, gracillimo, decumbente vel suberecto, 
5—6-uncialis, ex omnibus fere nodis ramos floriferos procreans 
filiformes plures, iterum ramuloso ; laminis acutiusculis 4-6 lineis 
longis }-3 linea latis; racemis gracillimis; spiculis sessilibus 
oblongo-lanceolatis viridibus, gluma prima chartacea, bidenticu- 
lata, carina superne scabridula, secunda mutica obtusiuscula, 
carina scabridula. 
Dry open bare paths on augite, near Regent, Sierra Leone, 
Dec. 8-12, 1892, G. F. Scott Elliot, no. 4187 b. 
Has the appearance of a very small delicate form of the widely 
spread tropical A. brevifolius, Sw., but differs in the subacute 
narrower leaves, the obtuse character of the second glume, and 
the much less pronounced scabridity of the glumes. 
Eracrostis ScoretLiana, Rendle. 
Herba culmo simplici erecto tenui subcompresso sesquipedali, 
folioso vaginis glabris ore pilosis, carina glandulosa, ligula pilosa, 
laminis siccis linearibus apice attenuatis, subaristatis, margine 
convolutis ; panicule lax@ radiis sparsis patentibus vel ascenden- 
tibus, longis, filiformibus ; spiculis laxe pedicellatis ovatis, 8-10- 
floris ; radiis et pedicellis scabridis ; glumis sterilibus lanceolatia 
margine pilosis, dorso supra medium scabridis, florentibus ovatis 
obtusis purpurascentibus, trinerviis, margine pilosis, carina supra 
basin scabrida; paleis conspicue bicarinatis, carinis supra basin 
scabridis. . 
The slender smooth stem is a foot anda half in length, and 
