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Piate 2640. 
CHLORIDION CAMERONI, Stapf. 
GRAMINE®. Tribe PANICcER. 
Chloridion, Stapf (gen. nov.). Spicule parvee, 2 valves, lanceolate, 
aristate, a dor mpresse, decidue, geminate, inequaliter pedicel- 
late, secunde in fF iaains oe racemorum digitatorum, rhachilla 
subnulla.  Gluma_ inferio _ su inuta, hyalina 
palea amiformi minutissima ; super Beer Fidesieme pra 
mutica, tenuiter 3-nervis, papyracea "Pal ea florem g subtendens 
2-nervis, cxeterum eius valve simili Lodicule 0 tamina 
Ovarium oblongo-ovoideum ; styli ima basi connati, longi, — i 
stigmata sub apice spicule ipso exs Caryo nota. 
Gramen perenne. Folior amine lineares, plane ; hina Ey 
mbranacer. Racemi 4-6, digitati, suberecti. Spicule numerose, 
congeste, bicolores. 
C. Cameroni le (species unica). Culmi erecti 2-3}-pedales, 
glabri, striati, 6-7-nodi, internodiis superioribus interdu m_ breviter, 
summo longius exsertis. Foliorum vagine subcompresse, striate, 
inferiores dense pilose, superiores glabrate ; ligule ciliolate ; Jamine 
lineares, longe attenuate, acute, ad 8 poll. long, 2-4 lin. late, utrinque 
subadpresse, pilose, pilis post ligulam longiusculis densis, nervis 
numerosis arctis, marginibus cartilagineis ns angen Racem 4 48, 
graciles, stricti vel flexuosi ; axis dorso ‘plana, 4 lin. lata, gri ponent 
vel pallescens, minute puberula, in marginibus setae "posvoel i seabri- 
duli, longiores ad } lin. longi. Spicule lanceolate, acu ute, —1 lin. longe 
(arista empta), axi adpresse vel oblique erecte. Gluma (superior) 
ovata, acuta vel peices $ lin. longa, pallida, pleramque 1- nervis. 
alva sterilis dorso griseo viridis vel pallescens, scaberula, apicem 
versus 2-carinata, carinis specs spinuloso-ciliolate, a arista aa cillima, 
Seepe violacea, 3-5 lin . longa ; valva fertilis oblonga, subacuta, $- —| lin. 
longa, chartaceo- membranacea, levis, brunnea vel fusca marginibus 
hyalinis aria tenuiter 3-nervis, nervis sub apice anastomosantibus. 
Anthere A; in. longe. Styl $ lin. longe ; stigmata 4 lin. longa, 
sue 
RITISH CENTRAL AFRIcA: Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 407 ; 
ras Nyasa, Whyte ; Namasi, Cameron, 15 (coll. of 1899), 
