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Distr. Nubia, Sudan. 



Latipes senegalensis, Kunth., Hook, f., I.e. 97 ; Duthie, Fodd. 

 Grass. N. Ind., 22. 



Golis Range, Drake- Br ockman, 93, 108, 206. " Found near 

 water at Burao, but in very small quantities." — Appleton. 



Sporobolus variegatus, Stapf sp. nov. ; affinis S. festivo, 



Hochst., sed spiculis paulo majoribus, glumis tenuissimis angustis, 

 valva tenuiter hyalina obtusissima distincta. 



Culms very slender, glabrous, upper 3 internodes shortly 

 exserted from the sheaths. Leaf-sheaths (only the 2 uppermost 

 known) very tight, smooth, very finely striate ; ligule a fringe of 

 very short hairs ; blades linear, long, tapering to a fine point, up 

 to 2 em. long, up to 2 mm. wide (flattened out), glaucous or pale 

 green, with scattered very fine tubercle-based hairs in the lower 

 part. Panicle ovoid, lax, 6-9 cm. long, about 3 cm. wide ; rhachis 

 very slender with long scattered very fine hairs ; branches paired 

 or the lowest 3-nate, the upper frequently solitary, capilliform, 

 2-5-1-5 cm. long, the lowest divided from the base, the others 

 from 3-6 mm. above it, ultimately like the secondary branchlets 

 almost divaricate ; pedicels extremely fine, up to 5 mm. long. 

 Spikelets lanceolate, 1-8-2 mm. long, variegated. Glumes linear to 

 linear-oblong, subacute or obtnse, very narro w, the lower almost 



1 mm. long, the upper slightly longer, very delicate, white, 

 hyaline, nerveless. Valve elliptic-oblong, very obtuse, almost 



2 mm. long, hyaline, obscurely 1 -nerved, purple at the base, 

 otherwise almost colourless or white. Palea as long as the valve ; 

 keels smooth. Anthers over 1 mm. long, purple. 



" Found occasionally in small quantities between Bohotle and 

 Upper Sheikh. A poor feed.''— Appleion. 



S. fruticulosus, Stapf, sp. nov. ; S. Ghikae, Schwf. & Volck., 



affinis esse videtur, sed laminis glabris, vaginis eciliatis, paniculae 



ramis fere semper solitariis, pluniis longioribus distincta; a 



b. somalensi, Chiov., culmis ramosissimis, paniculis brevibus, 



pedicellis brevissimis, glumis inaequalibus undique asperulis 

 differt. * 



Culms much branched, hard, slender, 10-15 cm. high, suffrute- 

 scent, quite glabrous. Leaf -sheaths tight, glabrous, smooth ; those 

 of the persistent parts of the culms and of the innovation-buds 

 very firm and persistent ; ligule a fringe of short hairs ; hlades 

 tapering almost from the base to a long, very fine point, 1-3 cm. 

 long, 1-2 mm. broad at the base, pale green, minutely asperuloas 

 above, sometimes with a few extremely fine long hairs from close , 

 above the ligule, otherwise glabrous. Panicle oblong to ovoid, 

 3-4 cm. long, ultimately open and up to 2*5 cm. wide, rigid; 

 branches filiform, usually solitary, the longest somewhat over 

 1 cm. long, when mature spreading almost at right angles, divided 



from 2-3 mm. above the base, rough ; pedicels in douse clusters at 

 th a ^n a r,t iu„ u 1___ . , , ... . . spikelet* 



very 



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lanceolate, whitish or purple at the base, 1-5-1*75 mm. long. 

 Glumes lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute or subobtuse, minutely 

 asperulous all over, lower 0-75-1 mm. long, nerveless, upper 

 1-1-4 mm. long, faintly 1-nerved. Valve oblong, subobtuse, 1 to 



