FLORA NIGRITIANA.- 557 
cule lanceolata, tenuia, venulis transversis subfenestrata, ligula 
brevi. Panicula longe pedunculata, ramis paucis gracilli- 
mis. Spice pedunculo filiformi sustensw, compresse, e spi- 
culis 6-12 regulariter distichis nec unilateralibus compositæ. 
Glume fere L. aspere, sed paullo longiores, tenuiores et 
magis compresse. —Sfaminum nonnisi reliquias vidi, quarum 
. duo tantum in quoque flore observavi. Semen jam maturum 
ovatum, compressum, fuscum, longitudinaliter striatum, 
l. Oryza sativa, Linn. (Rice.)—Generally cultivated in West 
Tropical Africa. Vogel’s specimens are of a bearded variety. 
The Maize, Zea Mays, Linn., is also much cultivated, but 
no specimens were gathered. 
1. Paspalum brevifolium, Fluegge—Kunth, Enum. 1. p. 48.— 
P. longiflorum, Retz ex N. ab E. in Herb. Wight, non 
Beauv.—Sierra Leone, Herb. Hooker; Mauritius and East 
India. : 
The leaves are wanting to these specimens, but they are 
otherwise perfectly similar to the common East Indian species 
distributed by Wight and Arnott under the number 1603, and 
by Wallich under that of 8752. 
2. Paspalum conjugatum, Berg.—Kunth, Enum. 1. p. 51.— 
Sierra Leone to the Quorra, and Fernando Po, Vogel ; St. 
Thomas, Don; Tropical Africa and Asia. 
3. Paspalum distichum, Burm.—Kunth, Enum. l. p. 52.— 
P. longiflorum. Beauv.—Sandy shores of the Nun, Vogel; 
St. Thomas, Don; Tropical Africa and Asia, (n. 8757 of 
Wallich's Catalogue.) 
There are no specimens of P. vaginatum, Sw., said to be 
found in Guinea, nor yet of the plant figured by Beauvois 
under that name, but which, judging from the figure, is very 
different from the common one. 
4. Paspalum scrobiculatum, Linn.— Kunth, Enum. 1. p. 53.— 
P. Kora, Beauv. FI. Ow. et Ben. t. 85, f. 2. (a reference 
overlooked by Kunth.)—Sierra Leone to the Quorra, Vogel ; 
St. Thomas, Don.—Tropical Africa, Asia and Australia. 
5, Paspalum dissectum, Linn.—Kunth, Enum. 1. p. 54, var. 
