2 
West Troricat Arrica: Sierra Leone; without precise locality, 
- jasvomsiaa R. Clarke, Schén. French Guinea : San, Chevalier, 2217 ; 
Kourous u, Pobéguin, 490. Togoland, Pifslu: Kersting. Miveria : 
Saints ws, Elliot, 195; Zaria, Lamb, 53; Niger Province, Yates, 29. 
An account of the economic uses and value of this grass a been 
published in the Kew Bulletin for 1915, pp. 383-386.—O. Sra 
Fic. 1, ligule; 2, part of a raceme with the puiselets removed ; 3, spikelet, 
abaxial face ; 4, the same, adaxial face ; 5, upper glume; 6, valve of lower (barren) 
floret ; 7, upper floret, face view wit "palea of lower floret in at ont; 8, the same 
seen from behind; 9, ‘fruiting spikelet ; 10, grain. All enlarg 
