93 
Sabra District, Selenka, on dry spots in wet meadows, 2750 m., 
and at Debra Eski, in dry grassy places, 2870 m., Schimper 398 ! 
Schoa, Ankober, Roth 62! Uganda; Mount Elgon, common 
on open ground in the bamboo zone, 2600 m., Dummer 3614! 
British East Africa; near Lamoru, Linton 215! and near the 
same place in low bush at 3000 m., Scheffler 294! Nairobi, 
Dowson 185! Tanganyika Territory: West Usambara 1600 m., 
Eichinger 3294. 
Melle (see above) has pointed out that Kikuyu grass in the 
presence of water will put on top-growth and attain to a height 
of 21-3 ft. A specimen from the Groenkloof Botanical Station 
(H. D. Agr. 19059) shows such a drawn up shoot (Fig. 4). It is 
about 1 ft. long, with 11 or 12 leaves, and the 6th and 7th inter- 
nodes measure 5 and 6:5 cm. respectively; the corresponding 
sheaths are roughly of the same length, whilst their blades 
measure 18 and 23 cm. respectively, by about 5 mm. when 
unfolded. The accompanying flowering specimens stand 5 cm. 
above the ground, with about 7 leaves and blades 3-7 cm. long. 
The flowers are as in all the allied species protogynous 
(Figs. 1, 2). Reduction to a functionally femule condition’ is 
characteristic of all the cultivated specimens from the Transvaal 
as far as I have been able to examine them, and it also occurs 
in those collected by Roth at Ankober; but whilst the anthers of 
the cultivated specimens were quite devoid of pollen, those from 
Ankober contained beside some empty pollen grains numerous 
pollen-mother-cells which had not got beyond the stage of 
division and were loosely scattered through the anther which 
had dehisced. 
1 and 2. Flowering branches in the female (1) and male stages (from 
Lamoru, Scheffler, 294). 3 and 4. owering (3) and a barren (4) shoot 
5. A whole inflorescence of a 
eis * 
(7) and upper (8) floret. 9. Valvule of upper floret. 10. Rudimentary 
stamens and ovary of a female plant. 11. Part of a@ cross section 
(including midrib) of a blade of Pennisetum clandestinum. 12. Same 
of Cynodon Dactylon for comparison. 
VIII.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Wauisam ALEXANDER TaLBot.—This well-known and much 
esteemed Indian Forest Officer died on July 23rd, 1917, at the 
Chateau de Rougemont, near Chateau d’Oex in Switzerland. 
Appointed to the Indian Forest Department in 1875, he attended 
the Nancy Forest School and went out to India in 1876. His 
service there was all in the Bombay Presidency where he rose 
to be a Conservator of Forests in 1901. He early came into 
touch with Kew through his “ Trees, Shrubs and Woody Climbers 
of the Bombay Presidency,” published in 1894, and through the 
numerous excellent specimens which he continued to contribute 
to the Kew Herbarium up to the time of his retirement in 1909. 
