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1"* membranacea, ovato-lanceolata, subobtusa, bicarinata, margine inflexa, venis 4 
convergentibus, purpurea, marginibus, apice, et carinis pilis fulvis obtectis; 
2" hyalina, late lanceolata, acutiuscula, bicarinata, venis 3 convergentibus, mar- 
ginibus inflexis et carinis supra basin pilis fulvis ciliatis; 3* hyalina, lanceolata, 
subacuta, enervia, margine inflexa, supra medium ciliata; 4% quam 3% duplo 
breviore, hyalina, subtrapezoidea, apice incisa, enervia, ciliata. 
The culms are 14-17 inches long, with three nodes, the uppermost naked for 2} inches 
below the panicle; the lowest sheath on the culm is glabrous, the upper two are pubes- 
cent, those of the innovations glabrous; the blades convolute, appearing acicular or 
subulate, and covered with a silky pubescence; the lowest on the culm is 3 in. long, 
the upper two about 1 in. and 3 in. respectively, on the innovations 4-7 in. long; they 
are 3 line in diameter when rolled. The panicle is small, oval, dense, and but little 
branched, 13-2 in. long by 6-8 lines broad; the colour is tawny, tinged with wine- 
red. The sessile spikelets are 3 lines long by 1 broad, with an involucre of stiff tawny 
hairs about half the length of the outermost glume; the stalked spikelets are 24 lines 
long, with a denser, longer, and more spreading involucre, slightly shorter than, or nearly 
equal to, the spikelet. The outermost glume is 3 lines long by 1 broad, with two stronger 
lateral veins parallel with the keels and two central ones which anastomose, one or both 
falling short of the apex; the inflexed margins, the apex, and the upper portion of 
the two keels bear tawny hairs, the rest of the surface being glabrous; the colour is 
wine-red. The second glume is nearly 3 lines long by 3 line wide, with a midrib and 
two lateral veins; the upper % of the keels and the infolded margin almost from the base 
bear tawny hairs; the third glume is nearly 23 lines long, veinless; the upper 3 of the 
inflexed margin and the upper half of the surface is hairy, but the hairs are shorter 
and less coloured than in the last; two rows of hairs in the lower portion recall the 
keels of the outer glumes; the fourth is about half the length of the third, is ciliated, 
and has a cut subtruncate apex. 
Hab. Milanji, Oct. (no. 8); Nyasa-land, 1891 (Buchanan, no. 997). 
Allied to the Cape and West Tropical-African species S. Munroanum, Hack., but easily 
distinguished by the smaller inflorescence, the reddish and membranous (not coriaceous) 
glumes of the sessile floret, and the shorter paler tufts of hair. 
HARPECHLOA ALTERA, Rendle, sp. n. (Plate X. figs. 7-12.) Perennis, ceespitosa, 
rhizomate duro; culmis tenuibus, foliosis, vaginis fere obtectis, qua nudi pubes- 
centibus, erectis, complanatis, flexuosis, quam folia brevioribus; vaginis longis, 
levibus, plicatis, carinatis; ligula brevi, pilosa; lamina lineari, glabra, striata, 
flexuosa, plieata, valde carinata, margine involuta, apice pungente; spica unilaterali 
vel disticha, faleata; gluma 1™ membranacea, complanata, scaphoidea, acutiuscula, 
uninervia; 2?* precedenti simili, sed breviore; 3" florifera, brevissime pedicellata, 
complanata, lanceolata, apice bifida, carina valida marginibusque dense ciliatis ; 
palea inclusa, hyalina, profunde bicarinata; glumis duabus superioribus minoribus, 
sterilibus, truncatis, apice emarginatis. 
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