176 COL. GRANT—BOTANY ОЕ THE SPEKE AND GRANT EXPEDITION. 
tab. 23. Pallide viridis v. glaucescens ; * culmis immersis, longissimis, crassis, cellulosis, 
radiculas capillaceas emittentibus, emersis 3—4-pedalibus, vaginis laxis compressiusculis 
tectis;" foliis linearibus acuminatis, pagina superiore marginibusque antrorsum sca- 
bridis, spicis terminalibus 2-4-6.—App. Speke's Journ. 652.—Jschemum cuspidatum, 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 324. 
Spice 3-1 ped. longe. Gluma inferior, cum arista rigida antrorsum setulosa, 2-1 poll. longa, superior 
brevior apiculata. 
Hab. Unyoro, Nov. 1862, Col. Grant! Occurs also in Zambesi-land and India. 
[Found ripe in the still back-waters of the Nile at Unyoro, November 1862.—J. A. G.] 
Plate CXVI. Fig. 1. Lower spikelet; fig. 2. Upper spikelet; fig. 3. Hermaphrodite 
floret ; fig. 4. Pistil. 
95. PEROTIS LATIFOLIA, Ait.; Kunth, Enum. РІ. i. 470; App. Speke's Journ. 651. 
Hab. Uganda, July 1862, Col. Grant ! | 
[Grows 3 feet high, the leaves and branches crowded together, in the plantain-groves of Uganda. In 
flower during July. Leaves a dull deep green colour, fringed with hooked hairs, and the awns rich 
purple.— J. А. 6.1 
36. PoGoNATHERUM ?, sp., App. Speke’s Journ. 652. Not determinable in the absence 
of inflorescence. | 
Hab. Unyoro, Aug. 1862. “This, or a variety, grows submerged in а perfect net- 
work, which supports a man or water-boc as they plunge through it."— Col. Grant ! 
37. ANTHISTIRIA, sp. ? (Stipa, nov. Sp. App. Speke's Journ. 653). Panicle in facies 
nearly resembling 4. Barteri, Munro, MSS. in hb. Kew (Androscepia Barteri, Anderss.). 
(This is the jungle-grass in lat. 3° 10’ N., where, in December 1862, it was nearly 3 feet high.— 
У. А. 6.1 
88. ANTHISTIRIA CILIATA, L.; Kunth, Enum. PI. i. 481; App. Speke's Journ. 652. 
Hab. 5° 5 S. lat., alt. 3600 feet, Col. Grant ! А common grass of Africa and tropical 
Asia. 
[30 inches in height, growing under trees in rich low ground, very healthy and luxuriant. Тһе 
natives collect its grain as food when there is a famine. Lat. 5? 5! S. IA. KL 
39. ANTHISTIRIA CILIATA, L., var. imberbis (Retz., Kunth, Z. ¢.); App. Speke's Journ. 
652. 
Hab. Karagué, Dec. 1861, Col. Grant! 
[This grass, averaging 2-21 feet, waves like corn-fields, completely clothing the smooth-surfaced 
treeless summits of hills in Karagué, alt. 5000-5400 feet. Cattle will pass it and not 
they will not graze upon it, but run down hill to what they get nearer the lake. 
almost woody.—J. А. б.) 
even look at it ; 
Its roots are strong and 
40. ANDROPOGON EUCOMUS, Nees; Steud. Syn. Gram. 390. So determined in App. 
Speke's Journ. 652. 
Hab. 5° S. lat., alt. 3960 feet, Col. Grant ! 
4.48 feet high, with a cottony flower. Collected in February, in a marsh at 5? S. lat., alt. 3960 feet, — 
JA. G.] x : 
Al. ANDROPOGON, Sp. an 4. altissimus, Hochst. ?— 4. Sulvicomus, Hochst. ; Steud. 
Syn. Gram. 384. | 
