170 COL. GRANT—BOTANY OF THE SPEKE AND GRANT EXPEDITION. 
lato, rubro-brunneo; caryopsi exserta, maxima, ovoidea, styli basi rigida anguste conica 
coronata, lævi, nitida, fuscescente v. grisea, basi perigynio crassiusculo undulato ciliolato 
arcte cincta. 
Hab. Madi, Jan. 1863 (Scleria no. 1, App. Speke's Journ. 654), Col. Grant ! 
[Grows 7 feet high in an erect dense mass by burn-side, Madi, January 1863, when the seeds are ripe 
and resemble diminutive acorns. Leaf-edges sharp as razors.—J. А. G.] 
Plate CXI. fig. 1. Male spikelet; fig. 2. Glume and stamens; fig. 3. Female spikelet ; 
fig. 4. Pistil and perigynium; fig. 5. Fruit. 
97. SCLERIA GLOMERULATA, Oliv., sp. nov. Semipedalis, glabrata v. parce pilosula ; 
radice fibrosa, fibrillis purpurascentibus; culmis pluribus fasciculatis, triangularibus fere 
glabris; foliis anguste linearibus, levibus; spica 13— poll. longa, spiculis pluribus 
masculis cum foemineis intermixtis, dense fasciculatis; bracteis setaceis, inferioribus 
spiculas superantibus ; squamis ovatis, acuminatis v. ovato-lanceolatis, dorso apicem versus 
laxe hirsuto-pilosis; earyopsi albida, obovoidea, obtuse trigona, breviter apiculata, trans- 
versim undulato- v. plicato-rugosa ; perigynio brevissimo, trigono, cupuliformi, persistente. 
Hob. Madi, Dec. 1862 (Seleria no. 8, App. Speke's Journ. 654), Col. Grant ! 
(А tufted plant, 6 inches high, with red-purple rootlets, found in the débris of Madi rocks or 
crevices (December 1862). Stem erect, three-cornered, hairy. Whole plant delicately and sweetly . 
sceuted. Seeds small, three-cornered, white, rough-surfaced, and milky.—J. А. G.] 
^ Plate CX. B. fig. 1. Spikelet; fig. 2. Pistillate and staminate flowers; fig. 3. Stamen ; 
fig. 4. Caryopsis. 
98. DIPLACRUM PYGMÆUM, Nees; Bæckel., in Linnæa, xxxviii. 434. 
Hab. Madi, Dec. 1862 (D. caricinum, App. Speke's Journ. 654), Col. Grant ! 
Å very pygmy form indeed. 
[An inch in height, bushy, and growing (December) in the light soil about Madi, 1862.— 
J. A; G.] 
GRAMINEZÆ. 
1. ORYZA SATIVA, L.; Kunth, Enum. РІ. i. 7; App. Speke's Journ. 651. 
An unawned variety. 
Hab. Zungomeno, 7° 27! 8. lat., Col Grant ! 
[Rice is cultivated by the natives near the coast and by traders, who have imported it as far as Un- 
yamezi; but it was never met with on the route north of this, and the want of it was severely felt.— 
Ae Oy] 
2. ERIOCHLOA, sp. near Z. annulata, Kunth, Enum. РІ. i. 73.— Helopus annulatus, 
App. Speke's Journ. 652. 
Hab. 5° 5 S. lat., alt. 3600 feet. 
[3 to 4 feet high, growing near water at lat. 5? 5/ S. Black stigmas.—J. A. G.] 
З. PANICUM BRAUNII, Steud. Syn. Gram. 93.—Tricholæna Jragilis, A. Braun, in Flora, 
841, 275. Tricholena no. 1, App. Speke's Journ. 659. | 
[3 feet high, here and there along the paths. Flowers rich pink, very handsome. Lat. 5° S., alt. ` 
2980 feet—J. А. G.J | 
4. PANICUM (Š BRACHIARIA, Trin.) BRIZANTHUM, Hoehst. ; Steud. Syn. Gram, 63. 
—Var. latifolium. Culmo decumbente, 3—4-pedali, striato ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis, 3-5 
poll. longis, 5-% poll. latis, margine cartilagineo setuloso-dentatis, sparsim pilosis glabra- 
