100 BOTANICAL RESULTS OF SIERRA LEONE COMMISSION. 
has an oval or oblong transverse section. The leaf-sheaths are 
sometimes sparsely hairy on the margins, and have a row ot 
circular gland-like structures on the back of the keel; the ligule 
is represented by a fringe of colourless hairs. The dried-up 
leaves are rolled from the margins. The lax panicle is 7-8 
inches long, in one specimen the filiform branches are spreading, 
in another older one they ascend. The distant ovate spikelets 
are 8-10-flowered, usually 10, 2 lines long, and have filiform 
pedicels 7 inch or more in length. The gland-like structures 
found on the keels and again on the back of the flowering glumes 
occur here and there on the branches of the panicle and on the 
pedicels, especially the latter. The two lower barren glumes are 
smaller than the fertile, and like these have pilose edges. The 
fertile glumes are ? of a line long, tinged with purple, and 
scabrid on the upper two-thirds of the keel, with one or a few of 
the peculiar “glands” near the obtuse apex. The prominently 
bicarinate palee remain for a short time after the fall of the 
glumes with their backs to the axis; they are about 7 line 
long. 
Near Regent, Dec. 10, Old Cemetery, Sierra Leone, no. 4114. 
RHYTACHNE ROTTBOELLIOIDES, Desv. 
E descript. in Ham. Prod. Fl. Ind. Oce. p. 12, et Hackelii in 
Boll. Soc. Broter. iii. (1884), p. 136, t. 2. fig. 2. 
Angola and Congo, fide Hackel in DC. Monog. Phan. vi. 275. 
Sierra Leone, Afzelius in Herb. Mus. Brit.! Alluvial plains, 
Port Lokko, April, Scott Elliot, no. 5787. 
