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tisve; vaginis pilis patentibus basi tuberculatis sparsim obsitis; racemis 4-5, alternis, 
secundis, 2-24 poll. longis, interstitiis longioribus; spiculis solitariis, ellipsoideis v. 
ovoideo-oblongis, 2-21 lin. longis; gluma inferiore late ovata, spiculam subam- 
plectente, obtusiuscula, concava, 9-nervosa, lineam longa, gluma secunda membranacea, 
late ovata, obtusiuscula, 7-nervosa, dorso pilosa. 
Hab. Unyoro, Nov. 1862 (Panicum no. 2; App. Speke's Journ. 652). Also in 
Abyssinia. 
[3 feet high, on Unyoro plateau, at 2? N. lat.—J. A. G.] 
Plate CXII. A. fig. 1. Spikelet; fig. 2. Same, detached, staminate flower exposed ; 
fig. 3. Pistil. j 
[2 to 23 feet high. Growing about corn-fields at 1° 40 S. lat., March 1862.—J. А. 6.) 
A grass, perhaps identical with the above, was gathered at Karagué, March 1862 (Pa- 
nicum no. 1, App. Speke's Journ. 652). 
5. PANICUM MAXIMUM, Jacq.; Steud. Syn. Gram. 72, var. hirsutissimum.—P. hirsu- 
tissimum, Steud. 4. с. 72. 
Hab. 57 S. lat., Col. Grant! (Panicum no. 5, App. Speke's Journ. 652.) 
Similar to (but much taller and with larger panicle) a specimen determined by Gen. Munro from | 
the Cape. 
[A very handsome large head of dark flowers ; two often growing from the same stem. Found abundant 
on the banks of the Kwaleh river, 5° S. lat., where it grows from 6 to 8 feet high.—J. А. G.] 
6. Panicum (DIGITARIA) SANGUINALE, L.; Kunth, Enum. Pl. i. 82; App. Speke's 
Journ. 652. 
Hab. Uganda, July 1862, Col. Grant! 
A very widely diffused grass in warm and tropical countries. 
[Branches a foot or two long and straggling. Found in July on the waste grounds of Uganda, 1862. 
—J. А. G.] 
7. PANICUM (DIGITARIA) MUTICUM, Forsk.; Kunth, Enum. Pl. і. 93.—Digitaria no. 2, 
App. Speke’s Journ. 652. | 
Hab. Karagué, March 1862, Col. Grant! ` Also in Abyssinia and Arabia. 
[Collected in flower during March at Karagué in 1862. А foot high, common, erect. The branches 
start immediately close to the roots, which creep along the ground. 118 said to be a remarkable grass 
for sweetness. Donkeys search eagerly for it, and eat of it greedily.—J. А. G.] 
8. PANICUM CRUS-GALLI, Linn.—Oplismenus Crus-gaili, Kunth, Enum. РІ. i. 148; 
App. Speke’s Journ. 652. 
Hab. Unyoro, August 1862, Col. Grant ! Common in tropical countries. 
[Grows 8 to 5 feet high in the Unyoro marshes, along with Mimosa asperata, Blumea, Hibiscus, 
Peucedanum, &c. Stem smooth in both directions. 1+ rests three or four feet on the ground, then shoots 
seven feet higher. Leaves 2 spans long and ? inch wide. The panicle is a rich cluster of seeds with 
purplish scales. Both edges of the lower parts of the leaves are jagged, but become at their extremities 
and on their surfaces like fine files. It is not a common plant; to be found in marshes, Sept. 1862. 
Small plants were observed to have their leaves barred across with zebra-markings at intervals of š inch, 
with pink edges.—J. А. G.] 
9. Panicum COLONUM, Linn.—-Oplismenus colonus, H., B., & K.; Kunth, Enum. 
Pl. i. 142; App. Speke's Journ. 652. 
