390 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Grootfontein and Lane, Liyhtfoot, 12733 ! ; between Tsumeb and 

 Bobos (Dinter) ; Otjisondu (Dinter). 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Brit. East Africa, Rhodesia, Port. East 

 Africa. 



3. B. ramosa, Stapf. F.T.A. 543. 



Damaraland : Tsumeb, in quartz gravel on Okongawa Mt. near 

 Ovikokorero (Dinter). 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : India and Cape Verde Islands. This is 

 more likely to be the following species. 



4. B. Rautanenii, Stapf. F.T.A. 513 (Panicum Rautanenii, Hack.). 

 Ovamboland : Cunene banks, in water, Barnard, 17 ! ; Olukonda, 



Rautanen (type) B. Rautaneni, see F.T.A. 513. 



5. B. regularis, Stapf. F.T.A. 544. 



Ovamboland : Omaseru to Ondonga, bushveld, Barnard, 16486 ! 

 GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : French Sudan, Nubia, Angola, Zanzibar, 

 N.E. Transvaal, and Madagascar. 



6. B. xantholeuca, Stapf. F.T.A. 541. 



Ovamboland : Omaseru to Ondonga, bushveld, Barnard, 16460 ! ; 

 Olukonda, Schinz, 139 ; Onjodjahere, Schinz, 474. 

 GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Northern tropical Africa. 



v. PASPALUM, F.C. 313; F.T.A. 14. 



1. P. scrobiculatum, Linn, var. Commersonii, Stapf. F.T.A. 573. 



Ovamboland : Cunene banks, Barnard, 20 ! 



An erect growing annual generally regarded as food by the natives 

 of India, but it is by no means a wholesome article of diet, and 

 suspicious cases of cattle poisoning have been connected with this 

 grass. 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Widely dispersed through the tropics of 

 the Eastern Hemisphere. 



vi. UROCHLOA, F.C. 418; F.T.A. 15. 



1. U. triehopus, Stapf. F.T.A. 589. 



Ovamboland : Mafa, Barnard, 16508 ! Damaraland : Namutoni, 

 Barnard, 16485 ! ; Otjivero, between Gobabis and Windhoek, 

 Gittman, 16449 ! 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : French Sudan, Kordofan, Southern 

 Abyssinia. 



